Policy relevance

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)

Twelve researchers from ENE served as Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5). These were: Luis Gomez-Echeverri, Arnulf Gruebler, Jessica Jewell, Nils Johnson, Peter Kolp, Volker Krey, David McCollum, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Keywan Riahi, Joeri Rogelj, Holger Rogner, and Mathis Rogner.

Krey, Riahi, and Rogelj participated in the IPCC approval sessions and the negotiations with government delegations (in Berlin and Copenhagen) which led to the final approval of the AR5 Working Group III (WGIII) Report and the Synthesis Report. Krey and Riahi served on the Summary for Policymakers and coordinated critical areas across Working Group III. Rogelj was an author on both the WGI and WGIII report.

ENE is hosting critical datasets for the IPCC AR5, including the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) database, the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) database and the IPCC AR5 scenario database. In 2014 ENE launched the IPCC AR5 scenario database to make major research products freely accessible to scientific peers, policymakers, and the public.

The IPCC assessment of mitigation strategies for limiting climate change builds heavily upon recent international multi-model comparison projects co-led by ENE, for example, the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF27) the AMPERE project, and the LIMITS project.

UNEP GAP 2014

ENE’s Joeri Rogelj, David McCollum, Volker Krey and Keywan Riahi were among the international team of 38 scientists convened by the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2014, presented to world leaders at the 2014 international climate negotiations in Lima. The Report emphasizes the need for global carbon emissions to be reduced to zero if global warming is to be stabilized at any level.

UNFCCC activities

In 2014 the international climate negotiations of the Un Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) worked toward a new global agreement scheduled for conclusion in 2015, including determining the adequacy of the long-term 2°C limit to warming. IIASA's ENE scholars Volker Krey and Joeri Rogelj participated in a Structured Expert Dialogue (SED) between UNFCCC policymakers and stakeholders and scientific experts, and provided key insights from the integrated assessment modeling literature on transformation pathways towards limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 or 2°C. 

Stakeholder and policymaker interactions

ENE co-organized two conferences in Brussels in January and September 2014 to disseminate and communicate key findings related to climate change mitigation research to international and European stakeholders and policymakers.

Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) 

ENE participated in an effort to explore linkages between SE4All objectives and other sustainability goals to assess how achievement of SE4All can help progress on global problems on poverty eradication and climate change.

Last edited: 05 May 2015