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News from member institutions and from the wider integrated assessment community.

New community documentation portal released

The Model Documentation and Transparency working group has released a rebuilt documentation portal, with a common structure for describing model scope, versions and assumptions.

Overshoot Conference 2026: Launch of Call for Abstracts

When? November 24 – 25, 2026 Where? Beijing, China Hosted by Tsinghua University and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Submission Deadline: August 21, 2026 We’re pleased to share that abstract submissions are open for the Overshoot Conference 2026. Following the success of the inaugural Overshoot Conference in Laxenburg, Austria

Call for SEP Working Group members

Finally, a SEP Orchestration Working Group has formally commenced under the ICONICS steering committee. The working group is chaired by Jonathan Moyer, Vanessa Schweizer, and Bas van Ruijven, and currently includes the following members: Marina Andrijevic, Alex de Sherbinin, Kris Ebi, Carole Green, Inga Menke, and Ethan Sullivan. The group

Special Issue in Futures and July iEMSs Workshop

The SEP is pleased to call for papers to our Special Issue on “Socioeconomic futures frameworks for motivating actions for sustainability” in the journal Futures. We are soliciting scholarly contributions that articulate constructive ideas and improvements, moving beyond mere critique to offer robust structural paradigms (or components of paradigms) for

Horizon Europe Call HORIZON-CL5-2027-01 will open on November 2026

The Horizon Europe call HORIZON CL5 2027 01 will open on 17 November 2026 and includes opportunities for IAM related research, such as: HORIZON CL5 2027 01 D1 13: Next generation scenarios for informing climate and sustainability transitions HORIZON CL5 2027 01 D1 09: Assessing the performance of policy instruments to…

UPTAKE CDR Forum

A Stakeholders’ community to share CDR information and discuss it among different CDR communities and stakeholder groups is activen within the UPTAKE project. Join the community

Call for abstract: Session “Coupling Prospective LCA and Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment” at MCV 2026 – Lille, France, 25-26 Nov 2026

Abstract submission for a session on coupling prospective LCA and Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment (AESA) at the MCV 2026 conference is open. The deadline for submissions is April 14, 2026 at 10:00 (UTC+1). The session is co-chaired by Bastien Pais (ENAC) and Félix Pollet (Institute for Sustainable Aaviation). This session aims to explore

SCI Launches the Scenario Compass: A New Global Emissions Scenario Database

After three years of development, the Scenario Compass Initiative (SCI) has officially launched the Scenario Compass — a comprehensive database featuring more than 1,500 global emissions scenarios. The platform includes scenarios assessed in IPCC AR6, as well as newly published scenarios developed since its release. In addition to the dataset itself, the Scenario Compass provides

Call for Scenarios for the Fifth National Climate Assessment Report of China (NCA5-China)

The author team of the Fifth National Climate Assessment Report of China (NCA5-China) is soliciting national-level climate and decarbonization scenarios to support the assessment’s evidence base. To ensure the widest possible representation of modeling perspectives, IAMC is pleased to share this call with the global integrated assessment modeling community. Background

Updated SSP “Basic Drivers” and a new SSP Scenario Explorer

For the past 10 years, the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) have been a central tool of scenario development and policy analysis. The “Basic Drivers” (GDP & population projections) have now been updated by the teams at IIASA (Samir KC et al.) and the OECD (Rob Dellink et al.) to reflect

CALL FOR PAPERS – International Energy Workshop

The 44th edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be hosted by the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 22-24, 2026. The IEW is a leading conference for the international energy modelling community. In a world of environmental and economic constraints, energy modelling is an

Special Issue related to ECEMP 2025

Submissions for the Special Issue related to ECEMP 2025 are now open! ECEMP is organising a Focus Collection in Environmental Research: Energy (EREN), titled European Energy Transition and Society: Moving Towards Implementation, and designed to bring together a broad community of researchers and practitioners working on Europe’s energy and climate transition. All the information

Call for papers “Constructing futures through climate modelling” – Extended deadline

Call for papers: Constructing futures through climate modelling Extended Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 Guest editors: Chris Groves Swansea University, Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy Department, Swansea, United Kingdom Alaa Al Khourdajie Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Béatrice Cointe The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI), Paris, France Natasha

Second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change | AAR2

Is it possible to write an IPCC-style assessment for a small country? We just did! 200 researchers from over 50 institutions spent more than three years working on an “Austrian IPCC report“, an assessment of the literature on climate change impacts as well as adaptation mitigation options at a national

Expression of Interest: Development-Focused Socio-Economic Projections (DSPs)

The NEWPATHWAYS consortium would like to use development-focused socio-economic projections (DSPs) as input for a new set of global mitigation pathways. If you are developing or considering to develop such projections, please get in touch with us. We would like to explore with you the possibility of using your DSP

Overshoot Conference 2026: Launch of Call for Abstracts

When? November 24 – 25, 2026 Where? Beijing, China Hosted by Tsinghua University and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Submission Deadline: August 21, 2026 We’re pleased to share that abstract submissions are open for the Overshoot Conference 2026. Following the success of the inaugural Overshoot Conference in Laxenburg, Austria

Call for applications – Science and Management of Climate Change

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) are accepting applications for two advanced postgraduate programs: the PhD Programme and the 2nd-level Master of Research in Science and Management of Climate Change. These programs provide interdisciplinary training to equip researchers and professionals with expertise in

Brazil’s New NDC Highlights the Critical Role of IAMs and the BLUES Model

Brazil has taken a significant step forward in its climate action by updating its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). Announced on November 13th, the new NDC outlines ambitious targets for 2035 and charts a path toward the nation’s long-term goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. A noteworthy element

Horizon Europe project CHOICE launched its ambassadors program

Horizon Europe project CHOICE launched its ambassadors program to raise awareness and engagement in sustainable food systems. CHOICE aims to mainstream Integrated Assessment Models by embedding behavioural change and actor heterogeneity, and increasing their outreach to citizens, communities and industrial actors. Learn more and apply! For more information, check out

SHAPE Scenario Explorer released

The scenario results from the SHAPE project, coordinated by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), have been published in a new scenario explorer. The interactive web tool, developed by the Scenario Services team of the IIASA Energy, Climate and Environment program in collaboration with researchers from the SHAPE

