DIAMOND partners took part in a Summer School on Integrated Assessment Models, which was organised by CMCC Foundation, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) as a synergy of EU-funded projects NAVIGATE and ENGAGE, at Lake Como, Villa del Grumello, on July 3-7, 2023.

The objective of the summer school was to create a community of young scholars from a broad range of disciplines (climate, ecology, economy, energy, political science) actively working on modelling human activities and the earth system in an Integrated Assessment Modelling framework.

Claudia Rhodes from BC3 participated in both the training and the interactive poster session.

More information on the conference can be found here.

On September 21-22, 2023, a two-day project meeting took place in Maastricht at the premises of the University of Maastricht (UM) to discuss aspects related to finance, labour, and consumer demand as well as to their integration in the DIAMOND ensemble of IAMs.

During the first day, colleagues from UM, led by Prof. Mark Sanders and Prof. Tania Treibich, had the opportunity to present their work so far, including the current status in each domain, as well as ideas for DIAMOND to go beyond the state-of-the-art. In particular, Prescott Morley (UM) discussed issues related to final demand in energy transitions and the heterogeneity and complexity as sources of frictions, Sasha Serebriakova (UM) took aim at the role of finance in the energy transition focusing on credit market frictions and imperfections, while Eoghan Michael O’Connell (UM) talked about labour in the energy transition delving into the impact of generation, switching, and mobility.

During the second day, it was the modelling teams’ opportunity to present their models and envisaged improvements on them in these directions, with Dr. Baptiste Boitier (SEURECO), Dr. Marc Vielle (EPFL), Dr. Constantinos Taliotis (CyI), Dr. Gabriele Cassetti (E4SMA), and Dr. Anastasios Giannousakis (ICCS-E3M) presenting NEMESIS, GEMINI-E3, CLEWs, OMNIA, and OPEN-PROM, respectively, and particularly focusing on synergies among these IAMs with the modules to be developed in the project for finance, labour, and consumer demand towards enhancing their capabilities.

More information about the workshop can be found here.

Earlier, DIAMOND actively participated in and contributed to the Joint Global Change Research Institute's (JGCRI) annual ‘GCAM Community Modelling Meeting’, which was held virtually on June 6-8, 2023.

The Meeting provides a forum for the GCAM community to share and promote the exploitation of the latest developments and current uses of GCAM. For those new to GCAM, the Meeting continued to serve as an excellent in-depth opportunity to learn and gain a better understanding of the model.

DIAMOND partners from BC3, UMD, and ICCS actively participated in the three-day workshop, paving the way for the introduction of GCAM-Europe, which was notably referenced as a promising next step to the community.

Colleagues Claudia Rhodes, Jon Sampedro, and Dirk-Jan Van de Ven (BC3) also presented their respective GCAM-related advancements in the poster session with the following studies:

• gcamreport: An R tool to Process and Standardise GCAM Outputs

• Residential Energy Demand, Emissions, and Expenditures at Regional and Income-decile Level for Alternative Futures

• Implementation of Current Policies in GCAM

More information on the conference and the model can be found here and here, respectively.

The above illustration was made by Jeffrey London, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Since July 2023, the DIAMOND project was acknowledged in three more scientific publications.

• Bailie, A., Pied, M., Vaillancourt, K., Bahn, O., Koasidis, K., Gambhir, A., ... & Nikas, A. (2023). Co-creating Canada's path to net-zero: a stakeholder-driven modelling analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 4, 100061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rset.2023.100061
• Koutsellis, T., Xexakis, G., Koasidis, K., Frilingou, N., Karamaneas, A., Nikas, A., & Doukas, H. (2023). In-Cognitive: A web-based Python application for fuzzy cognitive map design, simulation, and uncertainty analysis based on the Monte Carlo method. SoftwareX, 23, 101513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101513
• Gambhir A, Nikas A (2023) Seven key principles for assessing emerging low-carbon technological opportunities for climate change mitigation action. PLOS Climate, 2(7), e0000235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000235

You may find the full list of all papers published in the context of DIAMOND here.

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