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Climate Change Modelling Using CGE Models

TRAINING DATES: 1st September – 5th September 2025
COUNTRY: Kenya-Mombasa

Overview

  • Assembling Data for Climate Change variables
  • Nesting Climate Change in CGE models
  • Adjusting CGE equations to capture climate change
  • Specifications of Damage functions for CGE models
  • Integrating biophysical parameters into CGE models
  • Building simulations to achieve Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) as specified in the 2015 Paris agreements.

Course Content

Session/DayLecture Topic Lab session
Module 1
Global climate change developments
-Global partnerships, commitments and development on climate change
-Trends of emissions and extreme weather disasters
-Discussion of models used for climate change adaptation and mitigation
-Biophysical studies and climate change

Group discussion on climate change adaptation an mitigation

Module 2
Building the Static and Dynamic CGE models without climate change
-Theoretical recap of CGE models
-Building a Static CGE model
-Building a Dynamic CGE model
-Interpretation and analysis of the matrices.

Policy simulations in static CGE models

Adding dynamic equations to static CGE models

Module 3
Customising climate change data to Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs)
-Building SAMs
-Satellite accounts for climate related variables (emissions, energy, water, land and other natural resource accounts)
-Customising climate satellite accounts to SAMs

Building satellite accounts for climate change

Customising climate satellite accounts to CGE models

Module 4
Nesting climate change into CGE models
-Adjusting CGE equations to capture climate change variables
-Adding damage functions to CGE models
-Integrating biophysical parameters in CGE models
-Integrating carbon taxes

Adjusting CGE equations to add climate change

Module 5
Policy simulations and policy analysis
-Climate Policy simulations in CGE models
-Simulations on attaining commitments to emission reductions
-Interpreting climate policy results from CGE models

Policy simulations  on attaining Nationally Determined

Contributions (NDCs) as specified in the 2015 Paris agreements