Call for paper: Advancing universal access to affordable, clean, and reliable energy in Africa

This call for papers aims to address critical gaps in energy access and sustainability in Africa, inviting contributions that propose innovative solutions, highlight successful case studies, and provide insights into policy and technological advancements. Guest editors: Dr. Yang Liu, senior energy economist, World Bank, Washington D.C., USA. yliu41@worldbank.org Dr. Taoyuan

Invitation: Online REMIND introductory workshop in November 2024

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) will held an online REMIND introductory workshop in November 2024, which, for the first time, is open to external users. The workshop will be conducted over three sessions, providing an overview of the model’s content along with a technical examination of the code

Peking University hosted Second Integrated Assessment Model Training Workshop on August 16, 2024

Peking University concluded its Second Summer Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) Workshop for Carbon Neutrality on August 16, 2024. This five-day workshop, co-hosted by the Institute of Carbon Neutrality(IAMC member institute) and the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, attracted nearly 30 young scholars from over 20 prestigious universities and research institutions worldwide.

Scenarios Forum 2025, University of Leeds UK, 16-18 July

The Scenarios Forum 2025 is an influential multi-disciplinary conference organized by the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and the University of Leeds, building on the successes of previous forums in Denver (2019) and IIASA (2022). Dedicated to advancing the use of socioeconomic scenarios in addressing some of the most complex and interconnected challenges of

Aligning the Energy Transition with the Sustainable Development Goals

This open access book brings together concrete analyses from around the world, spanning various scales, that shed light on strategies for implementing essential energy and climate transitions within the broader context of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) imperatives. Specifically, the book exemplifies the advancement, adaptation, and utilization of energy systems

Call for applications for the Master in Science and Management of Climate Change

The Master of Research in Science and Management of Climate Change from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is a 1-year programme aimed at creating experts capable of managing the complex and multi-faceted dimensions of the grand challenges posed by climate risk by integrating the scientific and socio-economic aspects in

Report on energy transitions to achieve India’s net-zero targets

A meeting was held for the launch of the report titled “Synchronizing energy transitions towards possible Net-Zero for India: Affordable and clean energy for All” prepared by IIM Ahmedabad as part of a study project which was sanctioned in November 2021 by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to

ScenarioMIP for CMIP7 proposal for open review and comment

Over the past year, the ScenarioMIP co-chairs Brian O’Neill, Claudia Tebaldi, and Detlef van Vuuren have worked alongside the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) to develop the proposal for a new generation of climate scenarios for CMIP’s seventh phase, CMIP7. On June 20-22, 2023, the first meeting of the ScenarioMIP project under CMIP7 was held in Reading, UK.

TRANSIENCE – TRANSItioning towards an Efficient, carbon-Neutral Circular European industry

The need to approach climate action, resource efficiency, and circularity performance as integrated, economy-wide, cross-cutting issues is growingly gaining attention in the policy world, stimulating the development of new industrial policies in Europe and worldwide. Currently, however, there is little progress in conceptualising the circular economy and understanding its interactions

China-US teams celebrate the launch of GCAM-China-v6 in Beijing, China

On Friday, March 15, 2024, three member institutes of the IAMC — Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland — celebrated the launch of GCAM-China-v6 in Beijing, China. This launch marks a significant milestone in development of an open-source model, GCAM-China-v6, symbolizing

WILIAM model: new release

The Group of Energy, Economy and Systems Dynamics (GEEDS) of the University of Valladolid is happy to announce the release of WILIAM 1.3 BETA (available for Vensim software). This is the last version of the WILIAM model in Vensim to be released within the framework of the LOCOMOTION project. Despite this project ended

Advancing participatory energy systems modelling

Energy system models are important tools to guide our understanding of current and future carbon dioxide emissions as well as to inform strategies for emissions reduction. These models offer a vital evidence base that increasingly underpins energy and climate policies in many countries. In light of this important role in policy formation,

Tomoko Hasegawa wins the JST 5th Brilliant Female Researchers Award

In Japan, the percentage of female researchers is low, as is the participation of women in research and development. In response, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) established the Brilliant Female Researchers Award (Jun Ashida Award) in 2019 to recognize female researchers who are conducting excellent research and other

CoCO2 Hot spot emission detection

CoCO2 project web-based interface aims to a collection of published studies on satellite identification of hot-spot emissions. The tool provides an online repository of studies in the peer-reviewed literature about the use of satellite data to detect and estimate hot-spot emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). Its purpose

GENIE CDR Knowledge Hub

IIASA, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Aarhus University launch new knowledge hub about Carbon Dioxide Removal options to address climate change. The path to climate neutrality needs to explicitly consider the role of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and negative emissions

New just pathways for biodiversity from the RAINFOREST project

The new deliverable from the RAINFOREST Project proposes the draft narratives of new, just pathways able to halt or reverse the ongoing global biodiversity decline through transformative change in the EU food and biomass nexus between climate action, production, trade, consumption, and human behaviour. The project team very much welcomes feedback on this first milestone! One of

Paris targets within reach by aligning, broadening and strengthening net-zero pledges

Many countries have recently announced the ambition to reach net-zero emissions targets. In their new research, Dr. Ioannis Dafnomilis, Prof. Michel den Elzen, and Prof. Detlef van Vuuren explore the climate and energy transition impacts of the following strategies using the IMAGE integrated assessment model: 1) implementing the pledged 2030

PROVIDE Climate Risk Dashboard

The PROVIDE Climate Risk Dashboard is an interactive online tool providing detailed information on different future global warming scenarios and expected impacts on the climate, natural, and human systems. It allows users to explore future climate change impacts and (un)avoidable risks from cities to the global scale. The tool has

New release of the socioeconomic projections of the SSPs (version 3.0)

Dear SSP user community, We are happy to announce the release of new socio-economic projections of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP 3.0). The new release is the result of widespread collaborations within the scientific community over the last two years with the objective to update the basic elements of the

Scenarios in IPCC assessments: lessons from AR6 and opportunities for AR7

Scenarios have been an important integrating element in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the understanding of possible climate outcomes, impacts and risks, and mitigation futures. Integration supports a consistent, coherent assessment, new insights and the opportunity to address policy-relevant questions that

News: Wolfgang Lutz and Keywan Riahi appointed as ISC Fellows

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis recently announced that its Interim Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, and IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, member of the IAMC Scientific Steering Committeem have been selected as Fellows of the International Science Council (ISC). The Fellowship is

News from NAVIGATE Project

The H2020 NAVIGATE project, aimed to develop the next generation of IAMs, is coming to an end now and we have relevant research results to share. 1. NAVIGATE synthesis report “How to achieve a rapid, fair, and efficient transformation to net zero emissions – Policy findings from the NAVIGATE project”,

WorldTrans – Transparent Assessments for Real People

WorldTrans is designed to address four specific objectives: (1) To build new communities of integrated assessment modeling experts and users (citizens and stakeholders alike), based on a transparent approach to integrated assessments; (2) To unpack and quantify the potential importance of including heterogeneous human behaviour in integrated assessment models, (3)

GTAP Conference – Call for Submissions

The 27th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis “Enhancing Global Food System Sustainability” will be held at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA on 5-7 June 2024. The goal of the GTAP conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular

Peking University Launches China’s First Integrated Assessment Model Training Workshop

In the backdrop of China’s heightened focus on carbon neutrality, Peking University marked a significant milestone in this Fall. The Institute of Carbon Neutrality, one of the most recent IAMC members, initiated its first-ever workshop on integrated assessment models, designed to foster interdisciplinary knowledge and innovative solutions in the realm

ACHIEVE – Achieving High-Integrity Voluntary Climate Action

ACHIEVE is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme and includes 12 institutions. ACHIEVE’s main aim is to identify opportunities to strengthen and scale up high-integrity voluntary climate action to contribute towards achieving net- zero emissions by mid-century in the EU and globally, informed by a robust

EDGAR database new release

EDGARv8.0 is the second product of the new EDGAR Community GHG emissions database, which is the outcome of an agreement between JRC and IEA to work more closely to gather and provide consistent harmonised CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion. EDGARv8.0 provides estimates for emissions of the three main greenhouse

ENGAGE project Summary for Policymakers published

The ENGAGE project on Feasibility of Climate Scenarios has published its Summary for Policymakers, collecting the main policy-relevant insights from the research. The three key insights of this global research consortium of 30 partners are: 1. Limiting overshoot creates multiple long-term benefits. Even though higher investments would be required on

CMIP7 Data Request: Call for Impacts and Adaptation realm paper co-authors

The CMIP Data Request Task Team are seeking to work with community representative leads in the impacts and adaptation realm, and engage with the wider impacts, adaptation and climate services communities. This work is one of a set of realm papers which will develop a collection of harmonised variables on which to build the CMIP7 data request.

Survey for MOPO

The Mopo project combines component tools producing input data to create model-ready datasets, scenario and workflow management, and medium and long-term energy system planning. It aims at the creation of an open, accessible, and well-performing energy system modelling toolset to serve European public authorities, network operators, industry and academia in

Call for input: Industrial Removal Certification Methodologies

On the 30th of November 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a voluntary framework to reliably certify high-quality carbon removals. To ensure the quality and comparability of carbon removals, the proposed regulation establishes four QU.A.L.ITY criteria, which are explained in more detail in the accompanying Impact Assessment: Quantification:

R&D 100 Awards Acknowledges NREL Innovations

R&D World magazine presented the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with two of its annual R&D 100 Awards for research innovations. Given annually, the R&D 100 Awards honor the 100 most innovative technologies of the past year and are chosen by an independent panel of

Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP) update: take part in the review process!

Dear colleagues, As you know, the modeling community is currently preparing an update of the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP). As a first step, we are conducting a review process of the basic drivers of the SSPs: projections of GDP and population (including education by age cohort and gender). You can

ACCREU – Assessing Climate Change Risk in EUrope

ACCREU has the following specific objectives: Co deliver a comprehensive, integrated, updated and co designed assessment of climate risks across sectors, countries, sub national regions under different climate and socio economic scenarios while considering distributional consequences across households and business type…

Survey: What is your cooling solution?

Share your personal experience in dealing with excessive heat in less than 1 minute As an increasing number of people are coming to terms with excessive heat across the globe and heatwaves are on the front page of every newspaper, The Cooling Solution is a scientific project that uses photography

Call for papers: Climate Change and Human Well-being in the Global South

Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of human well-being – secure shelter, clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food, and livelihood opportunities. These can be direct impacts of climate change on physical well-being (such as impacts from climate extremes) and mental health (through stress and conflict), or indirect

Call for Tenders at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, France

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is launching this Call for Tenders for sourcing one or several services providers to undertake and support modelling work to be conducted in the context of the Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches. The selected provider(s) will provide ex-ante, sector-specific, model-based estimates

Credibility gap in net-zero climate targets leaves world at high risk

Global climate policy is undergoing a rite of passage. What used to be a conversation about ambitious target setting now focuses increasingly on implementation and interventions to achieve these targets. This liminal transition from ambition to implementation is complex and presents deep ambiguities that are challenging for scientists to communicate

JRC Study: Demography and Climate Change

The world population has reached 8 billion, and will continue to grow for the next 40 years, while the European population is ageing rapidly and is expected to start shrinking in 2026. This is happening in parallel with rapid changes in our climate. A new Joint Research Centre (JRC) study with accompanying video explores

Earth’s Future call for Papers

Earth’s Future is a transdisciplinary, Gold Open Access journal examining the state of the planet and its inhabitants, sustainable and resilient societies, the science of the Anthropocene, and predictions of our common future through research articles, reviews and commentaries. Several calls are now open. More information

Laura Cozzi is the new IEA Director of Sustainability, Technology & Outlooks

The IAMC congratulates Laura Cozzi, member of the IAMC Advisory Council, for her appointment at the International Energy Agency (IEA) as the new Director of Sustainability, Technology & Outlooks. She brings with her 20+ years of IEA service, & has been vital to much of the work to accelerate the energy

