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Tools & Visualization

Software the community uses to process, validate and visualise scenario data.

IAMC members are increasingly developing online and interactive tools to better communicate the findings of their research to policy stakeholders and the public. Below is a selection of recent outputs that present research findings in a variety of accessible formats. For information on some the modelling tools used and datasets produced by IAMC members, see also the Models and Scenario Databases pages. In the effort of providing a thorough platform on existing data on IAMs, a IAMC GitHub organization has been established. It allows to share and jointly develop source code of models and tools related to IAM research. GitHub complements the Zenodo IAMC Community for associated data sets. GitHub and Zenodo can also be used together to make releases of source code citable and via the Zenodo IAMC community easily findable by other IAM researchers. Finally, the IAMC YouTube Channel is a hub for videos and interviews to key people on IAM, in addition to IAMC Meetings'video recordings.

Tools

Software, packages and visualisation tools produced by the community.

CircEUlar project tool: Circular ReBoundary

Circular ReBoundary is a free online learning resource that helps businesses and organisations adopt circular economy practices effectively. Developed by CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change) in close partnership with T6 Ecosystem and other research partners of the CircEUlar project, this tool addresses a common challenge: ensuring that well-intentioned sustainability efforts and

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SEAS – Simulation and Emulation for Advanced Systems SEAS

The Simulation and Emulation for Advanced Systems (SEAS) is the only software that simulates and validates energy transmission and distribution solutions across the buildings, transportation and renewables sectors, and the grid. SEAS lets you test “what if” scenarios to de-risk your options, helping you confidently move from planning to implementation.

Fair Mitigation Finance Explorer

This tool accompanies Fairness considerations in global mitigation investments’ by Shonali Pachauri, Setu Pelz, Christoph Bertram, Silvie Kreibiehl, Narasimha D. Rao, Youba Sokona and Keywan Riahi. Published in Science (2022), .

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Carbon Monitor CO2

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the use of fossil fuels and the production of cement are the main driving force of climate change. Carbon Monitor is an international initiative providing for the first time regularly updated, science-based estimates of daily CO2 emissions. The data reveal the drop and re-growth of emissions

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Climate Watch Net-Zero Tracker NDCs

Climate Watch is an online platform designed to empower policymakers, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change. Climate Watch brings together dozens of datasets for the first time to let users

The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) ESMValTool

The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a community-development that aims at improving diagnosing and understanding of the causes and effects of model biases and inter-model spread. The ESMValTool is open to both users and developers encouraging open exchange of diagnostic source code and evaluation results from the Coupled

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LUISA – Land Use-based Integrated Sustainability Assessment LUISA

The LUISA Territorial Modelling Platform is primarily used for the ex-ante evaluation of EC policies that have a direct or indirect territorial impact. It is based on the concept of ‘land function’ for cross-sector integration and for the representation of complex system dynamics. Beyond a traditional land use model, LUISA

IAMConsortium Nomenclature package IAMC

This package facilitates working with data templates that follow the format developed by the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC). It supports validation of scenario data and region processing, which consists of renaming and aggregation of model “native regions” to “common regions” used in a project. It requires Python version >= 3.8.

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Nature-based Solutions platform NbS

Nature based Solutions (NbS) are actions that enable the protection, sustainable management and restoration of natural and managed ecosystems, that can simultaneously provide human well being and biodiversity benefits.

DPET – Decarbonisation Policy Evaluation Tool DPET

The INNOPATHS Decarbonisation Policy Evaluation Tool (DPET) is an online interface resulting from work carried out under the EU H2020 funded project INNOPATHS. Its main goal is to systematically synthesize in an easily searchable manner what is known – and what is not known – about the impact of different policies used to accelerate

Silicone Python package IAM

Silicone is a Python package which can be used to infer emissions from other emissions data. It is intended to ‘infill’ integrated assessment model (IAM) data so that their scenarios quantify more climate-relevant emissions than are natively reported by the IAMs themselves. It does this by comparing the incomplete emissions

Climate Action Tracker

The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of “holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.” A collaboration of two organisations, Climate Analytics and New Climate Institute, the

Spine Toolbox

Spine Toolbox is an open-source cross-platform application which provides means to define, manage, and execute energy system models. Spine Toolbox allows users to create a visual representation of tools, models and data combined together. In addition, the clear cut modularity of the tools and models within Spine Toolbox unleashes innovation

hector user interface for climate model simulation

Computer-based models are a fundamental tool used by Earth scientists to simulate and project alternate futures of the global environment. However, using traditional climate models generally requires mathematical expertise, a deep understanding of climate-related parameters, and advanced programming knowledge, all of which can take years to master and make interacting

