CMCC Lecture: The financial risks of extreme environmental events – 22 September, 14.00 CEST
As climate extremes intensify, so do their economic consequences. Join Professor Gregory Characklis from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to explore how droughts, floods, heatwaves and storms are reshaping financial risk across key sectors. Discover advanced approaches to measuring,...
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The Equity and Efficiency of Carbon Taxation: A Multi-Model, Multi-Country Analysis
This paper examines the distributional effects of carbon pricing, with a particular focus on how different carbon tax revenue recycling mechanisms influence within-country inequality. It compares lump-sum transfers (equal per capita redistribution) and labor tax cuts across regions with...
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AGU FALL MEETING 2026 – Session GC089 “Multi-sector Dynamics: Energy-Water-Land Systems and the Role of Digital Technology, Computing, and AI Data Centres”
We invite abstract submissions to Session GC089, now in its 8th year as a flagship session of the MultiSector Dynamics community at AGU. This year’s focus is on how rapidly scaling digital technologies such as AI systems, data centers,...
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Exploring and Shaping International Futures
This Open Access book offers a structured approach to thinking about the future, covering local, global, and cross-sectoral perspectives. It begins by posing three fundamental questions: What futures are normatively desirable? What trajectories do current trends suggest? And how...
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Call for papers – Towards a Low Demand Economy
On 1-2 December 2026, the CIRED will organize an International Conference – and 16th FAERE Thematic Workshop – at Paris-Saclay (AgroParisTech campus) entitled ‘Towards a Low Demand Economy – policies, transformation pathways, macroeconomic reconfigurations and high well-being within planetary boundaries.’ The...
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Call for SEP Working Group members
Finally, a SEP Orchestration Working Group has formally commenced under the ICONICS steering committee. The working group is chaired by Jonathan Moyer, Vanessa Schweizer, and Bas van Ruijven, and currently includes the following members: Marina Andrijevic, Alex de Sherbinin,...
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Special Issue in Futures and July iEMSs Workshop
The SEP is pleased to call for papers to our Special Issue on “Socioeconomic futures frameworks for motivating actions for sustainability” in the journal Futures. We are soliciting scholarly contributions that articulate constructive ideas and improvements, moving beyond mere...
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Call for scenario submissions to the Scenario Compass Initiative — data in support of IPCC AR7
We are inviting modelling teams to submit their scenario data to the Scenario Compass Initiative (SCI), an open community database developed to support comprehensive and consistent scenario assessment. Scenarios submitted to the SCI are accessible to authors of the...
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Explainer: Scenarios for CMIP7
In a publication in Geoscientific Model Development (van Vuuren et al., 2026), the ScenarioMIP team describes a new set of global emissions scenarios that will form the basis for climate research as part of the ongoing phase of the...
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