Energy & Climate Change Research Projects
Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways (AMPERE)
AMPERE researchers are using state-of-the art models to develop long-term strategies and scenarios to find economically feasible ways to lessen the global impact of climate change. More
Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC)
An in-depth assessment of the effects of climate change on Austria is underway and should support mitigation and adaptation strategies for the future. More
Extreme Weather Impacts on Carbon Sinks (CARBO-Extreme)
European ecosystems help stabilize the atmosphere by soaking up significant amounts of the carbon in fossil fuel emissions, but researchers are concerned that the effectiveness of these carbon sinks might be diminished by expected increases in extreme weather. More
Development, Climate Change and Clumsiness
Policy disputes over the most effective way to use development aid to cope with climate change are best resolved with solutions that are clumsy, not elegant. More
Policy Instruments for Decarbonizing Energy (Climate Governance)
The Climate Governance project compares the potential of alternative policy instruments at national and regional scales to decarbonize the world's energy supply. More
European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies (EC4MACS)
EC4MACS provides scientific and economic analyses of policies in support of Europe’s Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and the European Climate Change Programme in order to better understand how to further reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. More
Impacts of Short-Lived Air Pollutants (ECLIPSE)
ECLIPSE is conducting research to increase knowledge about emissions of ozone and aerosols, which act as short-lived climate forcers, and identify concrete, cost-effective abatement measures. More
Energy Use Impacts on the Environment (EnerGEO)
EnerGEO assesses the current and future impact of energy use on the environment by linking environmental observation systems with the processes involved in exploiting energy resources. More
Energy and Economic Development
Access to energy and electricity are fundamental to meeting basic human needs, and they also spur growth in income and improvements in wellbeing. IIASA researchers are studying how access to energy supply affects people’s lives and livelihoods, and how to provide energy services equitably. More
Energy and Infrastructure
Developing countries’ demand for infrastructure, including roads, electrical grids, and public water systems, is growing rapidly. Building and maintaining that infrastructure requires energy, but how much? More
Future Impacts of Climate Change (FutureSoc)
FutureSoc is an effort to define the consequences of climate change on future human societies and examine the ability of those societies to cope with the coming changes. More
Global Energy Assessment
The Global Energy Assessment (GEA), launched in 2012, defines a new global energy policy agenda – one that transforms the way society thinks about, uses, and delivers energy. Involving specialists from a range of disciplines, industry groups, and policy areas, GEA research aims to facilitate equitable and sustainable energy services for all, in particular the two billion people who currently lack access to clean, modern energy. More
Reducing GHG Emissions Uncertainties (GESAPU)
Research in the more than ten years since the Kyoto Protocol has shown that the methods used to measure and inventory greenhouse gas emissions have significant uncertainties and gaps. GESAPU is intended to reduce the uncertainties of GHG emissions in Poland and Ukraine. More
Sources and Sinks for Greenhouse Gases (GHG-Europe)
GHG-Europe is analyzing European agricultural and forestry lands to determine both the sources and sinks for three major greenhouse gases and determine what percentage of those gases is anthropogenic. More
Management of Heterogeneous Dynamical Systems
The project’s goal is to understand the heterogeneous interactions of the parts of large socioeconomic systems that function across many sectors and are driven by multiple agents. More
Household Energy Transitions
Many people rely on traditional and polluting forms of fuel like wood and coal that contribute to health problems and air pollution. How do people make choices about fuel and appliances, and how can policies encourage people to switch to cleaner fuels? More
Restructuring Systems to Limit Climate Change (LIMITS)
LIMITS is examining how to fundamentally restructure energy systems and land-use management practices on a global scale in order to limit warming from climate change to two degrees Celsius. More
Evaluating Black Carbon Cuts in Finland (MACEB)
IIASA researchers are using the GAINS model in a partnership with Finnish scientists to develop a tool by which the climate effects of reducing black carbon emissions from different economic sectors can be evaluated. More
Integrated Assessment Modelling for negotiations under the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)
IIASA's Mitigation of Air Pollution & Greenhouse Gases Program develops modeling tools that identify strategies for European efforts to control air pollution in a cost-effective way. More
Creating Policy Tools for Climate Change Adaptation (MEDIATION)
MEDIATION uses case studies to provide European policymakers with scientific information and technical tools to develop improved climate change adaptation policies More
Envisioning Paradigm Shifts in Society (PASHMINA)
The PASHMINA project uses complex modeling to create scenarios that envision changes in the use of energy, transportation, land, and the environment 20 to 40 years into the future. More
Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry and Climate Change (PEGASOS)
The goal of PEGASOS is to enhance our understanding of the interactions of climate and atmospheric chemistry in the past, present and future. More
Impact of Technological Change in Europe (PROSUITE)
PROSUITE is a collaboration to develop the tools needed to predict the impact technological changes will have on Europe’s environment, economies, and social institutions over the next several decades. More
Accelerating Cuts in Greenhouse Gases (RESPONSES)
RESPONSES is a project to develop strategies that will enable European Union countries to accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and better adapt to environmental, social, and economic disruptions caused by climate change. More
Vision and Transition Pathways towards a Low Carbon Green Korea
How can countries transition to sustainable economy? What would it look like? What changes are needed? And how could those changes be implemented? South Korean and IIASA researchers are collaborating on a new project to find the answers that policymakers need. More
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