Multiple pathways towards sustainable development goals and climate targets
The study presents three different sustainable development pathways, all of which avoid dangerous climate change and enable substantial progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The scenarios were quantified by four different modelling teams participating in the SHAPE...
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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,...
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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...
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New RE-CONNECT newsletter to provide regular updates on the latest guidance on GHG modelling, projecting and tracking
The RE-CONNECT project, funded by the European Commission DG Climate Action project, is dedicated to assisting the 196 Parties committed to the 2015 Paris Agreement, established under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, in meeting their climate change...
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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...
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CircoMod: circular economy modelling for climate change mitigation
With increasing populations and expanding wealth, global material consumption has seen a precipitous increase. These materials are often discarded after use (the so-called linear model). Moreover, the massive use and production of materials are also associated with the extensive...
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IIASA project: Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS)
The EDITS network brings together experts of various disciplines to regularly discuss about and engage in the multi-faceted energy demand research. The EDITS community works together based on common interest in interlinked topics, on transferring methodological knowledge, and on...
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Combining information from decadal predictions and climate projections to phase in climate variability
In the framework of the EUCP project, WP5 has been studying how information from decadal predictions and climate projections can be combined such that the advantages of each can be gathered without losing valuable information. One area of research...
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Scientists improving the ‘crystal ball’ for better climate predictions
What will Earth be like in 50 or 100 years? To make such predictions, the closest thing we have to a crystal ball is data. ‘Climate models help make sense out of the current state of the climate,’ said...
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EEIST project: new paper offering a theoretical framework
A new paper has just been published, led by Dr Jean-Francois Mercure entitled ‘Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal ‘ (Global Environmental Change). This paper demonstrates how governments can make better decisions when forming new policies for promoting...
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