Integrated modeling of climate change at GERAD

Summary

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are used by the IPCC to develop GHG emissions scenarios for the coming decades. MEIs can also be used to study the interaction of climate change response strategies, such as adaptation, mitigation and geoengineering. This presentation describes two MEIs developed at GERAD, BaHaMa and MERGE, and presents some applications.

Speaker

Olivier Bahn holds a doctorate in management sciences from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Since 2003, he has been a professor (full since 2015) in the decision sciences department at HEC Montréal, which he headed between June 2016 and May 2019. In addition to leading the Decision Analysis Study and Research Group (GERAD, since June 2019), an inter-university research center, he is also co-director of the e3c Pole (environment, energy and circular economy) at HEC Montréal (since June 2016). His research interests span the areas of operations research, mathematical models in economics/energy/environment, and energy and climate policies.