This repository holds code for my MSc dissertation project; coupling ecological economics with climate.
Project title: Coupling Ecological Economics with Climate: A framework of climate scenarios to understand the need for urgent prioritisation of sustainable well-being
Project description: This framework converts the Simple Integrated Assessment Model (SIAM) (documentation link) from its native Excel format to Python code. There is now a fully functioning version of SIAM that allows a variety of socio-economic scenarios to be created. Output from SIAM is directly placed into the Finite Amplitude Impulse Response (FaIR) model (website link) to generate a temperature projection for each scenario.
File notes: M1 refers to method 1 and M2 refers to method 2. These are the two methods used to introduce non-CO2 emissions to the scenarios. Method 1 takes the whole range of RCP non-CO2 emissions to project the likely range of warming associated with each scenario. Method 2 uses a combintaion of RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 depending on whether the scenario is under decarbonisation or not.