Modeling the economics of greenhouse gas mitigation : summary of a workshop

摘要: Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is a wide array models to perform such analysis, differing in level technological detail, treatment progress, spatial sector details, representation interaction energy overall economy environment. These differences impact model results, including cost estimates. More fundamentally, these differ as how they represent processes that have large on policy analysis--such learning reductions come through increasing production volumes, or baseline conditions. Reliable estimates potential impacts United States various emissions reduction other mitigation strategies critical development federal climate change research portfolio. At request U.S. Department Energy (DOE), National Academies organized workshop, summarized this volume, consider some types modeling issues.