Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models
dc.contributor.author | Keppo, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Butnar, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Bauer, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Caspani, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Edelenbosch, O | |
dc.contributor.author | Emmerling, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Fragkos, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Guivarch, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Harmsen, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Lefevre, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Le Gallic, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Leimbach, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Mcdowall, W | |
dc.contributor.author | Mercure, JF | |
dc.contributor.author | Schaeffer, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Trutnevyte, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Wagner, F | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-21T07:10:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04-29 | |
dc.description.abstract | Integrated assessment models (IAMs) have emerged as key tools for building and assessing long term climate mitigation scenarios. Due to their central role in the recent IPCC assessments, and international climate policy analyses more generally, and the high uncertainties related to future projections, IAMs have been critically assessed by scholars from different fields receiving various critiques ranging from adequacy of their methods to how their results are used and communicated. Although IAMs are conceptually diverse and evolved in very different directions, they tend to be criticised under the umbrella of 'IAMs'. Here we first briefly summarise the IAM landscape and how models differ from each other. We then proceed to discuss six prominent critiques emerging from the recent literature, reflect and respond to them in the light of IAM diversity and ongoing work and suggest ways forward. The six critiques relate to (a) representation of heterogeneous actors in the models, (b) modelling of technology diffusion and dynamics, (c) representation of capital markets, (d) energy-economy feedbacks, (e) policy scenarios, and (f) interpretation and use of model results. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Union Horizon 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 16 (5), article 053006 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/1748-9326/abe5d8 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 821124 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/127148 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 TheAuthor(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. | en_GB |
dc.subject | integrated assessment model | en_GB |
dc.subject | heterogeneity | en_GB |
dc.subject | technology diffusion | en_GB |
dc.subject | energy-economy feedback | en_GB |
dc.subject | finance | en_GB |
dc.subject | policy scenarios | en_GB |
dc.subject | model interpretation | en_GB |
dc.title | Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-21T07:10:18Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from IOP Publishing via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | No new data were created or analysed in this study. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Environmental Research Letters | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-02-12 | |
exeter.funder | ::European Commission | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-02-12 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-09-21T07:03:41Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-09-21T07:10:22Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.depositException | publishedGoldOA |
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