DIAMOND – Delivering the next generation of open Integrated Assessment MOdels for Net-zero, sustainable Development

Recent literature has underlined the interplay among climate mitigation, adaptation, and finance, as well as between climate action and other development agendas, including sustainable resource use, human development and equity, and environmental pressures. Despite the significant evolution of integrated assessment models (IAMs) in the last decade, there remain several criticisms

Energy & Climate Change Call for Papers: National Decarbonization Strategies

The Paris Agreement calls on the world to achieve an emissions pathway that limits global warming to well below 2C—and it sets up a process by which individual countries formulate national strategies to achieve high-ambition climate targets for both near-term and mid-century timelines. This process has prompted the delivery of

EU Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change official website

The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change has just launched its official website. The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change is an independent body providing the European Union (EU) with scientific knowledge, expertise and advice relating to climate change. The Advisory Board evaluates policies and identifies actions and

STITCHES emulator

Climate models are a main source of future climate information, but they are extremely expensive and slow to run. Studies concerned with the effects of climate change on human and natural systems often need climate information for emissions trajectories not run by climate models. Previously, emulators have attempted to create

Workshop on SDG modelling – “The Future of the SDGs.”

The workshop on SDG modelling, titled “The Future of the SDGs“, will take place on July 3-5 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The workshop will bring together researchers and modelling teams to discuss the achievement of the SDG agenda and explore the possible implications for the SDGs beyond 2030. This workshop builds

Future Earth Invites Nominations for Horizon Scanning Editorial Board

Future Earth invites nominations for experts to join an Editorial Board for a horizon scanning to identify the knowledge gaps and research priorities on climate change and biodiversity science to inform the development of Horizon Europe’s 2025-2027 work programmes. Experts with a broad outlook from Future Earth’s Global Research Networks

OECD Call for Tenders: Purchase of certified carbon credits

The International Energy Agency will be issuing within the coming months a Call for Tenders for the purchase of high-quality carbon credits, in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as part of its effort to become Net Zero by 2024. All credits will need to have a strong

ENBEL Conference: Connecting Health and Climate Change, Stockholm – Sweden

Climate change is already impacting health in multiple ways and is undermining determinants for good health, such as clean air and water, food, safe shelter, and economic opportunities. The transdisciplinary conference on Connecting Health and Climate Change brings together researchers, experts, policy makers, and NGO and private sector representatives, from

New damage curves and multimodel analysis suggest lower optimal temperature

Economic analyses of global climate change have been criticized for their poor representation of climate change damages. Here we develop and apply aggregate damage functions in three economic Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) with different degrees of complexity. The damage functions encompass a wide but still incomplete set of climate change

EEIST Report: New economic models of energy innovation and transition

This new report represents a major effort to demonstrate the value of new economic modelling to policy questions relevant to the low-carbon transition. Through 15 real-world, global, regional and national case studies, developed in partnership with policy stakeholders, the report demonstrates how new economic modelling approaches can deliver crucial insights

Circular Carbon Economy Index 2022

There is an urgent need to align global carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions with climate-safe trajectories. A broad range of technologies and approaches are needed to achieve this cost-effectively and equitably. The circular carbon economy (CCE) concept provides a holistic, flexible, and pragmatic framework for countries to plan

Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs)

The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are new core diagnostic reports that integrate climate change and development considerations. They will help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and boost adaptation, while delivering on broader development goals. CCDRs build on

EYE-CLIMA – Verifying Emissions of Climate Forcers

EYE-CLIMA is a Research and Innovation project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme. The project is coordinated by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) and involves 17 partners in 8 European countries. The Global Stocktake, and the success of the Paris Agreement, hinges on the

Political Economy of Net Zero: India

India is largely dependent on fossil fuels to meet its energy requirements and imports are an important part of such supply. Sectors like power and transport have shown significant progress in terms of the transition, while others, such as industry, building, waste and forestry have just begun the process. The

Modeling nuclear energy’s future role in decarbonized energy systems

Increased attention has been focused on the potential role of nuclear energy in future electricity markets and energy systems as stakeholders target rapid and deep decarbonization and reductions in fossil fuel use. This paper examines models of electric sector planning and broader energy systems optimization to understand the prospective roles of

IAM COMPACT – Expanding Integrated Assessment Modelling: Comprehensive and Comprehensible Science for Sustainable, Co-Created Climate Action

Neither the first round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) nor currently implemented climate policies are on track to meeting the Paris Agreement’s objectives. Net-zero targets embedded within aggregated long-term strategies can arguably deliver on the temperature goal of 2°C, but they still feature considerable feasibility concerns. Countries are expected to

Request of input to frame the US National Nature Assessment (NNA)

In the U.S., a Federal Register notice was recently released announcing a request for information on the National Nature Assessment. This request is an opportunity to submit comments to inform the framing, development, and use of the National Nature Assessment. To increase our knowledge of nature in the United States

Material and energy requirements of transport electrification

The replacement of internal combustion engines by electric vehicles (EVs) is being promoted towards the decarbonisation of the transportation sector. EVs require important amounts of materials, some of which are being assessed as potentially critical in the future. In this work, partially developed under the LOCOMOTION project, the authors develop

ECEMF Third Research Policy Workshop

Third Research Policy Workshop December 7th 2022, 9:30-12:30 (CET), online Register to Attend! Are you interested in directly shaping the research agenda of the European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum? As part of the upcoming research policy workshop, ECEMF is seeking policymakers, experts, and stakeholders with expertise in the following areas:

Changes in IPCC Scenario Assessment Emulators Between SR1.5 and AR6 Unraveled

The IPCC’s scientific assessment of the timing of net-zero emissions and 2030 emission reduction targets consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C rests on large scenario databases. Updates to this assessment, such as between the IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR1.5) of warming and the Sixth

MIT Tool for Air Pollution Scenarios (TAPS)

The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change launches its Tool for Air Pollution Scenarios (TAPS), which can be used to estimate the likely air-quality and health outcomes of a wide range of climate and air-quality policies at the regional, sectoral and fuel-based level. The related

