Background Report: An Overview of the OECD ENV-Linkages model

This document provides a detailed technical description of the ENV-Linkages model. The OECD ENV-Linkages Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is an economic model that describes how economic activities are inter-linked across several macroeconomic sectors and regions. It links economic activity to environmental pressure, specifically to emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The links between economic activities and emissions are projected for several decades into the future, and thus shed light on the impacts of environmental policies for the medium- and long-term future. In this paper specific attention is given to the equations that form the core of the model. The version of the model presented here is used for analysis carried out for the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 (OECD, 2012). An updated version of the model is expected to play a key role in the new CIRCLE project (OECD, 2013). Ce manuel donne une description detaillee du modele ENV-Linkages. Le modele ENV-Linkages de l’OECD est un modele d’Equilibre General Calculable (MEGC) qui decrit les relations economiques entre secteurs d’activite, pays et agents economiques. Le modele associe les emissions de gaz a effet de serre aux differentes activites economiques reproduites. Les liens entre les emissions et les activites economiques sont projetes a un horizon de plusieurs decennies, mettant ainsi en avant les impacts a moyen et long terme des politiques environnementales. L’attention est portee dans ce document sur une description technique des equations sous-jacentes du modele. La version du modele presentee est celle utilisee dans les Perspectives de l’environnement a l’horizon 2050 (OECD, 2012). Une version mise a jour du modele jouera un role essentiel dans le nouveau projet CIRCLE (OCDE, 2013).

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