Overview

If getting more involved in climate action is one of your goals for the year ahead, our resource collection is a good place to start. This month, we’re sharing practical tools and guides for the energy transition.

May’s RE-CONNECT modelling workshop series focuses on the role of national policies and commitments, notably Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and Long-Term Strategies (LTS) to bridge implementation and ambition gaps. The two interactive workshops will focus on deepening the understanding of modelling techniques – selecting and implementing national and international climate policies and targets to accelerate transition to climate neutrality.

The Commission would like to hear your views on this initiative to reflect the 'Fit for 55' outcomes in EU climate reporting templates and align them with the revised ETS Directive, Effort sharing Regulation (ESR) and Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation.

The Commission would like to hear your views on this initiative to update the rules for accreditation of verifiers used in verifying reports within the context of the revised Emissions Trading System (ETS) Directive.

Well-being impacts of climate change, particularly on human integrity (Health) and living conditions (Place), are severe but often underrepresented in Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs).

The majority of scenarios in the IPCC database are generated by integrated assessment models (IAMs) and come from model intercomparison projects. However, the way in which the current model intercomparison projects are organized is not open to all IAM teams worldwide. Here we propose a transparent and inclusive platform that is open to anyone with an IAM regarding protocols development, scenario submissions and results evaluation.

Recent evidence highlights household air pollution as a significant health risk, particularly in the Global South. However, its impacts are frequently overlooked in the integrated assessment models widely used for global scenario analyses.

This study brings together integrated assessment models and energy system models under a common framework to develop EU policy scenarios: a Current Trends scenario reflecting existing policies and trends and a Climate Neutrality scenario aligned with the EU's emission reduction target.

The authors use an ensemble of global integrated assessment models to assess CO2 emissions reduction potentials in buildings and transport, accounting for system interactions. They focus on three intervention strategies with distinct emphases: reducing or changing activity, improving technological efficiency and electrifying energy end use.

Date: Wednesday 17 December 2025 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (AEDT) Location: CCRC seminar room & online (Hybrid)

The Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium (IAMC) announces the Eighteenth IAMC Annual Meeting to be held on November 11-13, 2025 at Hotel Atlantico Búzios, located in the city of Armação dos Búzios, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The risk of exceeding the 1.5°C warming threshold is becoming increasingly real, making it more important than ever to understand the challenges of climate overshoot and explore ways to respond.