The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) announces the Seventeenth IAMC Annual Meeting to be held on November 4-6, 2024 at Yonsei University, Main Campus, Seoul, South Korea. The event will take place in person, with a portfolio of online events as part of the programme. Presentations in oral sessions (keynote sessions, and parallel oral sessions) will be held in person, with attendance both in person and online.

Two kinds of poster sessions are planned: fully online and fully in person. Presenters in fully in-person sessions can present their posters also at the fully online sessions if they wish so. In-person sessions will be held at the meeting venue following local time zone (Korean Standard Time, GMT+9). Online poster sessions will be held between Tuesday 22 to Thursday 24 October 2024.

The IAMC will take steps to mitigate the inconvenience this may create for participants residing in regions with different time zones, for example by making session recordings immediately available to participants for a certain period.

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Korea Environment Insitute (KEI) and Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University (Yonsei GSIS) had been entrusted by IAMC with the task of organising the event. KEI and Yonsei GSIS are therefore the Seventeenth IAMC Annual Meeting Local Organisers.

With the support of:
Republic of Korea Ministry of Environment
Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI)

Annual Meeting Purpose
Important dates
Registration
Participation grants
Logistics and Accommodation
Visa
Information
Call for abstracts
Submission guidelines

Annual Meeting Purpose

The purpose of IAMC Annual Meetings is to:

• present and discuss the state of the art in integrated assessment modeling;
• review the status of ongoing community activities including both multi-model studies and the activities of the IAMC Scientific Working Groups;
• facilitate interaction with collaborating communities;
• evaluate and revisit the priorities of the integrated assessment community.

The IAMC Annual Meeting is a scientific meeting intended for peer sharing and vetting. The meeting is open to all registered participants. Researchers from organizations involved in integrated assessment modelling and their research collaborators are warmly encouraged to attend. The meeting is designed to allow researchers to share developments in methods, models and data. Participants are expected to be able to freely discuss their work.
For copyright reasons, recordings of any kind are prohibited without prior written consent of the presenter and the organisers.

Attendees may not capture or use materials presented during the meeting, including unauthorised material broadcasted or made available in the Annual Meeting website by the meeting organisers, without written permission of the presenter.
Views and opinions expressed during the meeting are those of the individual participants and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the IAMC or any other institutions.

Important dates

• 20 MAY: Deadline for abstract submissions
• 05 JUL: Notification of evaluation of submissions
• 12 JUL: Registration opens
• 31 JUL: Deadline for RE-CONNCECT participant grant requests
• 20 AUG: Deadline for ClimateWorks participation grant requests
• 31 AUG: Deadline by which presenting authors must register in order for their papers to be included in the programme
• 30 SEP: The scientific programme will be released
• 4-6 NOV: Annual Meeting

Registration

To register and pay the fee use this link.

Please note that the deadline for early registrations is 31st August 2024.

IN-PERSON Fee Categories	Early bird (until August 31st, 2024 CET)	Late (from September 1st, 2024 CET)
Reduced fee –  Residents and Students in Low Income, Lower-Middle Income, and Upper-middle income economies (1)	€ 120	€ 135
Reduced fee – Students (2)	€ 340	€ 405
IAMC Members fee	€ 400	€ 476
Full fee – others	€ 450	€ 540

In-person registration fees include coffee breaks and lunches for 4-6 November, as well as the reception in the afternoon of 4 November

ONLINE Fee Categories	Early bird (until August 31st, 2024 CET)	Late (from September 1st, 2024 CET)
Reduced fee –  Residents and Students in Low Income, Lower-Middle Income, and Upper-middle income economies (1)	€ 45	€ 54
Reduced fee – Students (2)	€ 140	€ 162
IAMC Members fee	€ 160	€ 191
Full fee – others	€ 180	€ 216

(1) Residents and students in Low Income, Lower-Middle Income, and Upper-middle income economies in accordance with the definition provided by the World Bank.
(2) Students are requested to prove their student status. You will be prompted to upload the necessary documentation.

Participation grants

The RE-CONNECT Project project and ClimateWorks Foundation will provide funds to support researchers to attend the Annual Meeting.

