Ben Matthews' Papers / Presentations
Organised by topics, newer first, but topic dates overlap(Note: some missing links /gaps still to fix, some extra docs may be found at my ResearchGate page)
Recent 2021-2 | Migration & 1.5C, 2016 | Brazil (IVIG) 2011 | Regional Pathways | Global Stabn <2C | Optimisn/Uncert | New Scenarios | Responsibility | Metrics | Aviation | JCM Concept | Climate Equity | Air-Sea CO2 fluxes | Other Cli-conf | Climate Engineering | Fluo Corals | EQ Life |
New! Scalable World Interactive Model
2022 - coming soon: (links will be added)- Scenarios Forum 2022, IIASA, June 2022
Poster (jpg 9.4MB) | Abstract - Earth System Governance, Oct 2022
- ? Scalacon, Oct 2022
- Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) conference Nov 2021
Poster for IAMC_2021 Conference (PDF 8.4MB)
Abstract (explains the "scalable" concept) (PDF 1.1MB) - Also participated 'virtually' (no presentation):
- Climate Neutrality Forum (Net Zero), Sep 2021
- Systems Analysis in Eurasia, Apr 2021
- Earth System Governance, Sep 2020
(2016): 1.5C and Migration conferences
- Migration and Climate Change - Hugo Conference Liege Nov 2016
Powerpoint: Exploring Climate Migration & Adaptation Feedbacks with an Interactive Model (3.8 MB) - 1.5 Degrees (Meeting the Challenges of the Paris Agreement) Oxford Sept 2016
Poster: An Interactive Model for Exploring Options and Uncertainties Influencing Pathways towards a 1.5oC goal (8.9 MB) - IAMC workshop, Potsdam Nov 2015 ADD LINK
Topic: Regional Emissions Pathways consistent with Global Climate Stabilisation
Presentations whilst working in IVIG-COPPE-UFRJ Brazil 2011- TO ADD: probabilistic pathway analysis Sept 2011
- Presentation JCM to EPD 24 August 2011 Keynote | Powerpoint
- Presentation JCM to COPPE 17 Aug 2011 Keynote
- Presentation JCM to IVIG 21 June 2011 Keynote | Powerpoint | pdf
- Report from project applying JCM for IVIG, COPPE, UFRJ Brazil 2011 - Coming Soon- (ADD presentations in Rio)
- Report on equitable pathways analysis with JCM for INFRAS 2011, Switzerland - Coming Soon
- Report on equitable pathways analysis with JCM for INFRAS 2008, ADD LINK
- Have contributed to and EU expert taskforce on modeling and assessment of related topics - and piloted this group during Belgian presidency of EU in 2010 (internal documents only)
- Interactive Java Climate Model (at jcm.benmatthews.eu) includes many relevant plots and inline documentation on this topic
Topic: Global climate stabilisation pathways to avoid 2°C (probabilistic analyses)
- Emission pathways consistent with a 2°C global temperature limit
J.Rogelj, W.Hare, J. Lowe, D.van Vuuren, K. Riahi, B. Matthews, T. Hanaoka, K. Jiang & M. Meinshausen,
Nature Climate Change, October 2011 - UNEP: The Emissions Gap Report
Are the Copenhagen Accord Pledges Sufficient to Limit Global Warming to 2°C or 1/5°C?
(26 Authors, I contributed mainly to chapters 2 + 5), Presented in Cancun Oct 2010 (following meetings in Bonn, Geneva) - Scientific Perspectives after Copenhagen
E.Fee, D. Johansson, J. Lowe, P. Marbaix, B. Matthews, M. Meinshausen (+ Steering Group),
Information Reference Document commissioned by the EU's Climate Change Science Experts, Presented in Cancun October 2010 (Following meetings in Madrid, Brussels) - "Debriefing after Cancun" - presentation to ULB Feb 2011 (file 23MB need to compress...)
