Jo Coleman, Strategy Development Director at the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has been appointed as Chair of the wholeSEM Advisory Board. She takes over from Professor Jim Skea, who has recently been elected Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III. He will remain as a member of the wholeSEM Advisory Board.

wholeSEM's Principal Investigator Professor Neil Strachan has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Energy Systems Catapult.

University College London’s team with colleagues from CIRED in France and RAND Santa Monica in United States have published a perspective on “Reinvigorating the scenario technique to expand uncertainty consideration”. Published by Springer, the paper summarises the outcomes of the IQ SCENE workshop “Innovative techniques for Quantitative SCenarios in ENergy and Environmental research" that took place on 26-27 March 2014 at University College London and was funded by wholeSEM. The workshop brought together over 30 researchers and practitioners from 9 countries worldwide in reviewing the state-of-the-art methods and future research directions for energy and environmental scenarios.