The EU has committed to becoming a net-zero economy by 2050, with many member states having integrated this goal into national strategies. The bloc’s path towards delivering on this ambition, however, remains unclear. Alongside the Horizon Europe project IAM COMPACT as well as the Hellenic Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage, the DIAMOND consortium is co-hosting a...
The European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum – ECEMP 2023 was held virtually on the 5th-6th of October 2023. The annual ECEMP conference brings together Europe’s climate and energy modelling community over a two-day period in a forum for deep exchange of research and modelling practice and varied discussions. The event featured a balanced mix...
On September 21-22, 2023, a two-day project meeting took place in Maastricht at the premises of the University of Maastricht (UM) to discuss aspects related to finance, labour, and consumer demand as well as to their integration in the DIAMOND ensemble of IAMs. During the first day, colleagues from UM, led by Prof. Mark Sanders...
DIAMOND partners took part in a Summer School on Integrated Assessment Models, which was organised by CMCC Foundation, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) as a synergy of EU-funded projects NAVIGATE and ENGAGE, at Lake Como, Villa del Grumello, on July 3-7, 2023. The objective of the summer school was to create...
The Joint Global Change Research Institute’s (JGCRI) annual ‘GCAM Community Modelling Meeting’ was held virtually on June 6-8, 2023. The Meeting provides a forum for the GCAM community to share and promote the exploitation of the latest developments and current uses of GCAM. For those new to GCAM, the Meeting continued to serve as an excellent...
The development of the GCAM-Europe model, another of the six core IAMs of the DIAMOND project, officially kicked off on the 18th of May, in Bilbao, back to back with our first General Assembly (May 16-17, see here). As part of the DIAMOND project activities, GCAM-Europe will be developed as a regionally disaggregated version of...
The first general assembly of the DIAMOND research and innovation action was successfully held in Bilbao, Spain, on the 16th and 17th of May 2023, as a hybrid event. The meeting was kindly hosted by our partners over at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3). The first day of the meeting featured reflection and...
After our first such meeting on the OMNIA model in Turin, back in March, we held a two-day meeting on the ICCS-NTUA premises, on April 24-25, to kick off discussions on the development of the CLEWs-EU model, one of the six core IAMs that DIAMOND will update and expand. In particular, the project aims to...
A full-day meeting for the OMNIA model—one of the six open integrated assessment models (IAMs) that DIAMOND will produce—already took place on March 3, 2023 (full day) in Turin, Italy, to kick-off the development of the model. In particular, among the objectives of the DIAMOND project is to develop the Open-source MuNdus Integrated Assessment model...
