Natural resource constraints, mitigation policy and climate impacts have driven widespread interest in the important interdependencies between climate and the water, energy and land sectors. For almost a decade IIASA researchers have worked in this area using systems approaches, primarily at the global scale but increasingly at national and river basin scales also.
Financial institutions strive for economic stability but climate-related risks could have large impacts that may result in high costs. Therefore, science-based information is critical for sound decision-making; mutual learning between climate scenario modelers and central bankers is more important than ever before.
The IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment program has established itself as a community data hub for more than a decade, providing crucial scenario services to the global modeling community and international institutions related to climate-change mitigation scenarios and air pollution analysis.
The Energy, Climate, and Environment Program hosts a large number of scenario ensembles and databases for the integrated assessment modelling community and various research projects.