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11 March 2019 to 13 March 2019
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Scenarios Forum 2019: Forum on scenarios for climate and societal futures

On 11-13 March 2019, the International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios (ICONICS) and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures is hosting the Scenarios Forum 2019: Forum on scenarios for climate and societal futures at the University of Denver.
May 2016

Future Energy Scenarios for African Cities: Unlocking Opportunities for Climate Responsive Development

European Union Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF), Sustainable Energy Africa (SEA), ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Cities globally consume up to 80% of the total global energy production and release about 75% of global CO2 emissions.

COP21 RIPPLES Scenario Explorer

COP21: RIPPLES
The COP21 RIPPLES Scenario Explorer presents national and global transition pathways to support the assessment of major components of the global transformation in energy systems and the wider economy that are required to meet the Paris Agreement.
May 2016

Designing for Disruption: The UNEP Inquiry scenarios

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Tomorrow’s financial system will not look like today’s. Possibilities will be shaped by new entrants and technologies and by shifts in the global economy’s centre of gravity. Crises and innovation may present unpredictable and alternative pathways of change.

February 2019

Very Few Companies Make Good use of Scenarios to Anticipate their Climate-Constrained Future

Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE)
Climate change induces disruptions of our ecosystems, and the transition to a low-carbon economy significantly affects the political, economic and social landscapes. This Climate Brief gives an overview of the degree of implementation of climate-related scenario analysis to evaluate risks and opportunities by 2,003 companies surveyed in 2017.
January 2013

Renewables: Global Futures Report

Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)

The future of renewable energy is fundamentally a choice, not a foregone conclusion given technology and economic trends, according to this report.

October 2017

Dead on Arrival?: Implicit Stranded Assets in Leading IAM Scenarios

Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), GGKP Annual Conference
While it is acknowledged that asset stranding could jeopardize the political feasibility of climate policies, the amount of stranded assets is rarely made explicit in most decarbonization pathways. This paper introduces a novel method that extracts, for every given energy sector transition scenario, the implicit amount of new power generation capacity that is added every year, and the required amount of stranding if this scenario is to be in line with its projected generation mix.
December 2020

Using Climate and Energy Scenarios to Inform Strategy and Policy

This report introduces the role of climate and energy-economic scenarios in informing climate-aligned policy and strategy.
June 2020

Climate Action Planning: Developing a Provincial Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Emissions Scenarios Modeling

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
This case study describes GHG inventories and emissions scenarios, and their value to policy and decision makers. The study then presents the approaches used to develop the Mpumalanga inventory and scenarios, discusses the key data sources and challenges, and summarizes lessons for others developing sub-national inventories and future scenarios.
April 2019

Financing Climate Futures: Shifting the Lens - interim briefing

This report Financing Climate Futures: Shifting the Lens - Interim Briefing is one part of the broader Financing Climate Futures initiative focusing on the identification of critical uncertainties posing constraints to aligning financial flows with climate objectives and in particular infrastructure investment.

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