[AgMIP] Scenarios Forum Call for Abstracts

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Hermann Lotze-Campen

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SCENARIOS FORUM CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures

https://www.scenariosforum2019.com/

March 11-13, 2019

University of Denver, Denver, Colorado


A rapidly expanding set of activities is extending and applying the new
framework on integrated climate change scenarios. Researchers are using
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), Representative Concentration
Pathways (RCPs), and other approaches to characterizing future societal
and environmental conditions to investigate global change issues,
including the Sustainable Development Goals. The Scenarios Forum aims to
bring together a diverse set of communities working with the new
framework to share their experiences, progress, and plans. By taking
stock of progress and facilitating scenario-related research, this
meeting will inform the use of scenarios in the IPCC Sixth Assessment
Report (AR6) and help ensure a research base sufficient to inform future
assessments and policy initiatives.

The Scenarios Forum is open to anyone using, developing, or interested
in scenarios to carry out research or policy analysis related to climate
change and sustainability. The Forum is currently open for abstracts for
oral or poster presentations on a wide range of topics including climate
change impacts/adaptation/vulnerability, climate science and modeling,
sustainability, integrated assessment modeling, biodiversity, futures
studies, risk management, governance, and other areas of social science.
Work that is relevant to multiple research communities is of particular
interest. Abstracts may be submitted to one of the 40 sessions that have
been proposed by the community, or to an Open category (
https://www.scenariosforum2019.com/call-for-abstracts/ ), through
September 28, 2018.

The Forum is presented by the International Committee on New Integrated
Climate Change Assessment Scenarios (ICONICS) and the Pardee Center for
International Futures at the University of Denver. It is generously
supported by the ClimateWorks Foundation and the University of Denver,
and has been kindly endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP).