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According to the authors of the comment published in Nature, the ‘integrated assessment models’ (IAMs) addressing climate change and used by both scholars and policy makers need improvements. Nowadays IAMs combine insights from climate science and economics to estimate how industrial and agricultural processes might be transformed to tackle global
According to the authors of the comment published in Nature, the ‘integrated assessment models’ (IAMs) addressing climate change and used by both scholars and policy makers need improvements. Nowadays IAMs combine insights from climate science and economics to estimate how industrial and agricultural processes might be transformed to tackle global warming. However, the authors warn the scientific community that the computer models that analysts use to assess routes to achieve such goals are missing a crucial factor: politics.
The group of political economists and IAM specialists identified eight key areas in which insights from their disciplines can improve models’ relevance for real-world policy and investment choices. They also assessed numerous potential reforms, so that researchers can examine the trade-offs between making models tractable and making them more useful for real-world decisions.
