First of all, thank you to all members of the community who contributed to the newsletter October 2025 edition! Please find below updates on the Eighteenth IAMC Annual Meeting and more. |
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 | Join Us for the IAMC Online Poster Festival – Oct 28–29, 2025! We’re thrilled to invite you to the IAMC Online Poster Festival, happening October 28–29, 2025, from 14:00–15:30 CET/Vienna. Check out the schedule and registration links here.
Reminder: Register Now for the 18th IAMC Annual Meeting – Online Participation Still Open! The Eighteenth IAMC Annual Meeting is just around the corner — taking place November 11–13, 2025! While in-person registration is now closed, you can still join us online for this exciting hybrid event. It’s a great opportunity to connect, collaborate, and explore the latest developments in integrated assessment modeling — all from wherever you are.
IAMC SWG on National Scenarios (NMSF Study) – UpdateWe would like you to the upcoming webinar scheduled for Wednesday, 5 November at 8:00 CET/Vienna and 14:00 CET/Vienna with Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan who will provide an update on the IAMC Scientific Working Group (SWG) on National Scenarios (NMSF Study). More...
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
1st Session: 8:00 CET/Vienna (zoom registration link)
2nd Session: 14:00 CET/Vienna (zoom registration link)
Venue: online Presenter: Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University (KU) and
Visiting Researcher, Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIMA) | | |
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| | | | The Horizon Europe project CAPABLE aims to provide recommendations for designing socially and economically acceptable climate policy measures for 2030 and beyond. More... | | |
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| | | | Join the upcoming series of European Institute on Energy and the Environment (EIEE) webinars on 3 Nov, 4 Nov, 25 Nov and 27 Nov 2025, featuring expert presentations on pressing climate and integrated-assessment modelling topics. More... | | |
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| | | | We are pleased to invite you to register for our upcoming NEWPATHWAYS webinar, where experts will discuss the shift of public export finance from fossil fuels to renewable and its role in shaping the global transition. More... | | |
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| | | | This study constructs nationally tailored (pledged and higher ambition action) least-cost pathways for 2030 to 2050 using PyPSA-BD/TH-IDS (Integrated Demand and Supply) developed for the purpose, coupling high-resolution spatial (30×30 km) resource availability with hourly system operation and validation against 2019 officially published data. More... | | |
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| | | | Integrated assessment and energy system models are challenged to account for societal transformation dynamics, but empirical evidence is lacking on which factors to incorporate, how and to what extent this would improve the relevance of modelled pathways. More... | | |
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Towards an open model intercomparison platform for integrated assessment models scenarios | | |
| The majority of scenarios in the IPCC database are generated by integrated assessment models (IAMs) and come from model intercomparison projects. Here we propose a transparent and inclusive platform that is open to anyone with an IAM regarding protocols development, scenario submissions and results evaluation. More... | | |
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| | In the last century, renowned economist William Baumol warned that economic growth could be limited by “stagnant” sectors—those with limited technological progress. In essence, our future prosperity hinges not just on what we’re good at, but on overcoming what we’re bad at. More... | | |
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2025 DDP Report: A Decade of National Climate Action: Stocktake and the Road Ahead | | |
| The Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP) network has recently released its annual network-level report for 2025 “A Decade of National Climate Action: Stocktake and the Road Ahead”. More... | | |
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Electric grid vulnerability and coal-dependent economies in Southeast Europe | | |
| Southeast Europe is undergoing a dramatic energy transition, while remaining heavily reliant on coal and aging grid infrastructure. Integrating higher shares of variable renewable energy (VRE) reveals and intensifies existing vulnerabilities without substantial infrastructure upgrades. More... | | |
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Navigating energy transition solutions for climate targets with minerals constraint | | |
| Urgent decarbonization is imperative, yet mineral scarcity may threaten low-carbon technology deployment, potentially challenging transition pathways. More...
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Within-country inequality and the shaping of just global climate policy | | |
| Climate policy design must balance emissions mitigation with concerns for fairness, particularly as climate change disproportionately affects the poorest households within and across countries. Integrated Assessment Models used for global climate policy evaluation have so far typically not considered inequality effects within countries. More... | | |
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Beyond the limit: The estimated air pollution damages of overshooting the temperature target | | |
| A new study published in Science Advances by CMCC shows that stringent climate policies designed to avoid temporarily exceeding 1.5°C warming could prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths while avoiding trillions of dollars in economic damages. More... | | |
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Linking models to analyse low carbon transitions | | |
| Linking existing models to extend energy system and integrated assessment analysis is an increasingly common practice. Despite this, and unlike in the field of environmental and earth sciences, little attention has so far been paid to the details of it, to the trade-offs involved and the way in which the model linking affects the interpretation of the outcomes of the interlinked model system. More... | | |
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How stocks judge COP's: Market impacts of climate conferences | | |
| International efforts to combat climate change almost inevitably entail relative earnings reductions for fossil fuel companies, and gains by renewable companies. This study investigates the relationship between climate change Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings and the stock market performance of selected publicly listed companies. More... | | |
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Linking models to analyse low carbon transitions | | |
| Linking existing models to extend energy system and integrated assessment analysis is an increasingly common practice. Despite this, and unlike in the field of environmental and earth sciences, little attention has so far been paid to the details of it, to the trade-offs involved and the way in which the model linking affects the interpretation of the outcomes of the interlinked model system. More... | | |
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| | Call for papers: Constructing futures through climate modelling | | |
| This Call for Papers for a special issue titled “Constructing Futures Through Climate Modelling”, inviting contributions that advance the role of climate- and integrated-assessment modelling in shaping future scenarios and policy frameworks. More... | | |
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