PANTA RHEI provides a detailed treatment of Germany's economy, linked to energy use and atmospheric emissions. The model is suitable for assessing changes in taxation policy and sectoral efficiency and has a detailed sectoral disaggregation.
The model is mainly used for:
analysis of long-term changes in energy demand and supply and in an economy;
estimating the impact of different climate policy instruments;
forecast of energy emissions.
Particular relevance
PANTA-RHEI is relevant in analysing the economic and trade impacts of mitigation policy in Germany. The model's detail makes it suitable for looking at energy-efficiency policy and tax/subsidy schemes.
Coverage
Germany
Model applications
Entwicklung der Flächeninanspruchnahme für Siedlung und Verkehr bis 2020 - Ergebnisse des regionalisierten Modells PANTA RHEI REGIO - PANTA RHEI is used to analyse the development of land use for settlement and traffic by 2020. Apart from outcomes for land use, the modelling results showed economic costs/benefits and possible GHG impacts ( http://gws-os.com/discussionpapers/gws-paper08-7.pdf).
Organization's main area of research
Analysis of changes of industry structures.
Other projects / reseach
INDI-LINK (Indicator-based evaluation of interlinkages between different sustainable development objectives) - The INDI-LINK project further improves EU Sustainable Development Indicators, assesses the interlinkages between the different priorities of the renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy (including energy, climate change and socio-economic development) and derives policy conclusions for its implementation (http://www.indi-link.net/).