NAVIGATE Exchange Programme – Call for Applications

H2020 NAVIGATE project provides the opportunity to perform an exchange programme to early and mid-carrier researchers from within or outside the consortium. The organizers encourage applicants from developing countries. NAVIGATE offers mobility grants for these abroad visits. Modellers and researchers will share experiences on IAM models, coding and development practices,

Climate Risk Dashboard

The PROVIDE climate risk dashboard is an interactive online platform providing detailed information on different future global warming scenarios and their expected impacts on the climate, natural, and human systems. It will eventually provide information on a suite of future climate impacts such as: extreme events, biodiversity loss, cryosphere loss,

CircEUlar – Developing Circular Pathways for an EU low-carbon Transition

CircEUlar, a four-year project funded by Horizon Europe, is aiming to develop circular pathways for a low-carbon transition in the European Union. Circularity involves changing our current economic, technical, and environmental systems in a way that eliminates waste and maximizes the reuse of resources. Building circularity through the adoption of

Call for scenarios by the EU Climate Advisory Board

The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change invites the wider research community to submit emissions scenario data that can support its work in advising the EU on policy measures, climate targets and greenhouse gas budgets. Similar to the process for the IPCC AR6 WG3, the EU Advisory Board seeks

World bank study – Carbon markets: Why digitization will be key to success

A cornerstone of carbon markets has been the Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. MRV is a multi-step process to measure the emission reductions achieved by a specific mitigation activity, report the findings to an accredited third party, and verify the reductions so they can be

Call for Decarbonization Scenarios for the U.S. National Climate Assessment

Co-authors of the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) Mitigation chapter solicit decarbonization scenarios as part of the U.S. National Climate Assessment. To get the widest possible selection of decarbonization scenarios, IAMC is happy to publicize this call for scenarios across its community. Please contact John Bistline (jbistline@epri.com) for questions

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction? At present, this is a dangerously underexplored topic. Yet there are ample reasons to suspect that climate change

Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground

The open access journal article by NDC ASPECTS’ Harro van Asselt and Peter Newell explores diplomatic and legal options for addressing the need to leave large swathes of remaining fossil fuels in the ground. To achieve the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal, fossil fuel production needs to undergo a managed decline.

MIT study: Getting the carbon out of India’s heavy industries

To address both climate and air pollution risks and meet its population’s escalating demand for energy, India will need to dramatically decarbonize its energy system in the coming decades. To that end, its initial Paris Agreement climate policy pledge calls for a reduction in carbon dioxide intensity of GDP by

PBL report: Achieving zero emissions in all sectors is a difficult task

Many countries have made a commitment to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by or around 2050. If some sectors have residual emissions, these must be compensated for by removing CO2 from the air and storing it. This can be done, for example, through large-scale reforestation or the use

IPCC AR6 preprint online open for discussion

While the IPCC’s physical science report usually assesses a handful of future scenarios, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Working Group III report (AR6 WGIII) on climate mitigation assesses hundreds to thousands of future emissions scenarios. A key task is to assess the global-mean temperature outcomes of these scenarios in a consistent

Affordable direct air capture: report from a MIT seminar

Direct air capture (DAC) technologies extract carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere. DAC and other carbon-removal technologies may play a key role in global and national efforts to achieve net-zero emissions economies in which the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere is equivalent to that being removed. Carbon removed from

IPCC climate-assessment Python package

Climate-assessment is a new Python package which can be used to go from emissions data to a temperature and other climate outcomes. It is intended to allow any modeller with an emissions scenario to run a simple climate model (FaIR, MAGICC, or CICERO-SCM) with IPCC AR6 methodology. The package is

Joint implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change mitigation and biosphere protection: Policy options for tackling multiple crises simultaneously

A decent living for all people and better protection of nature and climate aren’t conflicting targets, a new scientific analysis highlights. Development goals such as reduced poverty and inequality, better health and education, and a secure supply of food and energy on the one hand interact closely with stabilizing the

Developing scenarios in the context of the Paris Agreement and application in the integrated assessment model IMAGE: A framework for bridging the policy-modelling divide

The framework presented in this study aims to provide insights into how climate policy is represented in integrated assessment models, responding to the call to link model scenarios with concepts used in public policy literature and related fields. As such, it contributes to increased transparency leading to better understanding across

ETH ISTP launches the Carbon Removal Lab

The Institute of Science, Technology and Policy at ETH Zurich has just launched the Carbon Removal Lab. It conducts policy analyses addressing financing and acceptance challenges in the context of large-​scale CCS deployment. Specifically, the Lab addresses deployment challenges by conducting two projects on key policy design questions for Carbon Dioxide

A BC3 model helps understanding if Pays policies can be progressive

Two politically sensitive reforms The proposed Energy Taxation Directive (ETD) reform and extension of the Emissions Trading Scheme to buildings and road transport (ETS2) are two of the most politically sensitive elements of the European Commission’s Fit for 55 legislative package. On one hand, the proposals would significantly expand the

How not to interpret the emissions scenarios in the IPCC report

The recently released Report of the IPCC Working Group 3 (WG3) can be considered the definitive guide to halting global warming. A key means to understanding solutions are long-term emissions scenarios that describe how society could evolve towards low-carbon futures. Such scenarios are typically created by integrated assessment models (IAMs). In this

IEA Report: Sustainable Recovery Tracker

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis, governments worldwide have mobilised an unprecedented amount of fiscal support aimed at stabilising and rebuilding their economies – now around USD 18.2 trillion. Many countries have identified clean energy measures as a priority within their fiscal support measures. The IEA Sustainable

MIT selects five flagship projects on climate grand challenges

MIT has announced the five flagship projects selected in its first-ever Climate Grand Challenges competition. These multiyear projects will define a dynamic research agenda focused on unraveling some of the toughest unsolved climate problems and bringing high-impact, science-based solutions to the world on an accelerated basis. MIT Joint Program researchers

Representing Socio-Economic Uncertainty in Human System Models

When the 2015 Paris Agreement set a long-term goal of keeping global warming “well below two degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels” to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it did not specify how its nearly 200 signatory nations could collectively achieve that goal. Each nation was left to its own

Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021

Following record-level declines in 2020, near-real-time data indicate that global CO2 emissions rebounded by 4.8% in 2021, reaching 34.9 GtCO2. These 2021 emissions consumed 8.7% of the remaining carbon budget for limiting anthropogenic warming to 1.5 °C, which if current trajectories continue, might be used up in 9.5 years at 67%

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Working Group III report released

Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to

Open access GLOBIO website launched

GLOBIO calculates local terrestrial biodiversity intactness, expressed by the mean species abundance (MSA) indicator, as a function of six human pressures: land use, road disturbance, fragmentation, hunting, atmospheric nitrogen deposition and climate change. The core of the model consists of quantitative pressure-impact relationships that have been established based on extensive

Tallying Updated NDCs to Gauge Emissions Reductions in 2030 and Progress toward Net Zero

The Paris Agreement included two particularly crucial innovations for supporting greenhouse gas emissions reductions: a voluntary, bottom-up nationally determined contribution (NDC) and a ratchet mechanism. The latter change meant that, in the run-up to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

IEA Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2021

The global CO2 emissions and energy demand numbers are based on the IEA’s detailed region-by-region and fuel-by-fuel analysis, drawing on the latest official national data and publicly available energy, economic and weather data. Combined with the methane emissions estimates published by the IEA and estimates of nitrous oxide and flaring

A novel methodology for translating global scenarios into lifestyle implications at national and household levels

A paper has just been published introducing the ‘5Ds’ method for post-processing Integrated Assessment Model projections of sectoral energy demand for the global region to derive energy-service-specific lifestyle change at the household level. The paper illustrates the methodology for two energy services (mobility, heating) in two countries (UK, Sweden), showing how

Future energy: in search of a scenario reflecting current and future pressures and trends

A new study by researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and the Shell Scenarios Team projects that without a globally coordinated mitigation effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the planet’s average surface temperature will reach 2.8°C, much higher than the “well below 2°C” level to which the Paris

PROVIDE: Take part in the survey on adaptation planning

This survey is aimed to better understand the concept of overshoot in climate change adaptation planning, and is part of PROVIDE, a project which aims to deliver information on overshoot scenarios and respective impacts in the context of adaptation through an innovative webtool. It is funded by the H2020 scheme

1st NAVIGATE-CIRED International Summer School on “Equity and justice in transitions to net zero emissions societies – contributions from Integrated Assessment Modelling studies”

The 1st NAVIGATE-CIRED International Summer School on “Equity and justice in transitions to net zero emissions societies – contributions from Integrated Assessment Modelling studies” will be held on 4 – 8 July 2022 in Paris, France (in beautiful Jardin Tropical, our CIRED campus). The aim of the Summer School is

Defining a sustainable development target space for 2030 and 2050

The world is not on track to achieve all the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, and more insight into how we can get back on track is urgently needed. An initial exploration in the new article just published in the journal One Earth shows that, for the SDGs for which

2022 Keeling Curve Prize

Tthe 2022 Keeling Curve Prize application period has opened and is looking for active projects with a proven track record of reducing, avoiding, or eliminating greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Solutions across five categories including: Carbon Sinks (Natural & Engineered), Energy, Finance, Social & Cultural Pathways, and Transport & Mobility are awarded. The award

China’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategies and Pathways

This open access report Offers the scientific research and logic behind China’s 2060 Carbon Neutrality Pledge Explains on how China plan low-carbon development strategies, assume international responsibilities and obligations, promote and lead the process of global climate governance Presents comprehensive studies and analysis building on 18 sub-projects such as socioeconomic

IPCC distributes final draft of Working Group III report to governments

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has distributed the Final Draft of the Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) to governments. The final draft of the Summary for Policymakers has also been distributed for further review by governments. This is one of the final stages

EAERE Statement on the EU’s legislative proposals on climate change

The Policy Outreach Committee (POC) of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) prepared a statement on the EU’s legislative proposals on climate change that is presented for endorsement to the whole scientific community in Europe and worldwide. The statement has already been signed by POC members and

IAMC 2021: Complete Programme released!

The Programme of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Integrated Assessment Consortium (IAMC) is now available! IAMC 2021 will take place during the week of 29 November – 3 December 2021. Registrations will close on November 26th, 2021. The meeting is open to researchers from organizations involved in integrated assessment modelling

2022 GTAP Conference – Call for Submissions

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application. Related theoretical and applied work is also welcome. The overall theme of the conference is “Accelerating Economic

COACCH Climate Change Impact Scenario Explorer

The COACCH Climate Change Impact Scenario Explorer is conceived as a user friendly, non technical, intuitive tool to navigate and getting aquainted with the COACCH research. The COACCH (CO-designing the Assessment of Climate CHange costs) research project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation Program and is conducted by

EC launches a public consultation on Air quality – revision of EU rules

As clean air is essential for our health and that of the environment, the European Commission has launched a public consultation on air quality. The aim is to set standards that avoid the buildup of excessive pollution concentrations. As part of the European Green Deal, the EU is revising these

British Academy call for proposals on Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific

Funded by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. More about the programme This programme provides UK and internationally-based researchers at any career stage, and active in the humanities and social sciences, with the opportunity to submit proposals for in-depth studies focused on just decarbonisation transitions in the Asia-Pacific as

Call for papers: Special Issue Ecological Economics on “Evaluating Policy Packages for Low-Carbon Transitions”

Guest editor: Prof dr HRJ Vollebergh (Tilburg University and Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) Transitions and policy rationales Limiting global warming to no more than 2°C has become the de facto target for global climate policy. Such an ambitious target requires countries to introduce ambitious transition policies. Such dramatic emission reductions require

Reproducible figures of the IPCC AR6 WG1 SPM

The IPCC’s AR6 WG1 Report published last month contains a lot of useful data and figures for IAM research. The data is available at the CEDA Archive under a Creative Commons CC-BY license, but the formats are quite diverse and not easy to handle. To facilitate reproducibility and reuse of the scenario

Report: Getting to 30-60: How China’s Biggest Coal Power, Cement, and Steel Corporations Are Responding to National Decarbonization Pledges

