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This SEI Working Paper introduces the Adaptable Macroeconomic Extension for Sustainability analysis (AMES). AMES is a multi-sector, demand-led, structuralist model designed to provide consistent economic drivers to the widely used Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP). The focus is on low-emission development strategies in low- and middle-income countries.
Together, LEAP and AMES form a hybrid energy-economy model that combines two approaches: bottom-up energy-systems analysis and top-down macroeconometric assessments. Because of its focus on low- and middle-income countries, AMES can simulate structural change. Moreover, unlike most macroeconomic models used for energy analysis, AMES exhibits hysteresis, in which, for example, an energy investment programme can lead to persistent, positive impacts on GDP and employment. An open-source tool hosted on GitHub, AMES is a flexible model designed to be adapted for specific needs and studies.
Tool / The Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) is a powerful, versatile system for energy planning and climate change mitigation assessment.
Initiative / This initiative enables integrated national planning for Nationally Determined Contributions and Sustainable Development Goals.
SEI brief / This brief highlights SEI's efforts to provide low- and middle-income countries with tools and training needed to integrate climate and development planning.
Tool / The Next Energy Modeling system for Optimization (NEMO) is a high-performance, open-source optimization tool designed to answer energy policy questions.
Perspective / Responding to a New York Times column about the end of neoliberalism, SEI's Eric Kemp-Benedict encourages context-based policy-making over economic orthodoxy.
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