RE-CONNECT Project
The RE-CONNECT Project is a 4-year-project funded by the European Commission DG Climate Action project that aims to support a range of countries on issues related to climate change modelling and transparency. This year, the project will support around 16 experts to present at or attend online the IAMC conference in Seoul in November. This support will include travel and financial assistance for attending/presenting in-person, but the project can also support virtual presentation/attendance. Allocation of support will be decided and communicated prior to the registration deadline of August 30th. After the conference, supported participants will be asked to provide a mission report describing the main insights they gained at the conference.

The funding support aims to remove financial barriers for modellers that will otherwise struggle to attend specialised conferences.  The deadline for submissions has closed.

ClimateWorks Foundation
This year, IAMC, with support from ClimateWorks Foundation, will support approximately five experts to present at or attend the IAMC annual meeting  in Seoul in November. “This support includes travel and accommodation expenses for attending/presenting in person. The funding will help build the modelling capacity of research teams around the world and provide important insights into developments in Integrated Assessment Models (IAM).  Applications are now open for participants with emphasis for the following applicants:

1. Applicants with accepted papers from Asian low-income countries*;
2. Applicants with accepted papers from Africa;
3. Applicants with accepted papers from countries from other middle and low-income regions;
4. Applicants without accepted papers from countries from other middle and low-income regions;
5. Students from other regions with accepted papers;
6. Students from other regions without papers.

The allocation of support will be decided and communicated before the early bird registration deadline of 31 August. After the conference, supported participants will be asked to provide a mission report describing the main insights they gained at the conference. Please submit this form by 20 August to register your interest in receiving this support. Note that places are limited, so it is useful to provide detailed answers where appropriate.

Logistics and Accommodation

In this document you will find information on accommodation, local transportation, and the meeting venue.

Accommodation
A limited number of rooms is available at a special price for IAMC 2024 participants at Homes Stay Myeong-dong, a highly accessible business hotel well connected to the conference venue.

Rates:

• Weekday Standard Double/Twin – 110,000 KRW per night (Including VAT)
• Weekend Standard Double/Twin -130,000 KRW per night (Including VAT)
• Breakfast – 13,000 KRW per person (Including VAT)

How to book a room: Please download and fill in this form and send it to iamc2024@hanexco.co.kr no later than October, 4 2024. The rooms are assigned on a first come first served basis, we encourage you to take advance of this offer.

Additional Information on this accommodation offer is available in the Logistical information file here.

Visa

The IAMC 2024 Local Organising Committee will, on request, provide an invitation letter to Annual Meeting participants who need to obtain a visa. Please register to the Annual Meeting, complete the registration fee payment, and then request an invitation letter by sending your request to iamc@iamconsortium.org, together with a copy of your passport, your full affiliation and full professional address. Please do allow ample time, as the process of applying for a visa can be lengthy.

Information

For any questions, please contact the IAMC Secretariat.

Call for abstracts

The abstract submission is now closed.

The IAMC solicits abstracts for oral and poster presentations on the following selected research topics:

