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The purpose of IAMC Annual Meetings is to:

• present and discuss the state of the art in integrated assessment modeling;
• review the status of ongoing community activities including both multi-model studies and the activities of the IAMC Scientific Working Groups;
• facilitate interaction with collaborating communities;
• evaluate and revisit the priorities of the integrated assessment community.

The IAMC Annual Meeting is a scientific meeting intended for peer sharing and vetting. The meeting is open to all registered participants. Researchers from organizations involved in integrated assessment modelling and their research collaborators are warmly encouraged to attend. The meeting is designed to allow researchers to share developments in methods, models and data. Participants are expected to be able to freely discuss their work.

For copyright reasons, recordings of any kind are prohibited without prior written consent of the presenter and the organisers.

Attendees may not capture or use materials presented during the meeting, including unauthorised material broadcasted or made available in the Annual Meeting website by the meeting organisers, without written permission of the presenter.

Views and opinions expressed during the meeting are those of the individual participants and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the IAMC or any other institutions.

Call for abstracts

The abstract submission is closed.

The IAMC solicits abstracts for oral and poster presentations on the following selected research topics:

1. NATIONAL – Assessment of national mitigation strategies. This session will focus on assessing the effectiveness and consequences of climate policies at the national scale, including the implementation of nationally determined contributions, net-zero targets and mid-century strategies.
2.  DEEP – Analysis of deep mitigation strategies. This session will focus on (the consequences of) mitigation scenarios aimed at stringent mitigation targets consistent with the Paris Agreement.
3. INTERNATIONAL – International climate policy. This session focuses on the implementation of international climate policy in the context of UNFCCC, including the use of flexible instruments (Art. 6).
4. DEMAND –  Efficiency, lifestyle change, sufficiency and regrowth. This session will focus on modelling energy demand and the role of efficiency improvement. Attention will also be paid to the role of behavioral change, degrowth and its representation in IAM models. Finally, submissions may investigate the consequences of digitalization.
5.  ENERGY – Energy supply-sector analysis. The section will investigate the advanced analysis of electricity and hydrogen production (including system integration) and the use of these energy carriers in end-use sectors.
6. INDUSTRY – Industry and Circular Economy. Integrated assessment of pathways to carbon neutrality in individual sectors in industry and circular economy. This session also focuses on emerging IAM analysis on the effectiveness of CE strategies, and the material flows through the human economy.
7. SECTORS – Transport and buildings. Integrated assessment of pathways to carbon neutrality in individual sectors, including industry, transport, and building. The Paris Agreement requires carbon neutrality around the middle of the century. This session will look into mitigation pathways for individual sectors to reach zero emissions.
8.  CDR – Carbon dioxide removal and nature-based solution. This section looks into promising carbon dioxide removal techniques (CCU, BECCS, DACS, and others) and the implications of using these.
9. NON-STATE –  Analysis of the contribution of non-state action. Modelling subnational mitigation strategies (non-state actors). More-and-more attention is given to mitigation action by non-state actors, including businesses and cities. This session will focus on the IAM analysis of their contribution.
10. JUSTICE – Climate justice (including equity and distributional impacts). Analysis of distributional aspects of mitigation strategies (both at the international and national scale) and the development of just transition strategies. The support for mitigation strategies often depends on the (perceived) fairness of strategies. In this session, we will look into the distributional and fairness aspects of mitigation strategies related to IAM analysis.
11. FEASIBILITY – Feasibility and transition analysis. This section will focus on the representation of socio-technical transitions in IAM research (including institutional change) and issues related to feasibility. Specifically, it will address how to combine insights from social-technical transition research, insights on institutional change and governance and IAM modelling. One of the relevant topics here can be dealing with different forms of feasibility (technical, economic, and social or political).
12.  WATER – Water. This session will consider analysis on topics like water scarcity and water pollution.
13. ECONOMY – Economic analysis and climate finance. This section focuses on the economic aspects of mitigation and adaptation strategies and risks associated with climate impacts. This also includes climate finance. But also integrated approaches to mitigation, adaptation, and impacts together. One other type of analysis in this category may include the analysis of different policy instruments.
14. IMPACTS – Impacts of climate change (including representation of the climate system).  This session will focus on modelling climate impacts in integrated assessment models. Special attention will be paid to the representation of adaptation in IAMs. Impacts of climate change, such as those on agriculture, energy systems or wider. The session will also look into the representation of the climate system itself (including small climate models and emulators).
15. METHODS – Methodological advances in IAM research. This session will specifically look at various methodological issues related to IAMs, including open science and uncertainty analysis. This may also involve model validation, programming languages presentation tools, model solvers, representation of complex policies and model evaluation.
16. WELLBEING – Human well being and health. This session will focus on the representation of human well-being and health in IAMs.
17. LAND – Land, agriculture, and forestry. This session will focus on strategies related to land-related sustainable development problems, including biodiversity conservation, land degradation and climate change.
18. SUSTAINABLE – Sustainable development. This section will focus on the assessment of Sustainable Development Strategies, including scenarios aiming to reach multiple SDGs and analysis of the energy-water-land nexus.
19. TRADE – Trade and security. There are several relationships between climate policy and trade. The crises of the last few years have also increased attention to security issues. Several new climate policies do directly relate to trade aspects.
20. SSPs – SSPs, new baseline scenarios and representation of shocks. This session is looking for updates and extensions of the SSP scenarios in various areas and across scales, such as developing national and regional scenarios and their association with appropriate SSP domains. At the same time other new scenarios and focus on the representation of shocks are also welcome.
21. OTHER. This allows for submissions not related to the topics above.