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GECO - Further reading

The yearly Global Energy and Climate Outlook serves as input for a range of related publications, including journal articles, European Commission policy documents, and publications by the wider research community. 

Publications

GECO has resulted in the following publications:

  • Garaffa, Rafael, Matthias Weitzel, Toon Vandyck, Kimon Keramidas, Paul Dowling, Florian Fosse, Stephane Tchung-Ming et al. (2023). Stocktake of G20 countries’ climate pledges reveals limited macroeconomic costs and employment shifts. One Earth 6, no. 11: pp. 1591-1604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02685-7

     

  • Vandyck, Toon, Kimon Keramidas, Stéphane Tchung-Ming, Matthias Weitzel, Rita Van Dingenen. (2020). Quantifying air quality co-benefits of climate policy across sectors and regions. Climatic Change 163, 1501–1517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02685-7 

 

  • den Elzen, Michel, Takeshi Kuramochi, Niklas Höhne, Jasmin Cantzler, Kendall Esmeijer, Hanna Fekete, Taryn Fransen, Kimon Keramidas, Mark Roelfsema, Fu Sha, Heleen van Soest, Toon Vandyck. (2019). Are the G20 economies making enough progress to meet their NDC targets? Energy Policy 126, pp. 238-250 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.027

 

  • Weitzel, Matthias, Toon Vandyck, Kimon Keramidas, Markus Amann, Pantelis Capros, Michel den Elzen, Stefan Frank, Stéphane Tchung-Ming, Ana Díaz Vázquez and Bert Saveyn. (2019). Model-based assessments for long-term climate strategies. Nature Climate Change 9, pp. 343–347 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0453-5

 

  • Weitzel, Matthias, Bert Saveyn, Toon Vandyck. (2018). Including bottom-up emission abatement technologies in a large-scale global economic model for policy assessments. Energy Economics 83, pp. 254-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.07.004

 

 

  • Vandyck, Toon, Kimon Keramidas, Alban Kitous, Joseph V. Spadaro, Rita Van Dingenen, Mike Holland & Bert Saveyn. (2018). Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges. Nature Communications 9, 4939 https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06885-9

 

  • Vandyck, T., Keramidas, K., Saveyn, B., Kitous, A., & Vrontisi, Z. (2016). A global stocktake of the Paris pledges: Implications for energy systems and economy. Global Environmental Change 41, pp. 46-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.08.006

 

 

Policy documents

GECO has been used in the following European Commission policy documents:

 

 

Presentations

GECO and related work has been presented at a number of venues over the years, such as UNFCCC COPs, international conferences (e.g. IAMC, GTAP, IEW), seminars and workshops. 

 

Related content

Others have used GECO in the following works:

 

  • Springmann, Marco, Rita Van Dingenen, Toon Vandyck, Catharina Latka, Peter Witzke, Adrian Leip. (2023). The global and regional air quality impacts of dietary change. Nature Communications 14, 6227. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41789-3

 

 

  • Bertram, Christoph, Keywan Riahi, Jérôme Hilaire, Valentina Bosetti, Laurent Drouet, Oliver Fricko, Aman Malik, Larissa Pupo Nogueira, Bob van der Zwaan, Bas van Ruijven. (2021). Energy system developments and investments in the decisive decade for the Paris Agreement goals. Environmental Research Letters (IF 7.8) 16074020 https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac09ae

 

  • Drouet, Laurent et al. (2021). Net zero-emission pathways reduce the physical and economic risks of climate change. Nature Climate Change 11, pp. 1070–1076. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01218-z

     

  • Duan, Hongbo, Sheng Zhou, Kejun Jiang, Christoph Bertram, Mathijs Harmsen, Elmar Kriegler, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Shouyang Wang, Shinichiro Fujimori, Massimo Tavoni, Xi Ming, Kimon Keramidas, Gokul Iyer, James Edmonds. (2021). Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit. Science 372, (IF55) https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba8767

     

  • Harmsen, Mathijs et al. (2021). Integrated assessment model diagnostics: key indicators and model evolution. Environmental Research Letters 16: 5 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abf964

 

  • Hasegawa, Tomoko et al. (2021). Land-based implications of early climate actions without global net-negative emissions. Nature Sustainability 4, pp. 1052–1059 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00772-w

     

  • Philippidis, G., Ferrer Pérez, H., Gracia de Rentería, P., M'Barek, R. Sanjuán López, A. I. (2021). Eating your greens: a global sustainability assessment. Resources, Conservation & Recycling 168: 105460 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105460

 

 

 

 

 

  • Harmsen, Mathijs, Oliver Fricko, Jérôme Hilaire, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Laurent Drouet, Olivier Durand-Lasserve, Shinichiro Fujimori, Kimon Keramidas, Zbigniew Klimont, Gunnar Luderer, Lara Aleluia Reis, Keywan Riahi, Fuminori Sano, Steven J. Smith. (2020). Taking some heat off the NDCs? The limited potential of additional short-lived climate forcers’ mitigation. Climatic Change 163, pp. 1443–1461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02436-3

     

  • Harmsen, Mathijs, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Jean Chateau, Olivier Durand-Lasserve, Laurent Drouet, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, David E. H. J. Gernaat, Tatsuya Hanaoka, Jérôme Hilaire, Kimon Keramidas, Gunnar Luderer, Maria Cecilia P. Moura, Fuminori Sano, Steven J. Smith, Kenichi Wada. (2020). The role of methane in future climate strategies: mitigation potentials and climate impacts. Climatic Change 163, pp. 1409–1425 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02437-2

 

  • Philippidis, G., Shutes, L., M'Barek, R., Ronzona, T., Tabeau, A., van Meij, H. (2020). Snakes and ladders: World development pathways’ synergies and trade-offs through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Cleaner Production 267: 122147 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122147

 

 

 

 

 

 

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