GECS: Greenhouse Gas Emission Control Strategies, for European Commission, DG Research
The project aimed at providing insights for European climate policy, while assessing different greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies for the 2010 and 2030 horizons, by world region. The study combined the use and development of world energy sector model (POLES) and of a General Equilibrium Model (GEM-E3), with policy oriented research on emission targets and flexibility scenarios, in the perspective of sustainable development. These scenario encompassed issues of targets, as well as rules for "What" and "Where" flexibility in the compliance to the Kyoto Protocol. They also addressed post-2010 targets, in terms of possible entitlements for "Annex B" and "Non-Annex B" countries and the issue of "When" flexibility. For the full economic assessment of the scenarios, the models improved in order to model carbon risks and other than energy CO2 Greenhouse gases and to account for international interdependencies in mitigation strategies.
Project Coordinator
Institut d'Economie et de Politique de l'Energie, CNRS-IEPE (Grenoble)
Partners
- E3M-Lab, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Athens)
- Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC-IPTS (Seville)
- Centre for Economic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, CES-KUL (Leuven)
- Bureau federal du Plan, BFP (Bruxelles)
- Centre International de Recherche sur l'Agriculture et le Developpement, CIRAD (Paris)
- National Institute for Public Health and Environment, RIVM (Bilthoven)
- Universite Pierre Mendes (Grenoble)
- Centre for European Economic Research GmbH, ZEW (Mannheim)
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