Keywan Riahi

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Keywan Riahi is an Austrian energy scientist. He heads the energy program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and is a lecturer in energy systems analysis at the Graz University of Technology .

Life

Riahi worked as a consultant in the 1990s. He has been employed at IIASA since 1997, initially as a research assistant, from 2005 to 2008 as a scientific coordinator and since 2008 as head of the energy program. Since 2006 he has also been a lecturer for energy system analysis at the Institute for Thermal Engineering at the Graz University of Technology.

Act

Riahi's main research interests are long-term patterns of technological change and economic development , particularly the development of the energy system . Most recently, his research focused on energy-related sources of global change and future development and response strategies in connection with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Since 1998, Riahi has been the chief author and reviewer responsible for various international assessment reports , such as the Global Energy Assessment (GEA), The World in 2050 (TWI2050) and reports from the IPCC , including the Third , Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports , the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES), the Special Report on CO2 Capture and Storage (SRCCS) and the Special Report on Renewable Energy (SRREN) by the IPCC. Riahi is also one of the authors of the IPCC's special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees (2018).

Publications (selection)

  • RH Moss et al: The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment. In: Nature . Volume 463, No. 7282, 2010, p. 747.
  • K. Riahi et al: RCP 8.5 — A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions. In: Climatic Change . Volume 109, No. 1–2, 2011, p. 33.
  • DP Van Vuuren et al .: The representative concentration pathways: an overview. In: Climatic Change. Volume 109, No. 1-2, 2011, p. 5.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.ipcc.ch/report/authors/report.authors.php?q=32&p=  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ipcc.ch  
  2. ↑ a b c d http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchPrograms/Energy/Keywan-Riahi.en.html
  3. ↑ a b c http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchPrograms/Energy/00_Riahi_Feb16.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Riahi, Keywan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian energy scientist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1990