Wednesday 9th of October

10:00 | Welcome and presentation of the NEGOCLIM project

10:30 | Jean-Philippe Cointet (MediaLab Sciences Po) How the Least Developed Countries find their voice in international climate negotiations 

11:00 | Coffee

11:30 | Nicola Botta (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) From formalizing vulnerability to estimating how much decisions matter: can FP help climate decision making? 

12:30 | Lunch

14:00 | Adrien Fabre (Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement) A shared vision towards global climate justice (joint work with Rabah Arezki, Dipak Dasgupta, Bin Hu, Partha Sen, and Rick van der Ploeg)

15:00 | Coffee

15:30 | Wietse Bosman (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Multilevel Agent-Based Modelling for Climate Policy Negotiations 

16:00 | Discussion

RICE-N Workshop

Main instructors: Koen Ponse (Leiden University) and Phillip Wozny (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Tilburg University)

Summary: RICE-N is global integrated assessment model (IAM) which uses multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to capture the inter-agent dynamics of climate negotiation. Over the course of two days we will dive into IAMS, key concepts of MARL, the nuts and bolts of RICE-N, and the current state of RICE-N research. In a series of hands on sessions we will ideate and implement novel negotiation protocols in RICE-N. 

Thursday 10th of October

09:30 - 12:30 | Morning session

• Introduction to integrated assessment models (RICE)

• Introduction to (multi-agent) reinforcement learning (MARL)

• • Key Concepts

  • RL for Negotiation (Tianyu)

• Overview of RICE-N (using MARL for negotiation in RICE) modules

• • FAIR climate module (Kai)

  • Trade

  • Modeling climate agreements

  • Reward Shaping

  • JAX for GPU scalability (Koen)

  • Carbon Leakage / Abatement disparity
    
    

14:00 - 18:00 | Afternoon session

• Multi-Level Social Choice (Weitse)

• Negotiation in RICE-N

• Breakout-groups

• • Ideate possible negotiation protocols

  • Document with Pseudocode

  • Present findings

• RICE-N Codebase walkthrough (Andrew)

Friday 11th of October

09:30 - 12:30 | Morning session

• Working with RICE-N

• • Train / Eval / Debug

• Walkthrough process of implementing a new negotiation protocol

• Breakout groups:

• • Implement your negotiation protocol from yesterday

  • Train and eval protocols

14:00 - 18:00 | Afternoon session

• Current state of RICE-N

• Climate Clubs with RICE-N

• RICE-N working groups

• Brainstorm potential collaborations

Registration to the talks and the RICE-N workshop are free but mandatory.

• Wednesday 9th of October (talks): complete this form (open until maximum capacity is reached)

• Thursday 10th & Friday 11th of October (RICE-N workshop): send an e-mail to <nicolas.maudet@lip6.fr> (places are limited)