NEGOCLIM (Modeling and Simulating Climate Negotiations) & Workshop RICE-N

The NEGOCLIM seminar (Modeling and Simulation of Climate Negotiations) will take place from Wednesday, October 9 to Friday, October 11, 2024 at Université Sorbonne, LIP6 (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6), 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris.

🗓 Seminar Program

Wednesday, October 9
10:00 – Welcome and introduction to the NEGOCLIM project
10:30 – Jean-Philippe Cointet (MediaLab, Sciences Po) – How Least Developed Countries Find Their Voice in International Climate Negotiations
11:30 – Coffee Break
11:45 – Nicola Botta (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) – From Formalizing Vulnerability to Estimating Decision Impacts: How Linear Programming Can Aid Climate Decision-Making
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – Adrien Fabre (International Research Center on Environment and Development) – A Shared Vision for Global Climate Justice
15:00 – Coffee Break
15:30 – Wietse Bosman (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) – Multi-level Agent-Based Modeling for Climate Negotiations
16:00 – Open Discussion

Thursday, October 10
09:30 – 12:30 – Introduction to integrated assessment models (RICE), multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), RICE-N modules (FAIR climate module, trade, climate agreement modeling, reward shaping, JAX GPU scalability, carbon leakage, heterogeneous reductions)
14:00 – 18:00 – Multi-level social choice, negotiation in RICE-N, working groups to design new negotiation protocols, documentation and presentation of results, RICE-N code presentation

Friday, October 11
09:30 – 12:30 – Hands-on work with RICE-N: training, evaluation, debugging, implementing a new negotiation protocol
14:00 – 18:00 – Current state of RICE-N, climate clubs with RICE-N, RICE-N working groups, brainstorming potential collaborations

📝 Registration

Wednesday, October 9 (lectures): Free but mandatory. Registration form: link

Thursday and Friday, October 10–11 (RICE-N workshop): Free but mandatory. Email nicolas.maudet@lip6.fr

📍 Locations

Wednesday, October 9: Room 105, 1st floor, Towers 25-26

Thursday–Friday, October 10–11: Room 534, 5th floor, Tower 26-00

For more information, visit the official seminar page: NEGOCLIM – October 2024 Workshop