Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

Grounding Social Foundations for Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change

Mathias, Jean-Denis ; Debeljak, Marko ; Deffuant, Guillaume ; Diemer, Arnaud ; Dierickx Florian ; Donges, Jonathan F. ; Gladkykh, Ganna ; Heitzig, Jobst ; Holtz, Georg ; Obergassel, Wolfgang ; Pellaud, Francine ; Sanchez, Angel ; Trajanov, Aneta ; Videira, Nuno

In: AGU Advancing Earth and Space Science, 2020, vol. 8, no. 7, p. 1-5

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are commonly used by decision makers in order to derive climate policies. IAMs are currently based on climate‐economics interactions, whereas the role of social system has been highlighted to be of prime importance on the implementation of climate policies. Beyond existing IAMs, we argue that it is therefore urgent to increase efforts in the integration of...