News
This research program was closed as of August 2018
Website content is current as of that date
Website content is current as of that date
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