Integrating societal dynamics into coupled climate-economy-society models

23 and 24 June 2022, Bundestrasse 53

Public Lecture/Guest speaker: Frances Moore (UC Davis, USA)

The ambition and effectiveness of climate policies have a substantial impact on greenhouse gas emissions and therefore on the scale of climate change impacts. However, most climate change modelling still treats socio-political-technical processes as exogenous ones. By integrating societal dynamics into coupled climate-economy-society models, Frances Moore and colleagues recently identified relevant feedback processes and find that public perceptions of climate change, the future cost and effectiveness of mitigation technologies, and the responsiveness of political institutions help explain variation in emissions pathways and therefore the constraints on warming over the twenty-first century. This CLICCS Convent will cover the approach and the main findings of the Nature article “Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system” and discuss promising extensions for how societal dynamics can be integrated in coupled climate-economy-society models.

5. CLICCS Convent: please register here! (cliccs-synthesis.cen"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

This time: Convent + 2 Workshops

Thursday (09:00-13:00) room 133 (Bundestraße 53)	CLICCS Workshop 'Societal dynamics meets integrated assessment modelling' Target audience: CLICCS researchers
Thursday (15:15-16:45) room 22/23 (Bundestraße 53)	CLICCS Convent 'Integrating societal dynamics into coupled climate-economy-society models'
Friday (14:00-16:00) room 008 (Grindelberg 5)	Programming turorial 'The Code behind the Paper' Target Audience: MSc, PhDs an PostDocs (knowledge of R desirable) Please bring your laptops, with R installed.