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CEDS – Community Earth atmospheric Data System CEDS

The Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) uses existing emissions inventories, emissions factors, and activity/driver data to estimate annual country, sector, and fuel specific emissions over time. First a default emission estimate is developed using IEA energy statistics and emissions factors, mostly derived from GAINS (combustion), EDGAR (non-combustion) and CDIAC (for

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DDS – Data Delivery System DDS

The CMCC Data Delivery System (DDS) provides a unique, consistent and seamless access point for all data produced and used by CMCC through a unified API interface. The user can browse the Catalog and the available datasets through the DDS Web Portal and access and download data through the DDS API Python client.

GID – Global Infrastructure Emission Database GHGs

Global economic development is highly dependent on fossil fuels currently. The infrastructure worldwide emits a large amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants when generating and consuming fossil fuels, which has detrimental impact on climate change, air quality and human health. Considering their several-decade lifetime, the newly built highly

Global Energy and Climate Outlook visualisation

This interface displays results from the GECO reports in maps, bar charts and line charts for select scenarios. It includes socio-economic assumptions, energy system and power system projections by sector and fuel, and greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions projections. It is updated annually to reflect the latest GECO report.

PBL Climate Pledge NDC tool

The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean temperature increase to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit it to below 1.5 °C. To achieve this, 189 Parties have submitted Nationally Determined Contributions, so-called NDCs, outlining their post-2020 climate action. The PBL Climate Pledge NDC tool shows the

IAMC Tools IAMC

A collection of R tools provided by the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) for data analysis and diagnostics.

EnerOutlook

Interactive data software, allowing to browse data through intuitive maps and graphs, for a visual analysis of the expected long-term trends in the energy industry. All figures can be viewed either globally or by world region, with the interface providing robust forecasts on energy supply and demand (total primary and

Global Energy Statistical Yearbook

Interactive data tool for a visual presentation and analysis of the latest trends in the energy industry. It provides access to statistics on production, consumption and trade of oil, gas, coal, power and renewables, along with CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. The tool covers 60 countries and regions throughout the

Atlas of Climate Policy Barriers

This atlas presents the barriers and the challenges of climate policies which have been identified in the CD-LINKS project. This tool aims at communicating, to both lay and non-technical audiences, the major implementation challenges, hot spots and criticalities for guiding climate and sustainable development-related policy making. This tools has been tested and

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pyam – Analysis and Visualization of Assessment Models

The open-source Python package pyam provides a suite of tools and functions for analyzing and visualizing input data (i.e., assumptions/parametrization) and results (model output) of integrated-assessment scenarios, energy systems analysis, and sectoral studies. Key features: Simple analysis of timeseries data in the IAMC format (more about it here) with an interface similar

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Weather for Energy Tracker

The IEA and CMCC Weather for Energy Tracker is a new free platform showcasing weather-related data useful to understand, analyse and model the energy sector, from generation to use across sectors. Data is available both at the grid and country level, with a daily and monthly resolution from 2000 to the latest

Weather for Energy Tracker released by IEA & CMCC

The IEA and CMCC Weather for Energy Tracker is a new free platform showcasing weather-related data useful to understand, analyse and model the energy sector, from generation to use across sectors. Data is available both at the grid and country level, with a daily and monthly resolution from 2000 to

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Climate Policy Database

The Climate Policy Database collects information on currently implemented policies related to climate change mitigation from countries worldwide. The objective of the portal is to provide an open, collaborative platform for quick information access, policy analysis and good-practice sharing.

Energy Investment Tool

Low-carbon investments are necessary for driving the energy system transformation called for by both the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals, as investments are the ‘lifeblood’ of the global energy system. What are the scale and nature of these investments? This page summarises insights from a systematic evaluation of future

Global Hotspots Explorer

The Global Hotspots Explorer maps and presents information about impacts, vulnerabilities and risks arising from development, climate change in the water, energy and land sectors. State-of-the art models were used to assess the future trends of 14 indicators of development- and climate-induced challenges linked to three sectors–water, energy, and land.

Global Stocktake Indicator Tool NDC

As part of the Paris Agreement, countries worldwide agreed to keep global warming to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C. National scale implementation is reported in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and mid-century strategies, and the Paris Agreement envisions

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Senses Toolkit

The SENSES offers a range of modules to learn about and explore climate change scenarios. The policy and finance portals will offer a dedicated entry point with a curated selection of modules.

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