Thanks to everyone who contributed to the newsletter August 2026 edition! Please find below updates on institutional highlights, publications and more.
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 | Reminder: Registration is now open for the 19th IAMC Annual Meeting in Athens, 17–19 November 2026 We were delighted by the response to our call for abstracts — with over 490 submissions received, this promises to be one of our largest and most vibrant meetings yet. We look forward to welcoming the community to Athens. Register here. | Upcoming IAMC Webinar: New Scientific Working Group: Justice, Equity and Human Development (JED) Date and time: November 6, 2026 | 15:00 CET | Online | Register Find out more about the working group here. | IAMC SWG National Scenarios Study 2
Building on the first IAMC National Model Scenario Framework (NMSF1) Working Group, we aim to expand the scope of this effort to cover current policies, NDCs, LTSs, and net-zero pathways.
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Invitation to contribute to community-wide review of Scenario Evaluation Criteria | Help shape transparent and community-agreed criteria for evaluating climate scenarios by reviewing the Scenario Compass Initiative’s proposed update and submitting your feedback by 21 September 2026. More... | Focus Issue in Environmental Research: Climate – Guest Editors from SPARCCLE, CROSSEU and ACCREU | Submit your research to the new focus issue on “Climate Risks and Socioeconomic Vulnerability,” exploring how climate hazards interact with inequality and place-based vulnerabilities—and how interdisciplinary and participatory approaches can support equitable adaptation—by 31 October 2026. More... | Reminder: Call for papers – Towards a Low Demand Economy (submission deadline: Sept 13th) | Submit your research by 13 September 2026 and join an interdisciplinary conference in Paris-Saclay on 1–2 December to explore pathways towards a low-demand, high-well-being economy within planetary boundaries. More... | | | The climate policy modelling protocol – Climate policy representation in integrated assessment models | A new study introduces the Climate Policy Modelling Protocol, a comprehensive framework for translating national climate policies into integrated assessment models and developing more realistic Current Policies scenarios. More... | The criticality of country-specific scenarios to inform transition risk assessment for the financial sector: A case study for India |
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Using India as a case study, this paper reveals the limitations of global NGFS scenarios for national financial risk assessments and calls for better-calibrated country-specific scenarios, stronger institutional capacity, and closer collaboration between financial institutions and modellers. More... | Broadly quantifying SSP elements for 188 countries to 2150 in International Futures | This study expands the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways with integrated projections of 188 indicators across 188 countries to 2150, offering a richer and more consistent picture of how demographics, conflict, governance, infrastructure, and human development could shape future climate mitigation and adaptation. More... | When do carbon markets reduce inequality? Article 6 transfers under alternative futures | Using alternative development futures, this study shows that carbon trading under Article 6 can reduce global inequality—but only when lower-income regions retain the capacity and comparative advantage to provide low-cost mitigation. More... | GCAM-Europe v7.2.0: enhancing policy-relevant climate modelling through spatial and sectoral detail | GCAM-Europe enhances policy-relevant climate modelling with detailed coverage of Europe’s energy, land, agriculture, water, and emissions systems, enabling integrated analysis of policies such as Fit-for-55 and their wider global impacts. More... | Overshoot pathways: reversible biophysical change, irreversible socioeconomic impacts | This study introduces a new framework for assessing the lasting impacts of temporarily exceeding 1.5°C, showing that adaptive capacity, inequality, and socioeconomic conditions are often more decisive than biophysical change in determining whether harm becomes irreversible. More... | NEWPATHWAYS Global Stakeholder Workshop II Summary | The NEWPATHWAYS workshop summary highlights how equity, finance, transparency, development priorities, and stakeholder co-creation can shape feasible and policy-relevant pathways towards 1.5°C and inform the 2028 Global Stocktake. More... | Designing the future of the world’s largest carbon market: Two studies provide a quantitative framework for determining both sectoral expansion priorities and enterprise inclusion thresholds for China’s national ETS | Two studies provide an integrated, data-driven framework for optimizing sectoral expansion and enterprise inclusion thresholds in China’s national emissions trading system, offering insights for building more cost-effective carbon markets worldwide. More... | Developing Meaningful Corporate Climate Transition Risk and Risk Management Metrics: A Framework and Path Forward | This publication presents a practical framework for developing meaningful corporate climate risk metrics, supporting more reliable disclosure, reporting, and risk management across utilities and other sectors. More... | Towards Comprehensive Economic Assessments of Climate Change Impacts | This review identifies critical gaps in current assessments of climate-related economic impacts and proposes an integrated, multi-scale modelling framework to better capture direct impacts, systemic spillovers, and adaptation needs from local to global levels. More... | Improving economic impact assessment of climate change with machine learning | This study explores how hybrid modelling and machine learning can strengthen climate–economic impact assessments by combining data with theory, connecting systems, and bridging micro- and macroeconomic scales. More... | | | Researcher in climate scenarios and their uncertainties at PBL
| Join PBL as a researcher in the EU-funded FUTURA project and help shape the next generation of integrated climate scenarios by analysing uncertainty, climate–society feedbacks, and pathways for returning to the Paris Agreement targets after an overshoot. More... | Two Research Opportunities in Nature Restoration Modelling at PBL
| Join PBL as one of two researchers advancing nature restoration in Europe—modelling its effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services with GLOBIO or assessing its benefits and trade-offs for food systems, climate, and the environment with IMAGE. More... | Academic Opportunities in Energy and Climate Change at BIT
| Join the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at Beijing Institute of Technology as a professor or postdoctoral researcher and advance high-impact research on energy, climate change, environmental policy, and integrated assessment modelling. More... |
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Overshoot Conference 2026 in Beijing: Abstract Deadline Extended |
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We’re pleased to announce that the submission deadline has been extended to 6 September. If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to be part of the conversation and contribute to shaping the scientific program. More.. | Webinar on Scenario Explorer and a CloudHub for Energy models | Join this webinar on 8 September 2026 to discover how the Scenario Explorer and Cloud Hub make energy system models easier to access, run, adapt, and apply through interactive demonstrations and real-world examples. More.. | Online Workshop on Energy Transition in the North Sea Region: Planning Outlook and Stress Testing the Energy System Integration | Join this webinar on 8 September 2026 to discover how the Scenario Explorer and Cloud Hub make energy system models easier to access, run, adapt, and apply through interactive demonstrations and real-world examples. More.. | CMCC Lecture: The financial risks of extreme environmental events | Join leading experts and stakeholders to explore how offshore wind, Nordic hydropower, grids, storage, and hydrogen can transform the North Sea from Europe’s fossil heartland into the engine of a clean, secure, and affordable energy system. The workshop takes place on September 15 from 2-4pm CEST. More.. | CMCC’S Climate Week NYC Webinars: 21- 25 September 2026 | Registration is open for CMCC’s four free online events at Climate Week NYC 2026, one of the year’s landmark moments for global climate action. More.. | CMCC Symposium: The acceleration of scientific revolutions. The case of climate sciences | The CMCC Symposium brings leading scientists, policymakers, and business leaders together to explore how AI and emerging technologies are transforming climate research. The two-day event will cover machine learning for Earth-system prediction, digital twins, climate and biodiversity, and pathways to carbon neutrality. More.. | Third Macro-economic Multimodel Intercomparison Project Workshop | Join the third macroMIP workshop in Athens or online on 20 November 2026 to explore the direct and indirect economic impacts of climate-related extreme events and shape the project’s next round of model experiments. More.. |
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