Model scope and methods - C3IAM

Model Documentation - C3IAM
Model scope and methods - C3IAM Model concept, solver and details - C3IAM Temporal dimension - C3IAM Spatial dimension - C3IAM Policy - C3IAM Socio-economic drivers - C3IAM Population - C3IAM Economic activity - C3IAM Macro-economy - C3IAM Production system and representation of economic sectors - C3IAM Capital and labour markets - C3IAM Monetary instruments - C3IAM Trade - C3IAM Technological change - C3IAM Energy - C3IAM Energy resource endowments - C3IAM Fossil energy resources - C3IAM Uranium and other fissile resources - C3IAM Bioenergy - C3IAM Non-biomass renewables - C3IAM Energy conversion - C3IAM Electricity - C3IAM Heat - C3IAM Gaseous fuels - C3IAM Liquid fuels - C3IAM Solid fuels - C3IAM Grid, pipelines and other infrastructure - C3IAM Energy end-use - C3IAM Transport - C3IAM Residential and commercial sectors - C3IAM Industrial sector - C3IAM Other end-use - C3IAM Energy demand - C3IAM Technological change in energy - C3IAM Land-use - C3IAM Agriculture - C3IAM Forestry - C3IAM Land-use change - C3IAM Bioenergy land-use - C3IAM Other land-use - C3IAM Agricultural demand - C3IAM Technological change in land-use - C3IAM Emissions - C3IAM GHGs - C3IAM Pollutants and non-GHG forcing agents - C3IAM Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) options - C3IAM Climate - C3IAM Modelling of climate indicators - C3IAM Climate damages, temperature changes - C3IAM Non-climate sustainability dimension - C3IAM Air pollution and health - C3IAM Water - C3IAM Other materials - C3IAM Other sustainability dimensions - C3IAM Appendices - C3IAM Mathematical model description - C3IAM Data - C3IAM References - C3IAM
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AIM-Hub C3IAM COFFEE-TEA DNE21+ GCAM GEM-E3 GRACE IFs IMACLIM IMAGE MESSAGE-GLOBIOM POLES PROMETHEUS REMIND-MAgPIE TIAM-UCL WITCH
Previous versions
Archive of C3IAM version 2.0
Model information
Model link	http://inems1.bit.edu.cn/C3IAM https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/nathaz/v92y2018i2d10.1007 s11069-018-3297-9.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15453-z
Institution	Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology (CEEP-BIT), China, http://ceep.bit.edu.cn/english/.
Solution concept	General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method	Optimization
Anticipation

C³IAM consists of various analytical models developed to analyze policy issues within a specific set of sectors as shown in Figure 1. These models are interlinked to provide an integrated system for assessing the impact of climate change. C³IAM considers factors such as global multi-regional, multi-sectoral economic development, greenhouse gas emissions, emission reduction costs, climate change losses module, etc. It can not only depict the social economic system in detail, but also realize a long-term balanced growth path.

To apply C³IAM, all model settings are adjusted so that the model reproduces the state-of-the-world in 2011 and cover the period 2011–2100.

C³IAM pays more attention to clarify the comprehensive impacts of climate change and it has a better performance in the following various aspects:

1. More in-depth depiction of China: to refine the emissions pathway from the perspective of regional and sectoral, the Multi-Regional CGE Model (C³IAM/MR.CEEPA) that covers 31 provinces and the multi-sector technology model (C³IAM/NET) that covers eight energy-intensive industries are developed;

2. Extension of economic model: to capture the long-term optimal economic growth and climate change mitigation dynamically, C³IAM integrates the global CGE model (C³IAM/GEEPA) and the global economic optimum growth model (C³IAM/EcOp);

3. Realizing the hard link between the earth and socioeconomic systems: the economic models are integrated with earth system model, and the two-way feedbacks could be achieved.

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Figure 1. The general structure of C³IAM

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