- The 2°C Target, Background on Impacts, Emission Pathways, Mitigation Options and Costs
Information Reference Document prepared and adopted by EU Climate Change Expert Group, July 2008 (following meeting in Bled) - Participation at Conference "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change", Exeter 2005
- UNFCCC Article 2, Stabilisation and Uncertainty: Engaging Citizens with a web-based Climate Model: Presentation
| Abstract
B.Matthews, J-P.vanYpersele, at World Climate Change Conference Moscow (Oct 2003): - Related later presentations: For Climneg UG (Jan 2004) | UCL-ASTR (Feb 2004) | ICTP Trieste (Mar 2004)
- Related earlier presentations: Ghent (Nov 2003) | Firenze (Sept 2003)
- European Geophysical Society, Nice April 2003 Poster | Abstract (earliest investigation of this topic)
| Abstract for 2004
- Optimal Climate Stabilisation under Uncertainty, Can an Interactive Model make Risk Analysis more Transparent(ly)? Presentation at 2nd International Workshop on Integrated Climate Models: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Climate Impacts and Policies, ICTP Trieste (Nov 2004)
- Report of Climneg II Project 2005 (ADD LINK)
- Participation at expert meetings of the "Innovation Modeling Comparison Project" in Paris, Milano, Utrecht (2003-5) `
Related Topic: [Climate] Optimisation under uncertainty
(including economic modeling)Topic: New Scenarios for scoping IPCC AR5 and future work of IPCC
-
Towards New Scenarios for Analysis of Emissions, Climate Change, Impacts and Response Strategies.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Expert Meeting Report, Sept 2007 Noordwijkerhout, 132pp. Ben Matthews is one of the 31 lead authors.Note: this document was the culmination of a series of IPCC expert meetings over several years, beginning in Laxenburg and continuing in Seville, in all of which I participated.
- Presentation to UCL-ASTR on New Scenarios, October 2007
- Proposals For Future Work of IPCC - ADD LINK to doc submitted to Budapest plenary, and follow-up doc in Antalya plenary
- Scoping document for IPCC AR5 - ADD LINK to doc negotiated in Pusan
- I also contributed to many reviews of IPCC AR4 (all 3 WGs) and its planning, especially regarding the "Cross Cutting Themes", via submissions of the Belgian government and later of the IPCC-ViceChair, and active contribution to the AR4-WG plenaries in Brussels, Paris, Valencia
- Contribution to earlier IPCC expert meetings (including on Article 2, Geneva 2003) - ADD INFO.
- Observer at earlier IPCC plenaries in London (for TAR, 2001) and Geneva (2002)
Topic: Attribution of Relative Contributions to Climate Change
(UNFCCC Assessment of Scientific and Methodological Aspects of the "Brazilian" proposal)including participation at expert meetings in Bracknell, Berlin, Louvain-la-Neuve (which I organised), Koeln 2006, Oslo 2007.
- Contributions of individual countries' emissions to climate change and their uncertainty
N. Hoehne, H. Blum, J. Fuglestvedt, R.B. Skeie, A. Kurosawa, G. Hu, J. Lowe, L.Gohar, B.Matthews, A.C.Nioac de Salles, Climatic Change, Volume 106, 2011 - Analysing countries' contribution to climate change: scientific and policy-related choices
M.denElzen, J.Fuglestvedt, N.Höhne, C.Trudinger, J.Lowe, B. Matthews, B. Romstad, C. Pires de Campos, N. Andronova, Environmental Science & Policy Volume 8, Dec 2005 - Posters for MATCH LLN 2006
1. Attribution of Regional Contributions to Climate Change in Java Climate Model JCM5
2. Contributions from Land Use Change Emissions - Further documents and reports are available on the "MATCH" website
UNFCCC Assessment of Contributions to Climate Change
- Abstract for Berlin Expert Meeting, Sept 2003
- Documents are also available on the UNFCCC website (other methodological issues - Brazilian proposal)
- This UNFCCC page links to the early ACCC studies: note JCM section in Results Phase 2
