IMACLIM-country Platform

In order to facilitate the extension of IMACLIM to a new regional scale, a rationalization of the tool, initially IMACLIM-S, was carried out with the IMACLIM-country “platform”.

Based on a common code (Scilab), and according to the available input data, the tool offers, for example, the flexibility: to choose the country studied, the level of sectoral disaggregation, the number of income classes, or even the type of use of carbon tax revenue.

The development of an IMACLIM-Country is generally done in pairs with a local team. For a given country, new mechanisms may be required to deal with the identified problem. Having a single tool allows the teams working in another region to directly benefit of the development of these mechanisms.

The IMACLIM-Pays platform code is hosted on Github in order to provide a collaborative tool between the various partners of the IMACLIM network. This allows us to have a version-controlled model and to follow developments. For the sake of transparency and reproducibility, the open access platform is archived and published on Zenodo, which allows a DOI to be assigned to the model and to be cited¹ in the reviews and to meet requirements. This also makes possible to follow up the different versions of the model.

¹Gaëlle Le Treut, Emmanuel Combet, Julien Lefèvre, Antoine Teixeira, & Alexis Baudin. (2019, September 10). IMACLIM-Country platform: a country-scale computable general equilibrium model (Version V1.1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3403961

For more information on IMACLIM-Country modeling: http://www2.centre-cired.fr/IMACLIM/Description-des-modeles-IMACLIM/IMACLIM-Pays/article/IMACLIM-Pays

Figure 1: The IMACLIM-Country platform is archived in Zenodo in free access.

Figure 2: Country models are built around a common code, the “master”, on the GitHub platform.