Socio-economic drivers - BLUES

Model Documentation - BLUES
Socio-economic drivers - BLUES Population - BLUES Economic activity - BLUES Macro-economy - BLUES Production system and representation of economic sectors - BLUES Capital and labour markets - BLUES Monetary instruments - BLUES Trade - BLUES Technological change - BLUES Energy - BLUES Energy resource endowments - BLUES Fossil energy resources - BLUES Uranium and other fissile resources - BLUES Bioenergy - BLUES Non-biomass renewables - BLUES Energy conversion - BLUES Electricity - BLUES Heat - BLUES Gaseous fuels - BLUES Liquid fuels - BLUES Solid fuels - BLUES Grid, pipelines and other infrastructure - BLUES Energy end-use - BLUES Transport - BLUES Residential and commercial sectors - BLUES Industrial sector - BLUES Other end-use - BLUES Energy demand - BLUES Technological change in energy - BLUES Land-use - BLUES Agriculture - BLUES Forestry - BLUES Land-use change - BLUES Bioenergy land-use - BLUES Other land-use - BLUES Agricultural demand - BLUES Technological change in land-use - BLUES Emissions - BLUES GHGs - BLUES Pollutants and non-GHG forcing agents - BLUES Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) options - BLUES Climate - BLUES Modelling of climate indicators - BLUES Climate damages, temperature changes - BLUES Non-climate sustainability dimension - BLUES Air pollution and health - BLUES Water - BLUES Other materials - BLUES Other sustainability dimensions - BLUES Appendices - BLUES Mathematical model description - BLUES Data - BLUES References - BLUES
Corresponding documentation
AIM-Hub BLUES C3IAM DNE21+ GCAM GEM-E3 GRACE IFs IMACLIM IMAGE MESSAGE-GLOBIOM POLES PROMETHEUS REMIND-MAgPIE TIAM-UCL WITCH
Previous versions
Archive of BLUES version 1.0
Model information
Model link	https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0213-y
Institution	COPPE/UFRJ (Cenergia), Brazil, http://www.cenergialab.coppe.ufrj.br/.
Solution concept	General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method	Optimization
Anticipation

Population and GDP (MER) are the main exogenous socio-economic drivers behind demand projections in the Reference scenario implemented in BLUES. Demand projections are derived from GDP and population projections through econometric and regression techniques.