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TECHNICAL NOTE - A GREEN ECONOMY MODEL FOR INDIA: TECHNICAL SUMMARY OF METHODS AND DATA USED

17 Feb 2022

The note outlines in the atmosphere involves commitments from various the development and components of the green economy nations to curb their current and future emissions from model for India (GEM-India), a system dynamics model human activity and improving the ability of populations tailored to the Indian context. [...] sarily be equivalent in benefits and security to—the jobs The section lays down the systems diagram that the lost in the fossil fuel sector, creating concerns about the GEM is based on and the causal relations between vari- justness of the economic transition and its subnational ables. [...] The similarity between between the EPS and GEM-India are in the disaggrega- the models is that certain assumptions in the model tion of the data being used and the way each sector is can be modified and the scenarios then are automati- being considered. [...] Figures 15 and 16 give examples of the structural theory and focus on the environment, the energy sector, differences between the EPS and GEM’s depiction of and the economy. [...] Apart from the simplifications within the structure of the model, a significant limitation in the data collection The outputs of such models are “what if” scenarios was the lack of continuous data from 2000 to 2020 that convey a set of conditions and assumptions and across sectors.
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