Reference card - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
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Contents
About
Name and version
MESSAGE-GLOBIOM 1.0
Institution and users
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/message-globiom/.
main users: IIASA, the MESSAGE model is distributed via the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to member countries
Model scope and methods
Model documentation: Model scope and methods - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Objective
MESSAGE-GLOBIOM is an integrated assessment framework designed to assess the transformation of the energy and land systems vis-a-vis the challenges of climate change and other sustainability issues. It consists of the energy model MESSAGE, the land use model GLOBIOM, the air pollution and GHG model GAINS, the aggregated macro-economic model MACRO and the simple climate model MAGICC.
Concept
Hybrid model (energy engineering and land use partial equilibrium models soft-linked to macro-economic general equilibrium model)
Solution method
Hybrid model (linear program optimization for the energy systems and land-use modules, non-linear program optimization for the macro-economic module)
Anticipation
Myopic/Perfect Foresight (MESSAGE can be run both with perfect foresight and myopically, while GLOBIOM runs myopically)
Temporal dimension
Base year:2010, time steps:1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040, 2050, 2060, 2070, 2080, 2090, 2100, 2110, horizon: 1990-2110
Spatial dimension
Number of regions:11+1
- AFR (Sub-Saharan Africa)
- CPA (Centrally Planned Asia & China)
- EEU (Eastern Europe)
- FSU (Former Soviet Union)
- LAM (Latin America and the Carribean)
- MEA (Middle East and North Africa)
- NAM (North America)
- PAO (Pacific OECD)
- PAS (Other Pacific Asia)
- SAS (South Asia)
- WEU (Western Europe)
- GLB (international shipping)
Policy implementation
GHG and energy taxes; GHG emission cap and permits trading; energy taxes and subsidies; micro-financing (for energy access analysis); regulation: generation capacity, production and share targets
Socio economic drivers
Model documentation: Socio-economic drivers - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Exogenous drivers
- Exogenous GDP
- Total Factor Productivity
- Labour Productivity
- Capital Technical progress
- Energy Technical progress
- Materials Technical progress
- GDP per capita
- Population
Development
- GDP per capita
- Income distribution in a region
- Urbanisation rate
- Education level
- Labour participation rate
Macro economy
Model documentation: Macro-economy - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Economic sectors
- Agriculture
- Industry
- Energy
- Transport
- Services
Cost measures
- GDP loss
- Welfare loss
- Consumption loss
- Area under MAC
- Energy system costs
Trade
- Coal
- Oil
- Gas
- Uranium
- Electricity
- Bioenergy crops
- Food crops
- Capital
- Emissions permits
- Non-energy goods
Note: bioenergy is only traded after processing to a secondary fuel (e.g. liquid biofuel)
Energy
Model documentation: Energy - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Resource use
- Coal
- Oil
- Gas
- Uranium
- Biomass
Electricity technologies
- Coal
- Gas
- Oil
- Nuclear
- Biomass
- Wind
- Solar PV
- CSS
- CSP
- Geothermal
- Hydropower
Note: CCS can be combined with coal, gas and biomass power generation technologies
Conversion technologies
- CHP
- Heat pumps
- Hydrogen
- Fuel to gas
- Fuel to liquid
Grid and infrastructure
- Electricity
- Gas
- Heat
- CO2
- H2
Energy technology substitution
- Discrete technology choices
- Expansion and decline constraints
- System integration constraints
Energy service sectors
- Transportation
- Industry
- Residential and commercial
Note: non-energy use (feedstock) of energy carriers is separately represented, but generally reported under industry
Land-use
Model documentation: Land-use - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM; Non-climate sustainability dimension - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Other resources
Model documentation: Non-climate sustainability dimension - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Other resources
- Water
- Metals
- Cement
Note: cement is not modeled as a separate commodity, but process emissions from cement production are represented
Emissions and climate
Model documentation: Emissions - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM; Climate - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Green house gasses
- CO2
- CH4
- N2O
- HFCs
- CFCs
- SFs
Pollutants
- NOx
- SOx
- BC
- OC
- Ozone
- CO
- NH3
- VOC
Climate indicators
- CO2e concentration (ppm)
- Radiative Forcing (Wm2 )
- Temperature change (C°)
- Climate damages $ or equivalent
Note: MACRO represents the economy in a single sector with the production function including capital, labor and energy nests