Extraordinary Contributions to the Field of IAM

The Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the field of Integrated Assessment Modeling (ECA) is given for a specific extraordinary contribution during the past three years. It recognises those who have made outstanding scientific contributions to the field of IAM, and/or have made significant contributions to the IAM community formation, and/or have increased the impact of the IAM community. The prize is in principle awarded every year, but only if one or more awardees deserving the prize were nominated. The ECA can be given only once to a single person.

2025 Saritha Sudharmma VISHWANATHAN

2024 Massimo TAVONI

2023 Céline GUIVARCH

2022 Volker KREY

2021 Shinichiro FUJIMORI

2020 Roberto SCHAEFFER

2019 Kate CALVIN

2017 Brian O’NEILL

2016 Keywan RIAHI

2015 Leon CLARKE

2013 Elmar KRIEGLER

2012 Detlef VAN VUUREN

Nominations

Every year, a joint call for nominations is launched for the for the Lifetime Achievement Award (LAA), the Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the field of Integrated Assessment Modeling (ECA) and the Award for Early Career Researcher (ECRA). Nominations are open to all representatives of IAMC members, at an individual level (thus multiple nominations from members from the same institution are accepted). Self nominations are not accepted. Nominations are submitted confidentially to the Secretariat and will be treated as strictly confidential by the Evaluation Committee and the Secretariat. Nominations will be automatically disqualified in the event they are made public by the submitting party before a decision has been taken. Submissions include an explanation supporting the nomination.

Evaluating Committee

The LAA, the ECA, and the ECRA have in principle the same Evaluating Committee. It is constituted by seven members:

• the three previous ECA winners that are still active IAMC members;
• four members selected by the SSC amongst previous LAA and ECA winners that are still active IAMC members.

The SSC appoints a chairperson of the Evaluating Committee who will coordinate the selection process with the support of the IAMC Secretariat. The SSC will appoint the Evaluating Committee after that the call for nominations is closed. Appointments will be made considering the nominations collected and avoiding that members of the Evaluating Committee are nominees themselves and avoiding also conflicts of interest due to nominees and Selection Committee members from the same institute and/or the same region. The Evaluating Committee will assess the merits of the submissions for a given year, make a ranking of submissions received and evaluate whether the contribution of the top ranked candidate would merit the awards. At the latest one month before the annual meeting, the Evaluating Committee chair will send the Committee’s recommendation to the SSC either to not award the LAA and the ECA for the year, or to award it to the top-ranked candidate.

Scientific Steering Committee Endorsement

The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) will make the final decisions on the recommendation of the Evaluating Committee, and can still change the ranking or the evaluation to award or not to award the top-ranked candidate. This, however, should only be in exceptional cases. The SSC decision will be by majority. There can only be one LAA, one ECA and one ECRA per year. If a member of the SCC is proposed for the awards, this member is not informed about the recommendation of the Evaluating Committee and is excluded from any SSC deliberation on this matter.

Award Announcement

Awardees are announced at the Annual Meeting, during an Awards Ceremony taking place as a plenary session. The awardee is not informed in advance, but there may be exceptions. The announcement will be accompanied with a plaque and a written motivation.