The CD-LINKS project explores the complex interplay between climate action and development, while simultaneously taking both global and national perspectives and thereby informing the design of complementary climate-development policies.
As a four-year project (September 2015-September 2019) with 19 partners and collaborators from around the world, CD-LINKS brought together expertise from the areas of integrated assessment modelling, human development, climate adaptation, economics, energy geo-politics, atmospheric chemistry and human health, land use and agriculture, and water, among others.
The CD-LINKS consortium has developed a set of consistent national and global low-carbon development pathways that take current national policies and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as an entry point for short-term climate action and then transition to long-term goals of 1.5 and 2°C as defined by the Paris Agreement. These climate policy scenarios are also used as a basis to explore synergies and trade-offs between multiple sustainable development objectives.
Version 2.0 of the CD-LINKS Scenario Database documents the scenarios underlying the analysis presented in a series of publications listed in Table 2 above. When using global scenarios from this dataset, please cite McCollum et al. 2018 and Roelfsema et al. 2020. When using national/regional scenarios, please make sure to include the national/regional publications for the relevant regions (see CD-LINKS Scenario Explorer for details). Please note that the recommended citation will change in future with further scenarios and information being added to the data set.
CD-LINKS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642147.
PUBLICATIONS
Jie, D., Xu, X., & Guo, F. (2021). The future of coal supply in China based on non-fossil energy development and carbon price strategies. Energy 220, e119644. 10.1016/j.energy.2020.119644.
Hunt, J. , Zakeri, B. , Leal Filho, W., Schneider, P.S., de Assis Brasil Weber, N., Vieira, L.W., Ermel, C., de Castro, N.J., et al. (2021). Swimming pool thermal energy storage, an alternative for distributed cooling energy storage. Energy Conversion and Management 230, E113796. 10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113796.
Vieira, L.W., Marques, A.D., Schneider, P.S., José da Silva Neto, A., Viana, F.A.C., Abdel-jawad, M., Hunt, J. , & Siluk, J.C.M. (2020). Methodology for ranking controllable parameters to enhance operation of a steam generator with a combined Artificial Neural Network and Design of Experiments approach. Energy and AI, e100040. 10.1016/j.egyai.2020.100040. (In Press)
Awais, M., Parkinson, S., Zakeri, B. , McPherson, M., & Riahi, K. (2020). Leveraging new open-source modelling tools to rapidly prototype pathways for achieving SDG7 and mid-century climate targets in Pakistan. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 11-17 December 2018.
Vinca, A. , Parkinson, S., Riahi, K. , Byers, E. , Siddiqi, A., Muhammad, A., Ilyas, A., Yogeswaran, N., et al. (2020). Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin. Nature Sustainability 10.1038/s41893-020-00654-7.
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