The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA has published a report on “Getting to 30-60: How China’s Biggest Coal Power, Cement, and Steel Corporations Are Responding to National Decarbonization Pledges”. In September 2020, China announced its intentions to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality

New climate models needed for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios

A group of researchers call for new climate models which explore post-growth approaches, keeping economies stable without growth, while improving people’s lives. They point out that existing models, which are based on continued economic growth, gamble on dramatic and potentially unfeasible technological change to meet the Paris Agreement goals of

Call for papers: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences’ Special Issue

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences is actively seeking submissions which contribute to the global policy priorities represented by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for a Special Issue “Integrative approaches to the environmental and socio-economic SDGs” to be published in 2022. This special issue looks at the tools and approaches

A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda

In this study, the scientists present a Sustainable Development Pathway – a dedicated strategy that safeguards people from climate change while at the same time moving towards the targets of the SDGs. To this end, the scientists examined different areas of action, like food, energy or global and national equity,

PBL launches new digital experience on the potential of landscape restoration to address global sustainability challenges

Nature-based solutions (NbS) include land restoration actions such as agroforestry, grassland and grazing management, conservation agriculture, etc. that help to protect, restore and/or sustainably manage ecosystems. NbS are now receiving increased attention in the policy space owing to their potential to deliver a multitude of environmental and human well-being benefits

ENERGY SCENARIOS

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission published an interactive tool of modeling results supporting the European Green Deal. The aim of this tool is to explain how energy is produced and used in the EU, today and in the future. The tool helps to understand the magnitude and

Energy SSH Innovation awards Cristina Penasco and the DPET Tool

The Energy SSH Innovation Awards showcase the work of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in the Social Sciences and Humanities, in advancing energy research through exciting new methods, findings and engagements with policy and practice The Energy-SHIFTS project aims to support the contribution of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) to energy policy. The

World Bank Handbook on Emissions Trading in Practice

Currently, about 46 national jurisdictions and 35 cities, states, and regions, representing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, are putting a price on carbon as a central component of their efforts to reduce emissions and place their growth trajectory on a more sustainable footing. An increasing number

International Autumn School “Climate Policy and Energy System Transformation: New Opportunities and Challenges of the Consideration of Co-Benefits”

The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg and Forschungszentrum Jülich have launched an International Autumn School on “Climate Policy and Energy System Transformation: New Opportunities and Challenges of the Consideration of Co-Benefits”. The autumn school will be held September 13-17, 2021, and the deadline for the application is July 15, 2021. Climate

pyam: Analysis and visualisation of integrated assessment and macro-energy scenarios

The open-source Python package pyam provides a suite of features and methods for the analysis, validation and visualization of reference data and scenario results generated by integrated assessment models, macro-energy tools and other frameworks in the domain of energy transition, climate change mitigation and sustainable development. It bridges the gap between scenario processing and

Horizon Europe Cluster calls for projects are now open

The European Commission has launched the first calls for projects under Horizon Europe’s Work Programme for 2021-2022. EU funding of € 1.216,3 million in total is now available for Climate, Energy and Mobility topics. The projects will be selected for funding in a single-stage evaluation. Horizon Europe is the new

Limiting climate risks for finance: Central banks and IAMC researchers publish scenarios

To improve climate related risk management in the financial sector and facilitate a smooth transition toward a sustainable economy, over 90 central banks and financial market supervisors organized in the Network for Greening the Financial System joined forces with science. Together, various IAMC researchers and financial experts now published an

ECEMF – European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum

ECEMF is a Horizon 2020 funded project. The aim of the project is to establish a European focal point – the forum – for energy and climate researchers and policy makers to tackle the key challenge of our time – how to achieve climate neutrality. ECEMF will operate the first

Triple-A Database on Energy Efficiency Financing

The Triple-A Interactive Web-based Database is a visual representation of the most important aspects in energy efficiency financing, including the risks that could endanger the successful implementation of an energy efficiency project, the strategies that could mitigate these risks, the preferences of investors on energy efficiency investments, the financial performance

Evaluating process-based integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation

Process-based integrated assessment models (IAMs) project long-term transformation pathways in energy and land-use systems under what-if assumptions. IAM evaluation is necessary to improve the models’ usefulness as scientific tools applicable in the complex and contested domain of climate change mitigation. We contribute the first comprehensive synthesis of process-based IAM evaluation

Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress

Mitigation pathways by Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) describe future emissions that keep global warming below specific temperature limits and are compared with countries’ collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction pledges. This is needed to assess mitigation progress and inform emission targets under the Paris Agreement. Currently, however, a mismatch of

CMCC Climate Change Communication Award “Rebecca Ballestra”

The CMCC Foundation launches the CMCC Climate Change Communication Award “Rebecca Ballestra” to showcase, promote and award the best initiatives raising awareness on climate change, already available to the public. From journalism to arts, from data visualization to literature, from comics to music, theatre, radio, photographs, and any form of

MIT Climate Portal

The MIT Climate Portal is MIT’s central portal to all the work happening across the Institute on climate change, and a resource of the public that provides timely, science-based information about the causes and consequences of climate change — and what can be done to address it. Visit the Climate Portal for

COMMIT Project: Summary for Policymakers

The COMMIT project (Climate pOlicy assessment and Mitigation Modeling to Integrate national and global Transition pathways) was funded by the European Union. The COMMIT project’s main aim has been to improve the modelling of national low-carbon emission pathways and analysis of country contributions to the Paris Agreement’s global ambition. For

Call for papers: PEJEP Special Issue “Climate Change and the Energy Transition”

Prof. Francesco Vona (OFCE Sciences Po and CMCC), Prof. Marco Percoco (Bocconi University) and Prof. Guglielmo Barone (University of Bologna) are editing a special issue on “Climate Change and the Energy Transition” on Politica Economica: Journal of Economic Policy (ISSN 1120-9496). The Special Issue aims to collect empirical and theoretical

Imagining 2050 Toolkit

This toolkit offers guidance on futures thinking tied to more inclusive, equal, and reason based participation processes.

