Quantitative policy assessments of the climate and land use sector 1) provide policy support to modelers and 2) communicate science to policymakers and give policy advice. The group develops methods and tools such as graphical user interfaces (GUIs) between stakeholders and models that enables a review and assessment of results and assumptions in a transparent and comprehensible way.
Another way of strengthening ESM’s policy relevance is the organization and involvement of stakeholder workshops or relevant side-events in the framework of, for example, UNFCCC/UNCBD/UNCCD. The results of these events are fed into, inter alia, ICSU/Future Earth or GCP policies.
Presentations and policy briefs/peer-reviewed articles are another policy-oriented part of ESM program members' work. ESM’s PSI group also carries out training events for modelers from partner institutions such as INPE or COMIFAC (e.g. REDD-PAC School) and designs policy components for these events.
A Land Use Change (LUC) Vision Workshop was organized by Brazil’s Center for Strategic Studies and Management (CGEE), together with Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and IIASA More
ESM’s Deputy Program Leader Florian Kraxner co-authored a chapter on Certified Forest Products Markets in the FAO-UN-ECE Forest Products Annual Market Review 2011-2012 More
Following an invitation by UN FAO, ESM senior research scholar Prof. Anatoly Shvidenko co-authored an FAO Report on the Russian Forest Sector. More
ESM cooperated on a policy brief 2012 policy brief which showed for the first time how much the most effective domestic climate policies in major emitting countries would contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and also if their emission pledges made in Copenhagen in 2009 could be attained by such policies More
ESM contributed to the Biomass Futures project, completed in 2012, with an integrated assessment of sustainable biomass supply. ESM used the GLOBIOM model which was applied for the first time at national level for EU27 countries. More
A workshop on biofuels with carbon capture and storage was held in Jakarta, leading to the definition of a common agenda that will be embedded in government activities through the efforts of a BECCS task force with advisors from IIASA and the International Energy Agency. More
ESM Program Leader Michael Obersteiner delivered keynotes at three side-events dealing with forest conservation, REDD+, and greenhouse gas emissions pledges at COP18 in Dohar More
ESM: Scientific achievements in 2012
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