IAM News
Recent news items for the Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) group are listed below.
- New paper helps explain how urban areas grow - Leiwen Jiang, Brian O'Neill
- Press Release - Brian O'Neill
- Nature Climate Change paper finds that Paris Agreement temperature and emissions targets are inconsistent - Brian O'Neill
- Paper describes ongoing development of U.S. state-level projections under the SSPs and provides a set of placeholder projections - Leiwen Jiang, Hamidreza Zoraghein, Brian O'Neill
- Climatic Change article introduces special issue on the Benefits of Reduced Anthropogenic Climate changE - Brian O'Neill
- New paper projects future population exposure to heat extremes, comparing alternative climate scenarios and demographic outcomes - Claudia Tebaldi, Brian O'Neill, Jing Gao
- Paper explores ways to improve poverty and inequality modeling in climate research - Bas van Ruijven
- Report on geosciences examines challenges and opportunities associated with converting scientific advances into societal benefits - Emily Laidlaw
- BRACE project explores world in 2100 under two different emissions scenarios - Brian O'Neill, Peter Lawrence, Xiaolin Ren, Ben Sanderson, Claudia Tebaldi, Matthias Weitzel
- van Ruijven appears on the Energy Transition Show podcast for an in-depth discussion of emission scenarios - Bas van Ruijven
- IAM researcher receives IOP Publishing Outstanding Reviewer Award - Matthias Weitzel
- New paper details methods for downscaling results of energy-economic models to the level of individual household types - Brian O'Neill, Bas van Ruijven
- ERL features paper on global population scenarios consistent with the SSPs in its Highlights of 2016 collection - Brian O'Neill
- Scientists aim for improved transparency in climate projections - Brian O'Neill
- Paper assesses IPCC reasons for concern framework for communicating scientific understanding about climate change risks - Brian O'Neill
- Jiang editor for newly released special issue on demographic differential vulnerabilitiy to climate-related disasters - Leiwen Jiang
- New paper quantifies economic responses to crop yield changes under different development pathways and climate scenarios - Xiaolin Ren, Matthias Weitzel, Brian O'Neill, Peter Lawrence
- New paper describes objectives, framework and experimental design of ScenarioMIP for CMIP6 future climate projections - Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi
- Food security report with IAM group participation wins USDA award - Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi
- Special issue on mitigation in Latin America published with contributions of IAM group - Bas van Ruijven, Xiaolin Ren
- Delayed emissions reductions could require 160 years of geoengineering to limit warming to 2°C - Brian O'Neill
- New spatial population scenarios produced for use in global change research - Brian O'Neill
- New paper argues scientists overly focus on low emission scenarios, leaving medium level scenarios under-studied - Bas van Ruijven
- Study finds Paris Agreement contributions alone insufficient to meet 2°C target - Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi
- Future population growth shapes wildfire risk more than climate changeLeiwen Jiang
- Study finds large CO2 emission mitigation potential for steel and cement industries, but carbon capture and sequestration is key - Bas van Ruijven
- New study finds that breakthroughs in CO2 abatement technologies can leave some countries worse off - Matthias Weitzel
- Assessment of population and climate literature identifies IAM paper as top cited in last decade - Brian O'Neill, Leiwen Jiang
- Authors respond to critique of paper on equilibrium climate sensitivity - Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi
- Global food system faces multiple threats from climate change - Claudia Tebaldi, Brian O'Neill
- New paper finds that solar energy can cool the global climate, though realistically not so much - Bas van Ruijven
- IAM Project Scientist named Founding Director for Institute for Asian Demographic Research - Leiwen Jiang
- New paper compares methods for including income distribution in global economic models for long-term climate change research - Bas van Ruijven, Brian O'Neill
- USGCRP workshop report calls for new U.S. population scenarios for use in national assessments - Brian O'Neill
- New paper examines sensitivity of regional climate to global temperature and forcing - Claudia Tebaldi, Brian O'Neill
- Exposure of U.S. population to extreme heat could quadruple by mid-century, according to new paper in Nature Climate Change - Bryan Jones, Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi
- New paper describes projected urbanization in Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) - Leiwen Jiang, Brian O'Neill
- Newly released paper on equilibrium climate sensitivity targets key uncertainty in projecting future climate change - Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi
- New paper on shared socioeconomic pathways presents narrative descriptions of future societal development - Brian O'Neill, Bas van Ruijven