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IIASA Achieving universal access to water and energy while facing growing climate risks demands more resilient and adaptive investment strategies. A new study led by…

PRISMA is pleased to support the final event of the project ECEMF (European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum) on April 09, 2025. This collaboration between…

PIK The potential role of lifestyle changes in reducing energy demand is widely discussed, yet remains underexplored in integrated scenario assessments. A recent study, supported…

The PRISMA project, supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101081604, is hosting a Summer School, from…

Bruegel The recent PRISMA workshop, held in Athens on January 30, 2025, brought together Greek stakeholders from finance, business, and policy sectors to discuss the…

30 Jan 2025 | 14:00 – 16:30 (Athens time)Athens Despite great progress in low-carbon technologies, global investments and decarbonization efforts are still falling behind what…

Conall Heussaff, Bruegel In her mission letters to Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, and Wopke Hoekstra, Commissioner for Climate, Net…

Darius Corbier, Junior Scientist, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment As transitioning to a circular economy (CE) can contribute to the achievement of…

Dr Hazel Pettifor, Senior Research Associate, Oxford University The drive to meeting the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting warming to below 2°C requires significant…

Financing is a crucial element in the low-carbon transition as it facilitates energy availability, affordability, and equity at a global level. New research, led by…

As we embrace summer, we want to highlight a few modelling events. The first is IAMC (4-6 November 2024), and the second is the ECEMP (16-17…

Dr. Bessie Noll, Post Doctoral Researcher, Energy and Technology Policy Group, ETH Zürich To address global sustainability challenges, the role of policy intervention in accelerating…

Valeria Sorgato, UNIGE Integrated assessment models and energy models are commonly used by decision-makers to guide policies on how to tackle climate change. These models…

WiseEuropa Why do we need energy transition? Why do we care for climate? Can we, as a society, take the additional burden in order to…

Céline Guivarch, CIRED, Ecole des Ponts In a new systematic review study, published in Environmental Research Letters, a team of authors from PRISMA analysed the existing…

PRISMA, in collaboration with fellow EU Horizon project CircEUlar, held a stakeholder workshop on 14 March 2024 titled Towards net-zero through a circular economy. The…

14 March 2024 | 12:00-16:30 Bruegel (Rue de la Charité 33, 4th floor, 1210 Brussels) Bruegel will host a closed-door, invitation only workshop, ‘Towards Net-Zero…

PRISMA hosted a research webinar on representing lifestyles in integrated assessment models (IAMs). Nicole van den Berg from Utrecht University presented a set of scenarios,…

In a recent virtual workshop on 22nd January 2024, titled “Representation of adaptation and maladaptation in integrated assessment models (IAMs)”, attended by over 50 participants,…

Title: “Sustainable Living in Systems Change: Modelling Lifestyle Change in IMAGE” Speaker: Nicole Jane van den Berg, Utrecht University Repository Abstract: “Nicole will present part…

Title: Representation of adaptation and maladaptation in integrated assessment models (IAMs) Moderator: Speakers: There has traditionally been a clear divide between research communities focused on…

As part of PRISMA’s stakeholder engagement strategy, an online workshop for the research stream on Biodiversity and biophysical impacts was held on the 22nd of…

Climate finance is a central research area for PRISMA, with the project aiming to develop novel representations of macroeconomic and financial sector dynamics within integrated…

Plenary Session 4: Relevance of climate scenarios for finance and private sector The session exlpored how scenarios are used in the finance and private sectors….

Title: Climate Impacts on country-level biodiversity, ecosystems services and GDP: recent research and stakeholder views Speaker: Johannes Emmerling (RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the…

13 September 2023 | 12:30-14:30 Bruegel (Rue de la Charité 33, 4th floor, 1210 Brussels) The EU must declare its 2040 climate targets by the…

The #net0prisma project aims to develop IAMs by focusing on 4 key areas of improvement, namely the representation of distributional justice and efficiency, innovation and…