Global Calculator for different climate scenarios
An open-source model of the world’s energy, land and food systems
The Global Calculator is a model of the world's energy, land and food systems to 2050. It allows you to explore the world's options for tackling climate change and see how they all add up. With the Calculator, you can find out whether everyone can have a good lifestyle while also tackling climate change. The default pathway you will see is "business as usual" if the world did nothing to tackle climate change.
The Global Calculator is an open-source model of the world's energy, land and food systems to 2050 that allows you to design your own vision of the future and see the implications for the climate instantly. It is funded by the UK Government's International Climate Fund and the EU's Climate-KIC, and has been built by an international team.
Data used in the Global Calculator comes from a range of sources. In particular, the IEA supplied most of the energy supply, demand and emissions data for 1975 to 2011. The IEA also provided the example pathways in the tool - approximations of the pathways published in the Energy Technology Perspectives 2014 report (www.iea.org/etp2014 [1]) . Other significant data sources used in the Global Calculator include the Food and Agriculture Organisation (for land use and food data) and University College London TIAM model (for costs data).
For a full documentation of the open-source model, consult the website
www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-global-calculator [2]