“We’re of course very glad to host such a high-profile meeting of the scientific community,” says Elmar Kriegler of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “Global integrated assessment modeling plays a central role in relating long term climate policy goals with near term mitigation action. It provided key information for the 5thAssessment Report of the IPCC and the UNEP Gap Reports.”
Participants include representatives of the European Commission, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the German Federal Environment Agency, China's Energy Research Institute, India's Energy and Resource Institute, the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies, academics from Stanford University (US), Tsinghua University (China), and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and members of leading international modeling centres from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Korea, Japan, and the US, among many more
The assessments are integrated in the sense that they combine various disciplines to understand the interaction of societal and economic development,, energy and land use, and natural systems. To this end, computer simulations are constructed, called models. They help to inform about different policy options and their likely effects.
Weblink to the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium: http://www.globalchange.umd.edu/iamc/
