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The Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) is a model developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (as part of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change) to understand the interactions between humans and the global climate system.

History
IGSM was introduced in 1999 in a paper by Roland Prinn et al. in a paper in Climatic Change Version 2 was released in 2005.

Academic reception
The IGSM has been referenced by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The IGSM has also been referenced in academic literature on climate systems, human activity, and policy implications. Version 1 was used by the model creators for an analysis of the Kyoto Protocol in a 1999 paper for Nature. Version 2.2 was used by the creators of the model in a study published as a working paper in 2008. A modified version was published in Climatic Change in 2011 A 2012 working paper did an analysis of climate policy targets under uncertainty.

Independent authors have also referenced the IGSM.