1. NATIONAL – Assessment of national mitigation strategies. This session will focus on assessing the effectiveness and consequences of climate policies at the national scale, including the implementation of nationally determined contributions, net-zero targets and mid-century strategies.
2.  DEEP – Analysis of deep mitigation strategies. This session will focus on (the consequences of) mitigation scenarios aimed at stringent mitigation targets consistent with the Paris Agreement.
3. INTERNATIONAL – International climate policy. This session focuses on the implementation of international climate policy in the context of UNFCCC, including the use of flexible instruments (Art. 6).
4. DEMAND –  Efficiency, lifestyle change, sufficiency and regrowth. This session will focus on modelling energy demand and the role of efficiency improvement. Attention will also be paid to the role of behavioral change, degrowth and its representation in IAM models. Finally, submissions may investigate the consequences of digitalization.
5.  ENERGY – Energy supply-sector analysis. The section will investigate the advanced analysis of electricity and hydrogen production (including system integration) and the use of these energy carriers in end-use sectors.
6. INDUSTRY – Industry and Circular Economy. Integrated assessment of pathways to carbon neutrality in individual sectors in industry and circular economy. This session also focuses on emerging IAM analysis on the effectiveness of CE strategies, and the material flows through the human economy.
7. SECTORS – Transport and buildings. Integrated assessment of pathways to carbon neutrality in individual sectors, including industry, transport, and building. The Paris Agreement requires carbon neutrality around the middle of the century. This session will look into mitigation pathways for individual sectors to reach zero emissions.
8.  CDR – Carbon dioxide removal and nature-based solution. This section looks into promising carbon dioxide removal techniques (CCU, BECCS, DACS, and others) and the implications of using these.
9. NON-STATE –  Analysis of the contribution of non-state action. Modelling subnational mitigation strategies (non-state actors). More-and-more attention is given to mitigation action by non-state actors, including businesses and cities. This session will focus on the IAM analysis of their contribution.
10. JUSTICE – Climate justice (including equity and distributional impacts). Analysis of distributional aspects of mitigation strategies (both at the international and national scale) and the development of just transition strategies. The support for mitigation strategies often depends on the (perceived) fairness of strategies. In this session, we will look into the distributional and fairness aspects of mitigation strategies related to IAM analysis.
11. FEASIBILITY – Feasibility and transition analysis. This section will focus on the representation of socio-technical transitions in IAM research (including institutional change) and issues related to feasibility. Specifically, it will address how to combine insights from social-technical transition research, insights on institutional change and governance and IAM modelling. One of the relevant topics here can be dealing with different forms of feasibility (technical, economic, and social or political).
12.  WATER – Water. This session will consider analysis on topics like water scarcity and water pollution.
13. ECONOMY – Economic analysis and climate finance. This section focuses on the economic aspects of mitigation and adaptation strategies and risks associated with climate impacts. This also includes climate finance. But also integrated approaches to mitigation, adaptation, and impacts together. One other type of analysis in this category may include the analysis of different policy instruments.
14. IMPACTS – Impacts of climate change (including representation of the climate system).  This session will focus on modelling climate impacts in integrated assessment models. Special attention will be paid to the representation of adaptation in IAMs. Impacts of climate change, such as those on agriculture, energy systems or wider. The session will also look into the representation of the climate system itself (including small climate models and emulators).
15. METHODS – Methodological advances in IAM research. This session will specifically look at various methodological issues related to IAMs, including open science and uncertainty analysis. This may also involve model validation, programming languages presentation tools, model solvers, representation of complex policies and model evaluation.
16. WELLBEING – Human well being and health. This session will focus on the representation of human well-being and health in IAMs.
17. LAND – Land, agriculture, and forestry. This session will focus on strategies related to land-related sustainable development problems, including biodiversity conservation, land degradation and climate change.
18. SUSTAINABLE – Sustainable development. This section will focus on the assessment of Sustainable Development Strategies, including scenarios aiming to reach multiple SDGs and analysis of the energy-water-land nexus.
19. TRADE – Trade and security. There are several relationships between climate policy and trade. The crises of the last few years have also increased attention to security issues. Several new climate policies do directly relate to trade aspects.
20. SSPs – SSPs, new baseline scenarios and representation of shocks. This session is looking for updates and extensions of the SSP scenarios in various areas and across scales, such as developing national and regional scenarios and their association with appropriate SSP domains. At the same time other new scenarios and focus on the representation of shocks are also welcome.
21. OTHER. This allows for submissions not related to the topics above.

The Annual Meeting organising committee will assign topics to parallel sessions and poster sessions based on the number and quality of submitted abstracts. Poster abstracts on other topics different from the selection will also be considered.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts should include 600-1000 words and 1-3 figures, as well as a summary with a maximum of 100 words. Please ensure that the methodological approach and results of the study are sufficiently well described. Multiple submissions are allowed. It is, however, good practice in IAMC Annual Meetings to accept only one talk per person (in case a selection needs to be made). All abstracts must be submitted electronically, in PDF format (max 5MB), and uploaded on the IAMC Events Management System.  This platform is the same one of IAMC 2023, so if you already used it last year, you do not need to create a new account: “user” is your email address used to create your profile. Kindly check and update your personal data if needed.

If it is the first time you enter the platform, create a “new user” on the login screen. You will receive an email to activate your account.

After logging into the platform, you can:

1. add and edit your personal details in the  “contact details” area;
2. make your abstract submission by clicking on “new submission”.

Instructions are available here.

The abstract submission is now closed.