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.