Members from Cambridge's wholeSEM team are convening a session at the  European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 in Vienna, Austria. The session 'Energy and environmental system interactions – Policy and modelling' will discuss novel approaches for analysing Energy and Earth/Environmental systems interactions and their implications for policy and society. These approaches may inform the development of sustainable energy/environmental policies, the navigation of sustainable energy and resource use pathways, and management of energy system transitions and critical thresholds of environmental resource exploitation. It will bring together inputs from diverse research disciplines such as energy systems and engineering, hydrology and water resources, climatology, ecology, systems sciences, economics and the social sciences, using multiple research approaches such as whole systems modelling, geospatial data analysis and measurements at different spatial and temporal scales.