On 21 - 23 January 2015, members of UCL's wholeSEM team attended the year’s first bi-annual meeting of the EU’s ADVANCE project. This consortium brings together institutions from across Europe with the aim of triggering the development of a new generation of Integrated Assessment Models which are used to inform global climate change mitigation policy. UCL has significant involvement throughout the project in areas such as behavioural modelling, macroeconomic feedbacks and uncertainty analysis.

Under wholeSEM UCL are building a new energy systems model (UKTM) and are extending this to include endogenous technological change, non-price behaviour, temporal and spatial factors, and macro-economic linkages.

Further information:

• ADVANCE website

• wholeSEM Work Package 3 - Technology Innovation and Diffusion