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Countries included within the model are grouped into 14 regions clustered by geography, income and the structure of energy demand. Regional disaggregation can be easily performed subject to the issue being tackled.
Countries included within the model are grouped into 17 regions clustered by geography, income and the structure of energy demand.  


[[File:35815545.png]]<br />'''Figure 1.1: Regions of the WITCH model (except that India and Indonesia are not detached from their former regions, sasia and easia, respectively).'''
Regional disaggregation is now flexible and the model can be run on different model configurations, typically from 5 to 17 regions, or more.


The 14 regions are:
[[File:WITCH Regional Aggregation.png]]<br />'''Figure 1.1: Regions of the WITCH model (except that India and Indonesia are not detached from their former regions, sasia and easia, respectively).'''


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The 17 regions are:
 
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Revision as of 12:26, 3 March 2020

Model Documentation - WITCH

Corresponding documentation
Previous versions
Model information
Model link
Institution European Institute on Economics and the Environment (RFF-CMCC EIEE), Italy, http://www.eiee.org.
Solution concept General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method Optimization
Anticipation

Countries included within the model are grouped into 17 regions clustered by geography, income and the structure of energy demand.

Regional disaggregation is now flexible and the model can be run on different model configurations, typically from 5 to 17 regions, or more.

WITCH Regional Aggregation.png
Figure 1.1: Regions of the WITCH model (except that India and Indonesia are not detached from their former regions, sasia and easia, respectively).

The 17 regions are:

Region Countries
cajaz Canada, Japan, New Zealand
china China, including Taiwan
easia South East Asia
india India
indonesia Indonesia
kosau South Korea, South Africa, Australia
laca Latin America, Mexico and Caribbean
mena Middle East and North Africa
neweuro EU new countries + Switzerland + Norway
oldeuro EU old countries (EU-15)
sasia South Asia
ssa Sub Saharan Africa
te Non-EU Eastern European countries, including Russia
usa United States of America

WITCH features any regional aggregations in the so-called coalitions. Some common coalitions are:

  • regional coalitions : each region is mapped to a coalition containing only this region.
  • world coalition : a coalition containing all the world regions.

Coalitions and regions interact with each others because of the presence of economic (technology, exhaustible natural resources) and environmental global externalities.