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The site was
produced as part of a project for the class "Climate Change Policy" given
at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. It
offers an overview of the benefits and costs of climate change mitigation,
with a discussion of the costs of emissions reductions and carbon
sequestration and the various economic models used in such calculations.
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Also known as
the Edmonds-Reilly model, this model runs on an IBM PC and is available
from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). The model has
the capability to calculate both CO2 (carbon dioxide) and CH4 (methane)
emission estimates by source and region. Population, labor productivity,
end-use energy efficiency, income effects, price effects, resource base,
technological change in energy production, environmental costs of energy
production, market-penetration rate of energy-supply technology, solar and
biomass energy costs, synfuel costs, and the number of forecast periods
may be interactively inspected and altered producing a variety of global
and regional CO2 and CH4 emission scenarios for 1975 through 2100.
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Part of the
Department of Energy's (DOE) Biological and Environmental Sciences
Research Program, the Integrated Assessment program integrates simplified
representations of the entire global climate system, emphasizing
greenhouse gas emissions and actions that would affect emissions. The
results of this research provide a foundation for subsequent policy
analysis or decision making. The estimated costs of certain actions can be
weighed against predicted changes in impacts. The research program also
helps the climate change research community better identify priority
scientific topics. The website contains research abstracts, research
opportunity notices, fellowship information and links to research topics.
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The website
describes MIT's Integrated Global System Model (IGSM), and links to online
reports from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global
Change, an organization for research, independent policy analysis, and
public education in global environmental change. The IGSM model is
designed for simulating the global environmental changes that may arise as
a result of anthropogenic causes, the uncertainties associated with the
projected changes, and the effect of proposed policies on such changes.
The model includes an economic model for analysis of greenhouse and
aerosol precursor gas emissions and mitigation proposals.
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The Model
Visualization and Analysis Service (MVA) provides background information
on the use of integrated assessment to examine the relationship between
human activities and global climate change, descriptions of integrated
assessment models (IAMs), and access to model-generated output.
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This database
contains data from both intervention and non-intervention scenarios of
future emissions of greenhouse gases, supporting the activities of the
IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenario (SRES). The goal of the SRES was
to provide a basis for analysis of potential future climatic changes and
associated impacts as well as a reference for socio-economic analysis of
long-term mitigation options. Several of the scenarios are the results of
an integrated assessment (IA) model - they take into consideration the
interactions between energy, economy, and land use changes.
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