PhD programme in Science and Management of Climate Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and CMCC

Doctorate Coordinator prof. Enrica De Cian, Ca’ Foscari University enrica.decian@unive.it Department Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics The PhD programme in Science and Management of Climate Change is a joint initiative of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). The PhD programme offers a 4-year

Center for Global Sustainability joins Global Coal Countdown

The Center for Global Sustainability joins Bloomberg Philanthropy’s new Global Coal Countdown initiative as a key analytical contributor. Scenarios from the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) are featured on the new online data platform that tracks the retirement of coal plant units around the world and progress towards the Paris climate goals.

IAMs as a new subject area in Geoscientific Model Development journal

Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of the description, development, and evaluation of numerical models of the Earth system and its components. GMD has recently added Integrated Assessment Modeling among the journal subject areas. IAM encompasses modeling of the

Data Delivery System: the CMCC platform for obtaining and sharing climate data

Temperature, precipitation, ocean salinity, evapotranspiration, indicators: climate data relates not only to observations that represent our climate system in a specific location and time, but also to numerical models that simulate the climate of the past and the future. Data produced through research can feed further research, thus highlighting the

Master of Research in Science and Management of Climate Change – Open day

Open day April 8, 2021 | 12.30-13.30 Online (Zoom platform) Welcome Enrica De Cian, Coordinator of the PhD programme in Science and Management of Climate Change Professional profiles in a changing climate Andrea Maggiani, Managing Director of Carbonsink The Master in Science and Management of Climate Change Wilmer Pasut, Coordinator

Global Infrastructure Emission Database (GID) released

Global economic development is highly dependent on fossil fuels currently. The infrastructure worldwide emits a large amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants when generating and consuming fossil fuels, which has detrimental impact on climate change, air quality and human health. Considering their several-decade lifetime, the newly built highly

EAERE 2021 – Call for Thematic Sessions

The 26th Annual Conference of EAERE will take place from June 23th to June 26th, 2021. There will be two types of pre-organised sessions at EAERE 2021 for which proposals are now invited: (1) POLICY SESSIONS aim to advance the use of environmental and resource economics to support policy-making and to provide

European Commission launched inception impact assessments open for public feedback

The European Commission has launched open public consultations on forthcoming revisions to laws currently in force designed to limit the EU’s emissions of greenhouse gases: EU Emissions Trading System Effort Sharing Regulation Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation CO2 standards for cars and vans The inception impact assessments

Special issues on Energy and Climate Change: submission deadline postponed

With the delay in the IPCC submission deadline for Working Group 3, Energy and Climate Change has postponed the submission deadlines for the special issue on Net Zero Energy Systems and on Climate Impacts on Energy Systems and Adaptation Strategies to December 7. More information on these special issues can

New dates for COP 26

The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC was originally scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow, UK. On 28 May 2020, the COP Bureau has announced that it will take place from 1-12 November 2021, in Glasgow, UK. The change

Emissions Pricing for Development Programme just launched

Enviroment for Development (EfD) is launching a new collaborative program in 2020, the Emissions Pricing for Development Program, aimed at creating a global community for research and engagement with policy makers to make sure everyone has the capacity to carry out appropriate analyses and design effective policies that are also

2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards – Call for Applications

From 5 February until 30 April, organizations, cities, industries, universities, governments, and others taking bold leadership on climate change can nominate their work for a UN Global Climate Action award by submitting application here. The 2020 award will recognize climate action that is already achieving real results in three categories: Climate Neutral Now

NAVIGATE Exchange Programme – Call for Applications

NAVIGATE (NEXT GENERATION OF ADVANCED INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELLING TO SUPPORT CLIMATE POLICY MAKING) project aims at improving the capability of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), providing new insight on how long-term climate goals can translate into short-term policy action, and how countries and sectors can work in concert to implement the Paris

2020 EAERE Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics: Economic implications of climate change – Integrating the micro and macro dimension in data, modelling and approaches

THE SCHOOL The 2020 EAERE Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics will take place from the June 28th to July 4th at the campus of the Venice International University on the Island of San Servolo, Venice, located just in front of St. Mark’s Square. The School topic is the Economic implications of climate change

NAVIGATE survey on IAMs

Dear all, We are reaching out with a request to fill a short survey (10-12 min) on the good-practice examples and remaining challenges for ensuring robustness and legitimacy of models for climate policy assessment, including Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) and beyond. The survey should take about 10-12 minutes. It includes questions on robustness and

NAVIGATE-CIRED Summer School

6-10 July, 2020 at CIRED, Paris, France Topic: A just transition to net zero emissions societies – contributions from Integrated Assessment Modelling studies The aim of the Summer School, is to foster scientific exchanges between participants and faculty members about the issue of how to achieve a just and equitable transition

2020 International Energy Workshop – Call for Papers

The 39th edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be hosted by the Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg, Germany on 29 June – 01 July, 2020. The IEW is a leading conference for the international energy modelling community. In a world of environmental and economic constraints, energy modelling is an increasingly

Scenarios Forum Meeting Report

The Meeting Report from the Forum on Scenarios of Climate and Societal Futures, held in March 2019 in Denver, has been published online by the University of Denver and on the ICONICS website: www.iconics-ssp.org. The report was written by the Forum Scientific Steering Committee with many contributions from the community, including session organizers and meeting

Call for Policy and Thematic Sessions at EAERE 2020

Deadlines for submissions 23 December 2019 – Policy Sessions 31 January 2020 – Thematic Sessions Submit your proposal! The 25th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) will take place in Berlin from June 24th to June 27th, 2020. There will be two types of

IIASA researchers develop an open-source Python package for IAM scenario analysis and visualization

The open-source python package pyam provides a range of diagnostic tools and functions for analyzing and visualizing scenarios from your favorite integrated-assessment model(s). The package was initiated by Matthew Gidden and Daniel Huppmann at the IIASA Energy Program under the auspices of the IAMC. The first applications using the package were in support of the IPCC’s Special Report on

An inter-model assessment of the role of direct air capture in deep mitigation pathways

A new paper by CMCC, Imperial College London and University College Cork on Direct air capture has just been published in Nature Communications: Abstract: The feasibility of large-scale biological CO2 removal to achieve stringent climate targets remains unclear. Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) offers an alternative negative emissions technology (NET)