EU economy-wide climate mitigation modelling
EUClimit-I: "Development and application of EU economy-wide climate mitigation modelling capacity (all greenhouse gas emissions and removals)"
EUClimit-II: "Modelling of EU climate policies"
EUClimit-III: "Modelling of EU climate policies"
EUClimit-IV: "Assessment of EU Climate Policies in a EU mid-century perspective"
EUClimit- V: "Model based evaluation of EU climate policies"
EUClimit- VI: "Model based evaluation of EU climate policies"
Funding
EU Commission, DG CLIMA (climate action)
Duration
EUClimit-I: September 2011 – January 2014
EUClimit-II: July 2014 – May 2016
EUClimit-III: January 2016 – March 2018
EUClimit-IV: November 2017 – November 2019
EUClimit-V: October 2019 – December 2021
EUClimit-VI: December 2021 – ongoing
Organisation
Project leader:
- ICCS (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of the National Technical University of Athens), Athens, Greece (EuClimit-I - EuClimit-IV)
- E3Modelling S.A. Athens (EUCLIMIT-V, EUCLIMT-VI)
Sub-contractors:
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
- EuroCARE GmbH
- Exergia (Energy and Environment Consultants), Athens, Greece
Overview
The EUCLIMIT projects always included the following tasks:
- Task 1: Improving the modeling tools and their linkages
- Task 2: Updating or constructing one or more baseline projections for greenhouse gas emissions, energy and land use in the EU Member-States and in candidate countries
- Task 3: Policy scenarios and sensitivity analyses to assess implications of climate policies (under EUCLIMIT-II including competitiveness and employment effects in the agricultural and forestry sectors)
- Task 4: Information for and interaction with Member-State experts and stakeholders.
Contributions of EuroCARE
The CAPRI model was used to provide livestock and fertiliser activity levels for GAINS, including model inputs taken from PRIMES-Biomass or from GLOBIOM. Under the EUCLIMIT-II amendment a set of co-ordinated carbon price scenarios has been prepared with GLOBIOM where CAPRI delivered the non-CO2 mitigation results. EUCLIMIT-III required an extension of the projection horizon to 2070 and a post-model reporting tool for agricultural activity changes in Iceland. Euclimit-V delivers the CAPRI baseline until 2070 in 5-year steps according to the developed methodology as part of the earlier "EUCLIMIT" projects. A new baseline contains three types of updates: updated ex post data, updated external projections and updated policy guidelines, if already decided upon. An actual baseline including a set of policy scenarios with regard to GHG reduction are demanded in Euclimit-VI.
Documents
P. Capros, A. De Vita, N. Tasios, D. Papadopoulos, P. Siskos, E. Apostolaki, M. Zampara, L. Paroussos, K. Fragiadakis, N. Kouvaritakis, L. Höglund-Isaksson, W. Winiwarter, P. Purohit, H. Böttcher, S. Frank, P. Havlík, M. Gusti, H. P. Witzke: Reference Scenario 2013 - EU Energy, transport and GHG emissions, Trends to 2050, Publications Office of the European Union, 2013, ISBN 9789279337284, doi: 10.2833/17897.
P. Capros, A. De Vita, N. Tasios, P. Siskos, M. Kannavou, A. Petropoulos, S. Evangelopoulou, M. Zampara, D. Papadopoulos, L. Paroussos, K. Fragiadakis, S.Tsani, P. Fragkos, N. Kouvaritakis, L. Höglund-Isaksson, W. Winiwarter, P. Purohit, A. Gomez-Sanabria, S. Frank, N. Forsell, M. Gusti, P. Havlík, M. Obersteiner, H. P. Witzke, M. Kesting: EU Reference Scenario 2016 - Energy, transport and GHG emissions, Trends to 2050, Publications Office of the European Union, 2016, ISBN 9279523740, 9789279523748
