IAM COMPACT’s second policy brief Three Policy Responses to the Energy Crisis: The Co-benefits of Energy Efficiency, has successfully fed into the European Commission’s 2040 target planning process. The brief aims to provide insights into the trade-offs between different approaches to replacing Russian gas and their implications for energy sustainability, affordability, and emissions.

In August 2023, IAM COMPACT is organising a capacity-development workshop in Mombasa, Kenya to broaden ownership of the integrated assessment process, concepts and tools, and to support a locally- and demand-driven coherent policy formulation. The workshop will be hosted by RECCReC (Renewable Energy and Climate Change Research Centre) at the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM), with notable contributions by Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), and National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and is split into three parts aimed at students, policymakers and relevant stakeholders respectively.

For more information on the workshops and to register:

29 – 30 August 2023: Students workshop

31 August – 1 September 2023: Policymakers workshop

1 September 2023: Stakeholders workshop

You may read more here or visit the respective “News and Events” section on the IAM COMPACT website to view all upcoming events

IAM COMPACT partners will be participating in three modelling workshops planned in June and July 2023.

• Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) Annual Meeting 2023: The Joint Global Change Research Institute's next annual GCAM Community Modeling Meeting will be held June 6-8, 2023, virtually. The meeting provides a forum for the GCAM community to hear about the latest developments and current uses of GCAM. For those new to GCAM, this workshop continues to serve as an excellent in-depth opportunity to learn and gain a better understanding of the model.

• ICTP Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development: The ICTP Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development 2023 will be held in July (3-14/07/2023) and IAM COMPACT will be there to contribute to the teaching activities.

• Summer School on Integrated Assessment Models: The NAVIGATE and ENGAGE Η2020 projects are launching a Summer School on Integrated Assessment Models aimed at providing advanced training for young international scholars, advanced PhD students and early postdoc fellows, working on integrated assessment modelings. The Summer School will be organised by the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) and will take place at Lake Como, Villa del Grumello, from 3rd to 7th July 2023.

IAM COMPACT presents: ”Loss & Damage: it could be your turn next.”

Prof. Ioannidis Tsipouridis from Technical University of Mombasa and Prof. Haris Doukas from National Technical University of Athens in conversation with climate activists Omar Elmawi & Nakabuye Hilda F. on this critical issue.

Watch the conversation on IAM COMPACT’s YouTube channel, on World Environment Day, June 5th 2023, 11:00 CEST.

For more information, visit our website.

Our deep dives on climate policymaking topics beyond 2030 in the light of the Paris Agreement and associated challenges continue with a number of scientific outputs of relevance to the wider IAM COMPACT community.

Three key IAM COMPACT deliverables have been submitted and are publicly available since April 2023.

• From policy needs to scenario frameworks: The report outlines the first flow of activities carried out to produce guidelines to translate policy needs into scenario frameworks, by understanding the different types of climate and sustainability policies, and how they can be represented in the modelling of mitigation scenarios within the consortium. This involves categorising and linking policy questions to the IAM COMPACT modelling ensemble.

• Model interlinkages and integration: The deliverable provides an analysis starting from how different models and their capabilities are characterised, then uses such model typologies to link IAM COMPACT models to the preliminary research questions collected in the stakeholder mechanism before finishing with a discussion about the various issues that should be considered when designing the linking strategy. The aim of this work is to feed into the next steps of the scenario and research question development process, and to the development of a generalised model linking process flow for the second modelling cycle.

• Broad scenario logic: The report will be used as guidance for all modelling work taking place to address research questions in the first modelling cycle of IAM COMPACT. It also points forward to further work on harmonisation and management of model inputs and outputs that will be undertaken during 2023 and early 2024. It finally describes the role of a broad scenario logic and harmonisation of assumptions and input data in general and can thus be useful for other projects that will investigate a similarly diverse set of research questions or employ a similarly diverse set of models.

Check the available IAM COMPACT deliverables here.

Two IAM COMPACT scientific publications have been recently published!

• Van de Ven, D. J., Mittal, S., Gambhir, A., Lamboll, R., Doukas, H., Giarola, S., Hawkes, A., Koasidis, K., Koberle, A. C., McJeon, H., Perdana, S., Peters, G. P., Rogelj, J., Sognnaes, I., Vielle, M. & Nikas, A. (2023). A multi-model analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges. Nature Climate Change, 13(6). doi: 10.1038/s41558-023-01661-0

• Gambhir, A., & Lempert, R. (2023). From least cost to least risk: Producing climate change mitigation plans that are resilient to multiple risks. Frontiers in Climate, 5, 1149309. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1149309

Our flagship paper on Nature Climate Change has been featured on several news outlets, including:

• Bloomberg, in a conversation between lead author Dirk-Jan van de Ven (BC3) and climate reporter Zahra Hirji, and
• Nature Climate Change News & Views section.

The full list of IAM COMPACT scientific papers is available here.

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