James 'Jae' Edmonds

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College Park Professor; Senior Fellow, CGS
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Curriculum Vitae
  • Pioneer in the field of integrated assessment of climate change
  • Current lead author on the current International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment and was a lead author in all five prior IPCC Assessments
  • Four decades of experience developing tools and advising decision makers

Jae Edmonds is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS). He is also a researcher at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he is Chief Scientist and Battelle Fellow, and at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he is College Park Professor of public policy.  He is one of the pioneers in the field of integrated assessment modeling of global change. His research focuses on interactions between global and regional energy, technology, economy, land, water, atmosphere, and climate systems and global change. His most recent work focuses on scenarios for climate finance risk. His work spans four decades, producing several books, numerous scientific papers and countless presentations. His work has more than 33,000 citations. In 1978 he began what has developed into the Global Change Assessment Model, a frontier-class integrated model of energy, economy, water, land and climate interactions https://jgcri.github.io/gcam-doc/. He has been an active participant in all of the major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is an active member of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium, serving on the Scientific Steering Committee and Scientific Working Groups. He serves on numerous committees, panels and advisory boards.

 

Areas of Interest
  • Integrated assessment modeling & scenarios; climate finance; energy technology; policy analysis
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Can updated climate pledges limit warming well below 2°C?

School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Leon Clarke, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Sha Yu, Haewon McJeon

Other Authors: Yang Ou, Allen A. Fawcett, James R. McFarland, Matthew Binsted, Claire Fyson, Andreas Geiges, Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga, Matthew J. Gidden, Niklas Höhne, Louise Jeffery, Takeshi Kuramochi, Jared Lewis, Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, Pralit Patel, Shaun Ragnauth, Joeri Rogel J., Stephanie Waldhoff

NGFS Climate Scenarios Portal

School Authors: Leon Clarke, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Sha Yu, Alicia Zhao

Other Authors: Cornelia Auer, Ryan Barrett, Antoine Boirard, Renaud Concordet, Jérôme Hilaire, Otso Manninen, Thessa Beck, David Bresch, Christoph Bertram, Molly Charles, Dawn Holland, Ian Hurst, Elmar Kriegler, Chahan Kropf, Iana Liadze, Theresa Löber, Franziska Piontek, Jihoon Min, Edo Schets, Inga Sauer, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Bas van Ruijven

NGFS Climate Scenarios For Central Banks and Supervisors

School Authors: Leon Clarke, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Sha Yu

Other Authors: Thomas Allen, Cornelia Auer, Ryan Barrett , Christoph Bertram, Antoine Boirard, Stephane Dees, Jerome Hilaire, Elmar Kriegler, Theresa Lober, Jihoon Min, Franziska Piontek, Joeri Rogelj, Edo Schets, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Bas van Ruijven, Cristina Angelico, Rie Asakura, Ivan Faiella, Philipp Haenle, Craig Johnston, Federico Lubello, Simone Russo