Scientific achievements in 2013

The following are highlights of ENE research in 2013:

• Finalization of two special issues summarizing the efforts of 20 international research teams jointly assessing the role of technology and climate policy architecture for limiting climate change.

• Completion of a number of major studies on strategies to achieve universal access to clean and modern energy for the poor, improving regional and global energy security, and dealing with the impacts on human health and ecosystems of energy-related air pollution. 

• Improving methodological representation of energy technology diffusion in integrated assessment models plus application of new probabilistic methods to assess climate mitigation costs, resulting in a paper being published in Nature.  

• Contributions to the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC and, related to this, finalization of a (third) special issue summarizing the conceptual framework of the so-called Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).  

• Scientific networking and policy advice in 2013 (see section on Energy Policy Analysis).
  
  

Energy policy analysis

In 2013 the Energy (ENE) Program conducted policy analyses in areas where the energy related challenges were greatest, for example, universal energy access. More

Integrated assessment of climate change and climate policy analysis

Integrated assessment of climate change and climate policy analysis was a core research activity in 2013, providing a focus for collaborative research with other research programs at IIASA, and with the larger international science community. More

Methodology developments

Methodological developments in 2013 have focused on two interrelated areas: uncertainty and energy technology diffusion.  More

Last edited: 22 May 2014