Publications related to Integrated assessment modelling

Decarbonizing the fertilizers sector: an alternative pathway for urea and nitric acid production

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

In order to alleviate the environmental impact that nitrogen fertilizers production is responsible for, several efforts have been addressed to incentivize the partial or total decarbonization of the supply chains of ammonia and its derivatives. The decarbo ...

2024

Spatial Modeling for Building Design Evaluation: from Visual Landscape Quality Assessment to Devaluation Risk Estimation

Adam Robert Swietek

Zoning reform is a crucial tool for cities to adapt to contemporary challenges. However, its implementation remains challenging. Property owners, with a vested interest in the value of their neighborhoods, are sensitive to local developments and the potent ...

EPFL2024

Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Berend Smit, Susana Garcia Lopez, Fergus Robert Lloyd Mcilwaine

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

ClimateBench v1.0: A Benchmark for Data-Driven Climate Projections

Rodrigo Manuel Gonzalez, You Rao

Many different emission pathways exist that are compatible with the Paris climate agreement, and many more are possible that miss that target. While some of the most complex Earth System Models have simulated a small selection of Shared Socioeconomic Pathw ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2022

Reaching Paris Agreement goal through carbon dioxide removal development: A compact OR model

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

A compact operations research (OR) model is proposed to analyse the prospects of meeting the Paris Agreement targets when direct air capture technologies can be used or not. The main features of the model are (i) the representation of the economy and energ ...

ELSEVIER2023

Potential Integration of Chinese and European Emissions Trading Market: Welfare Distribution Analysis

Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana, Ru Li

Central to the aims of the Paris Agreement, a multilateral coordinated action through integrated carbon markets has been a practical bottom up option for effective and efficient mitigation. This paper quantifies the welfare effects of potential integration ...

2020

Low emission scenario for Europe powered by lifestyle changes

Vincent Moreau, Luis Costa

Decarbonizing economic activities requires simultaneous behavioural and technological changes. At the household level, actions are straightforward, use public transit and stay off dairy and meat. The objective here is to estimate the overall climate benefi ...

2020

Producing Policy-relevant Science by Enhancing Robustness and Model Integration for the Assessment of Global Environmental Change

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Santosh Ram Joshi, Alain Haurie

We use the flexible model coupling technology known as the bespoke framework generator to link established existing modules representing dynamics in the global economy (GEMINI-E3), the energy system (TIAM-WORLD), the global and regional climate system (MAG ...

2019

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

Cities can play a key role in mitigating climate change impacts, as they represent two thirds of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a model-based approach to support cities in the challenge of including energy ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2016

Projecting hydropower production under future climates: a guide for decision-makers and modelers to interpret and design climate change impact assessments

Bettina Schaefli

Hydropower is a key energy source in almost all world regions. It fuels social and economic development, ensures electricity security, and is a pillar for renewable electricity production. But hydropower and its environmental impacts are vulnerable to clim ...

2015

On the use of inexact, pruned hardware in atmospheric modelling

Giovanni De Micheli, Jaime Joven Murillo, Avinash Lingamneni

Inexact hardware design, which advocates trading the accuracy of computations in exchange for significant savings in area, power and/or performance of computing hardware, has received increasing prominence in several error-tolerant application domains, par ...

Royal Soc2014

Combining Stochastic Optimization and Monte-Carlo Simulation to Deal with Uncertainties in Climate Policy Assessment

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

In this paper we explore the impact of several sources of uncertainties on the assessment of energy and climate policies when one uses in an harmonized way stochastic programming (SP) in a large scale bottom-up (BU) model and Monte-Carlo simulation (MC) in ...

Springer Netherlands2012

Integrated Assessment of Swiss GHG Mitigation Policies After 2012

Marc Vielle, André Sceia, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

The residential sector presents a great potential for greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation. We perform an integrated assessment of different mitigation policies for Switzerland focusing on the residential sector. We analyze the case of pure incentive taxes an ...

Springer Netherlands2012

Chemistry and climate interactions : development and evaluation of a coupled chemistry-aerosol-climate model

Luca Pozzoli

Atmospheric trace gases and aerosols and climate interact in many ways. A quantitative assessment of the influence of trace gases and aerosols on climate can only be achieved if the interactions and feedbacks among these three major components are accounte ...

EPFL2007

A Modelling Assessment of the impact of clean development mechanism on electricity generation systems: Case of Shandong Province, China

Edgard Gnansounou, Jun Dong

The electricity generation sector is broadly cited among the most promising domains for implementation of greenhouse gases (GHG) abatement measures intended to achieve the targets set up in the Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile, considered through the perspective ...

2005