Policies influencing consumer behavior, such as subsidies and improved infrastructure, vital for increased uptake of #ElectricVehicles, according to new paper in Nature Energy led by IIASA and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research researchers | bit.ly/2mnoxAQ Mike Millikin, Editor

International Energy Workshop 2013 (#iew13) starts tomorrow in Paris. Energy modelers galore! International Energy Agency IIASA

Fatih Birol, IEA Chief Economist: #iew13 is the "Olympic Games of energy modeling." Too bad I left my running shoes in the hotel. International Energy Agency

Birol: special fuel focus of International Energy Agency's WEO 2013 report will be shale oil; country focus will be Brazil. Next year Africa and nuclear. #iew13

Maria van der Hoeven, Ex. Dir. IEA:"Goal of energy modeling should not be harmonization. Diversity of model results is a good thing." #iew13

The 2012 #impactfactor has been announced. We are happy to tell you that NatureClimate have received our first and it is 14.472

"A holistic approach to climate targets" requires even greater emission reduction than meeting the 2D target go.nature.com/2UH5Jb

Seeing the World’s Economy Through Connections zite.to/136iwEO via Zite

@JeffDSachs gives closing address at #efa13. Draws on wisdom of JFK to reflect on current set of global challenges. IIASA

@JeffDSachs IIASA #efa13

Come join IIASA's #energy team as our program secretary bit.ly/1aM4FwG

Less than a week left to apply for #SAYSSP-3 months of funded research in South Africa. Deadline 1 Sep. bit.ly/1bMGpZ5

EMF27 on Transport electrification can play a key role in climate stabilization David McCollum link.springer.com/article/10.100… #springerlink

Welcome to the 2013-14 participants in our #SAYSSP program! bit.ly/1en3PW2 UFS @dstgovza

New study from IIASA, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK, @Stanford_Energy: Carbon capture could be vital for climate targets bit.ly/JdDz6D

Annual hours of sunshine in Europe and America Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_… -

To give a sense of scale, the United States overlaid onto the moon

How much snow it typically takes to cancel school in the US

US GDP split in half Credit to: atrubetskoy -