“Sixteenth IAMC Annual Meeting 2023

Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy

The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) announces the Sixteenth IAMC Annual Meeting to be held on November 14-16, 2023 at the Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy. The event will take place in person, with a portfolio of online events as part of the programme. Presentations in oral sessions (keynote sessions, and parallel oral sessions) will be held in person, with attendance both in person and online.
Two kinds of poster sessions are planned: fully online and fully in person. Presenters in fully in-person sessions can present their posters also at the fully online sessions if they wish so. In-person sessions will be organised according to the local time zone (CET). The IAMC will take steps to mitigate the inconvenience this may create for participants residing in regions with different time zones, for example by making session recordings immediately available to participants for a certain period of time.

 

• • • Annual Meeting Purpose
    • Call for abstracts
    • Submission guidelines
    • Registration
    • Participation grants
    • Important dates
    • Information

 

Annual Meeting Purpose

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

1. 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 (Article 6).
   4. DEMAND. Demand-side mitigation, including lifestyle change and degrowth. 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. CARBON. 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.
   7. SECTORAL. Sectoral transition pathways. 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. CIRCULAR. Circular economy. Analysis of circular economy concepts and their consequences for greenhouse gas mitigation. IAMs have typically focused on energy supply and demand changes as part of mitigation strategies. Reducing material use via resource efficiency, recycling, and reuse can indirectly lead to energy demand reductions. This session focuses on emerging IAM analysis on the effectiveness of such strategies, and the material flows through the human economy.
   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. ECONOMIC. Economic assessment analysis of climate policy. This session will focus on new work on the economic consequences of mitigation and integrated approaches to mitigation, adaptation, and impacts together. This could cover work on cost-benefit analysis, the social cost of carbon, and the integration of impacts on process-based IAMs.
   12. ADAPTATION. Adaptation and mitigation (synergies and trade-offs). Effective climate policy includes both adaptation and mitigation elements. A critical question is how these interact and how to identify possible synergies and trade-offs.
   13. FINANCE. Climate finance. This section focuses on the financial aspects of mitigation and adaptation strategies and risks associated with climate impacts.
   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. This session will also focus on (small) climate models and emulators used in or in conjunction with IAMs to represent the carbon cycle and climate system dynamics.
   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. POLICY. Policy instruments for transition pathways. This session will focus on the analysis of policy instruments (such as financial instruments, standards, and information) – including their effectiveness, efficiency in different sectors and policy situations.
   17. LAND. Land, agriculture, and forestry.This session will focus on the pros and cons of land-based mitigation measures such as bioenergy, reforestation and avoiding deforestation, as well as the specific role of the agriculture and forestry sectors.
   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. STAKEHOLDERS.Presentation of results and stakeholder interaction (including art collaboration). This session will focus on novel ways to present IAM results and scenario assumptions. This includes new visualization techniques and more comprehensive art or design-based methods of presenting IAM knowledge. It will also focus on the interaction between stakeholders and IAM research. Legitimacy is an important requirement for good research.
   22. TRANSITION. Transition scenarios. 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).
   23. OTHER. Other. This allows for submissions not related to the topics above.

   The Annual Meeting organising committee will assign topics to parallel sessions and poster sessions based on the number and quality of submitted abstracts. Poster abstracts on other topics different from the selection will also be considered.”…

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