Historically, global mitigation scenarios have often underrepresented national realities in many developing regions, especially countries in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. National scenarios and pathways are essential because they track national stocktake, benchmark collective progress and catalyse ambition through transparency. Creating a national scenario database can assist to improve data consistency and comparability across methods, models and countries.

The first study of IAMC SWG on National Scenarios has registered more than 120 teams, including national, global, regional, and subnational groups, representing over 50 countries making it one of the largest open modelling scenario intercomparison project.

Saritha will reflect and share her insights on the efforts taken to develop the national scenarios database and working with multiple modelling communities.

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2026
Time: 15:00 CEST/Vienna time
Venue: online webinar

Register for Zoom Webinar here: https://iiasa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mj3XHCkZThyf916qSO79Ww

Presenter:Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University (KU) and
Visiting Researcher, Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIMA)