ADVANCE: Advanced Model Development and Validation for Improved Analysis of Costs and Impacts of Mitigation Policies, for the European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
Integrated assessment and energy-economy models have become central tools for informing long-term global and regional climate mitigation strategies. There is a large demand for improved representations of complex system interactions and thorough validation of model behaviour in order to increase user confidence in climate policy assessments. ADVANCE aims to respond to this demand by facilitating the development of a new generation of integrated assessment models. This will be achieved by substantial progress in key areas where model improvements are greatly needed: end use and energy service demand; representation of heterogeneity, behaviour, innovation and consumer choices; technical change and uncertainty; system integration, path dependencies and resource constraints; and economic impacts of mitigation policies. In the past, methodological innovations and improvements were hindered by the unavailability of suitable input data. The ADVANCE project will make a large and coordinated effort to generate relevant datasets. These datasets, along with newly developed methodologies, will be made available to the broader scientific community as open-access resources. ADVANCE will also put a focus on improved model transparency, model validation, and data handling. A central objective of ADVANCE is to evaluate and to improve the suitability of models for climate policy impact assessments. The improved models will be applied to an assessment of long-term EU climate policy in a global context, and disseminated to the wider community.
Project Coordinator
Potsdam‐Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e. V. (PIK)
Partners
- Institute of Communication and Computer System (ICCS)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL)
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
- European Commission JRC ‐ Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
- University College London (UCL)
- Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED)
- University of East Anglia (UEA)
- Université de Grenoble 2 ‐ Économie du Développement Durable et de l'Énergie (UG2‐EDDEN)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- Institut für Technische Thermodynamik, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‐ und Raumfahrt (DLR)
- Utrecht University (UU)
For further information please visit ADVANCE website
