Time: Tuesday 21 December, 16:00-19:00

Venue: Tencent Conference 869 897 274

Speaker: Prof. Elmar Kriegler, University of Potsdam, Germany

Speaker's introduction.

Prof. Elmar Kriegler is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of integrated climate change assessment. He works on integrated assessment modelling, decision analysis, scenario analysis and the economics of climate change. He is the Chief Scientist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, head of the research unit "Transition Pathways", lead author of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Professor of Integrated Climate Change Assessment at the University of Potsdam. He has published hundreds of papers in top international journals such as Nature, Nature Climate Change, Energy, Climate Change, etc. Professor Elmar Kriegler has been ranked as one of the world's most highly cited researchers for several years.

Brief description of report.

Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are used to explore global and regional pathways for mitigating climate change and achieving the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. This presentation describes recent advances in integrated assessment modelling and its close links to scenario-based approaches to analysing climate policy issues. Recent advances include improving the integration of mitigation and climate impacts, integrating climate change mitigation pathways into the broader sustainable development context, assessing the feasibility of mitigation pathways, and developing climate change scenarios to analyse climate-related financial risks.

(Organised by: Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Centre for Research and Academic Exchange)