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|Description=<h2>IMAGE | |Description=<h2>Main focus of IMAGE over the 2015–2020 period</h2> | ||
The IMAGE modelling framework forms an integrated assessment model (IAM) of global environmental change in interaction with human development. This means that the IMAGE framework is intended to provide an integrated view on trends that determine global environmental change (the [[drivers]]), the state of the global environment itself and the impact | |||
of future changes for the earth and human systems. In this context, the objectives for the modelling framework can be described, in generic terms, as: | |||
# to assess the maininteractions between the human system and the earth system on a global level and overlarge timescales; # to indicate the importance of various processes of change by showing the consequences; | |||
# to explore various response strategies for global environmental problems and their implications; | |||
# to support policy-making processes and international assessments by providing relevant scenarios, with explicit attention for the extent and relevance of uncertainties along the chain. | |||
The main clients of IMAGE include the Dutch Government, the European Commission, international organisations, such as IPCC, UNEP and OECD, and the research communities. | |||
In the future, efforts will be made to expand this client base to sector and business associations. The 3 leading questions for the IMAGE framework over the following years remain similar to those of the past period: | |||
* What are effective response strategies for climate change, going beyond global costefficiency? | |||
* What response strategies would be able to provide sufficient food for 9 billion people around 2050, while conserving biodiversity and the provisioning of goods and services by ecosystems? | |||
* What levels of effort are associated with implementing currently formulated sustainable development objectives ({{AbbrTemplate|SDG}}s/Planetary Boundaries)? Can multiple targets be achieved at the same time? | |||
In addressing these questions, work on and with the IMAGE Framework will focus more on the following directions: | |||
* Response strategies and concrete interventions | |||
* Feedbacks and linkages between model components | |||
* Linkages between global environmental problems and human development | |||
* Guide policymakers and researchers on the role of uncertainty in complex environmental problems | |||
The prioritisation is based on the observation that, over the past few years, there have been | |||
important changes to the context of IAM work: | |||
# a shift from problem identification to interest in the efforts and benefits of response strategies; | |||
# increasing interest in thegovernance aspects and the role of various actors; | |||
# increasing attention for therelationship between various problems, calling for more integration; | |||
# renewed attention forthe relationship between human development and global environmental change; | |||
#increasing interest in the IAM work, in general. | |||
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