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Climate impact assessments usually rely on modeling approaches that are either comprehensive but inflexible and inefficient, or lacking sufficient detail. Here we describe a framework to assess multi-sectoral climate impacts and show its capability and timely responsiveness to new policies.
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Why is it important?
With such a modeling framework, we can conduct a multi-sectoral assessment of climate impacts under a range of consistent and integrated economic and climate scenarios that are responsive to new policies and business expectations. We illustrate the effectiveness of the framework by conducting a multi-sectoral climate impact assessment focusing on ocean acidification, air quality, water resources and agriculture under scenarios that include expectations from the Paris Agreement and a stabilization at 2ºC warming. This framework can be used to assess existing environmental and energy policies and help design new ones.
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This paper is important because it describes the importance of coupled human-Earth system models to examine issues related to global change.
Erwan Monier
University of California, Davis
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This page is a summary of: Toward a consistent modeling framework to assess multi-sectoral climate impacts, Nature Communications, February 2018, Nature,
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02984-9.
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