- JCM used in 2002 intercomparison (links to submitted results/documentation) - REDIRECT LINK TO JCM ARCHIVE
Related Topic: Alternative Metrics for Relative Contributions of Greenhouse Gases
Global Warming Potentials, vs GTP and other proposals:
I contributed to internal EU documents, expert groups and UNFCCC negotiations on this topic, 2007-2010
MATCH (Modelling of Contributions to Climate Change)
Topic: Contribution of Aviation Emissions to Climate Change
- Aviation and the Belgian Climate Policy, Integration Options and Impacts (ABCI):
I participated in many papers by Andrew Ferrone referenced on his website
(ADD LINKS DIRECTLY - CLM papers, JCM analysis re 2C, Project Reports) - Presentations for ABCI Users Groups (ADD LINKS)
- TAC2 conference Oxford 2005 (ADD LINK)
- Report of the Climate Train to Kyoto, 1998
- Website Flying off to a Warmer Climate" at Chooseclimate.org
Topic: The concept of the interactive Java Climate Model
- Presentation for UNEP-GRID Arendal Jun 2007
- Visualising climate-society system interactions and feedbacks (or a "learning by doing" approach to explaining climate models ),
ESSP SideEvent "Connecting Earth System Science Research to Climate Change Policy", UNFCCC SB26, May 2007 Bonn - Negotiation Role-Play Side-Event at COP9 of UNFCCC, Milano December 2004 | Leaflet
- Poster in Bern/Geneva April 2002
- Poster at IGBP Open Science Conference, Amsterdam June 2001
- Poster at Earth-System-Sciences Conference, Edinburgh May 2001
- See also internal Model Documentation in JCM-archive versions 2002-4 (ADD LINKS)
Topic: Equity in the global climate negotiations
I contributed to develop the "Contraction and Convergence" proposal with the team of the "Global Commons Institute" in 1995-6, especially at UNFCCC COP2:- Proposals for a Principled Protocol (distributed at UNFCCC COP2) -ADD LINK + Graphic
- Defending the Value of Life (GCI website 1995) -ADD LINK
- Early versions of JCM helped to illustrate options for C&C - LINK TO ARCHIVE
- I contributed to forming the "CAN-Equity group" at UNFCCC COP6, 6bis, 7
- Presentations / Poster on related topics in China, 1998 (ADD COPY TEXT / POSTER)
Topic: The Rate of Air-Sea CO2 exchange: Chemical Enhancement and Catalysis by Marine Microalgae
- PhD thesis, UEA ENV 2000 - full text available online
- Report of ESCOBA, the European Study of Carbon in the Ocean Biosphere and Atmosphere 1998 (ADD LINK)
- Abstracts accepted for carbon-cycle conferences in Puerto Rico, Cairns and Tokyo (ADD COPIES and explanation)
- Presentation to Conference on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, Heidelberg (check - Add LINK)
- Presentations to UK Oceanography in Bangor and Stirling (ADD LINKS)
- Analysis of CO2 Air-Sea Fluxes in the East-China Sea, at Ocean University of Qingdao 1998 (ADD SUMMARY / COPY PLOTS)
Other general climate conferences during this period
- Poster at "Climate and History" Conference UEA-CRU, 1997 (CHECK topics -ADD LINK)
- Participation at conference "Gaia in Oxford - The Evolution of the Superorganism" 1996 (CHECK)
Topic: The Risks of Climate Engineering
- Climate Engineering: A critical review of proposals, their scientific and political context, and possible impacts.
Paper produced for "Scientists for Global Responsibility" 1996 - Presentation at side event of UNFCCC COP3, Kyoto 1997 - webcast still available online
Topic: Fluorescence of Humic Acid Bands in Corals
- Excitation-Emission-Matrix Fluorescence spectroscopy applied to humic acid bands in coral reefs
B.J.H.Matthews, A.C.Jones, N.K.Theodorou, A.W.Tudhope, Marine Chemistry v55, 1996
(based on research in Edniburgh Univ 1993)
Topic: Evaluating The Quantity of Life - Indicators of Environment and Development
- Paper written as a student in Edinburgh, at the time of the UNCED in Rio 1992 (ADD SCAN)