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Publications
A new outlook: the Global Green Growth Institute is developing a new outlook. It is envisaged as a new flagship initiative aimed at providing data-driven, forward-looking insights to support green growth policy and investment decisions and should be accompanied by a Green Growth Dashboard https://gggi.org/
New Climate Assessment Scenarios: The International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios (ICONICS) has begun a systematic, broad-based effort to develop a new set of scenarios, in order to replace, rather than update, the Shared Socio-Economic Pathways. The initiative is called the Scenario Evolution Process, is meant as a multi-year process and comes with a survey among practitioners and users. https://www.du.edu/scenario-evolution-process
Two new books: Roger Pielke jr. has announced a sequel on the Environmental Information Ecosystem. It should lead to a new book, following The Honest Broker: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-the-information-ecosystem Arguably in the same domain is Anne Beaulieu, whose book on knowledge infrastructures, Revealing Relations, will be published this month: ”The book uncovers how knowledge infrastructures, including satellite tracking, climate models, machine learning, and citizen science apps, shape our understanding of contemporary crises”: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anne-beaulieu
Events
Conference: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society – iEMSs 2026 takes place July 12-16, 2026 at University College Dublin in Ireland. This year’s theme: Environmental Modelling for a Resilient Future: Integrating Data, Systems, Stakeholders and Societal Systems. More information on the programme: https://conference.iemss.org/streams/
Conference: International Conference Localised Food Systems takes place 1-4 September 2026 in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Conference will provide a participatory and reflexive space that brings together academics, practitioners, policymakers, social movements, local producers and youth to collectively explore where localised agri-food systems stand today; how they are shaped by and shape their territories; and how to future-proof them in full in the context of future challenges and shocks. https://xi-conferencesyal.com/
Call for abstracts IAMC Annual Meeting: The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) will hold its 19th Annual Meeting on November 17-19, 2026 in Athens, Greece. Abstracts are welcome across 22 thematic topics spanning mitigation strategies, energy systems, land use, climate impacts, equity, and methodological advances in integrated assessment modelling. The submission deadline is 8 May 2026. The event will take place in person, with a portfolio of online events as part of the programme. More information: https://www.iamconsortium.org/iamc-announcements/news-iamc-announcement/call-for-abstracts-2026-iamc-annual-meeting/
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