New release of the IMACLIM-Country platform
Sum-up of the improvements
New technical features
- Selection of the country: flexibility to run IMACLIM on different countries by informing the set of calibration data. So far, the model can run on Argentina, Brazil and France:
- France is calibrated at year 2010 as in previous version: recalibration for a more recent year under progress and data publication process
- Brazil is calibrated at year 2015. Publication of data under progress.
- Argentina is calibrated at year 2012. Publication of data under progress
- Selection of the number of step for resolution: possibility of a year-by-year resolution for prospective analysis
- Optimization of the resolution: time of runs and run robustness improved by alleviating the “fsolve” system
- Outputs: indicators /BY or year before, outputs with Python
- Development of a robot to test different configurations of the model and ensure consistency of developments
- Development of a simulation robot to run several simulations with different settings
New Economic features
- Border tax adjustment: possibility of added a carbon tax on country imports
- Investment matrix: possibility of disaggregating the Investment column to distinguish which sectors are pushing the investment
- Articulation with bottom-up model: intermediate consumption, capital consumption, labour or their respective intensities, as well as investment, coming from BU model can be “forced” into the resolution
- Setting different uses of carbon tax revenues under public budget constraints: still under progress for new uses
- Boundaries conditions for prospective exercises with exogenous information on: import prices and on exports possibilities, carbon intensities for assessing embodied emissions in imports
Since the last release, this version release benefits from news collaborators, Antoine Teixeira (CIRED) and Alexis Baudin (ENS-Cachan)