On April 28, DIAMOND joined forces with IAM COMPACT at the General Assembly 2025 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna, Austria, for an on-site presentation on “Comparing cost-optimal to policy-driven scenarios for a decarbonised European energy system”. The two projects assessed how the European (and national) energy systems differ between the two scenarios...
In April 2025, Maris Sandstad, a Senior Advisor at CICERO, Norway, has presented METEOR in the context of the 2025 Seminar Series of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and the EGU General Assembly 2025. METEOR stands for Multivariate Emulation of Time-Evolving and Overlapping Responses and is a spatially resolved impacts emulator. METEOR uses Earth...
Integrated assessment models (IAM) underpin much of the climate change mitigation pathways that are used in IPCC AR6 and other major assessments. Although the desirability of the futures imagined largely depends on the people affected by such pathways, wide stakeholder input is often missing from modelling studies, reducing the breadth of perspectives that are represented...
DIAMOND was present at the International Inter- and Transdisciplinarity conference (ITD24) that took place on November 4-8, 2024, at Utrecht University, Netherlands. The conference focused on educational pathways for sustainable research collaborations, giving the opportunity to researchers, practitioners and students to share their knowledge, insights, and expertise on critical issues in inter- and transdisciplinarity needed to...
DIAMOND had a strong presence at the Seventeenth Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium’s Annual Meeting (IAMC2024), held on November 4-6, 2024, at Yonsei University, South Korea. Members from our consortium team presented 2 posters and 2 conference papers targeting the enhancement of state-of-the art IAMs and addressing key climate change mitigation and sustainability challenges, showcasing the...
The fourth MORSE conference, hosted on 23-25 October, 2024, in Maastricht, Netherlands, brought together scholars from different disciplines around Europe working towards a responsible, resilient, and sustainable future. DIAMOND colleagues from the Department of Macro, International, and Labour Economics (MILE) at Maastricht University, hosted a project session to discuss the current progress made on linking Integrated...
DIAMOND actively supported this year’s European Climate and Energy Modelling Platform (ECEMP). The hybrid conference took place on 16-17 October 2024, focusing on energy transition scenarios for a climate neutral Europe, and notably key policy measures and innovations for 2030–2040, prioritising infrastructure investments, implementation barriers, and insights from modelling intercomparison in energy-climate transition analyses. DIAMOND...
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...