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Integrating the Real World into Climate Policy Models, with Wei Peng

Published: June 28, 2021, midnight

b'In this week\\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Wei Peng, an assistant professor at Penn State University. Peng recently coauthored a paper in the journal \\u201cNature\\u201d that offers recommendations for how to make integrated assessment models more useful in the design of climate policy. Peng discusses how these climate policy models can better represent the real world\\u2014especially political dynamics\\u2014to better inform policymakers at the local, national, and international scale.\\n\\nReferences and recommendations:\\n\\n\\u201cClimate policy models need to get real about people\\u2014here\\u2019s how\\u201d by Wei Peng, Gokul Iyer, Valentina Bosetti, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, James Edmonds, Allen A. Fawcett, St\\xe9phane Hallegatte, David G. Victor, Detlef van Vuuren, and John Weyant; https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01500-2\\n\\n\\u201cMaking Climate Policy Work\\u201d by Danny Cullenward and David G. Victor; https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509541799\\n\\n\\u201cGlobal Energy Outlook 2021: Pathways from Paris\\u201d by Richard Newell, Daniel Raimi, Seth Villanueva, and Brian Prest; https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/global-energy-outlook-2021-pathways-from-paris/\\n\\nRFF\\u2019s Global Energy Outlook interactive data tool; https://www.rff.org/geo/'