Regions

The combined MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM framework has global coverage and divides the world into 11 regions which are also the native regions of the MESSAGEix model (see Fig. 2 and Table 1 below). GLOBIOM natively operates at the level of 30 regions which in the linkage to MESSAGEix are aggregated to the 11 regions as listed in Table 2.

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Fig. 2 Map of 11 MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM regions including their aggregation to the four regions used in the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs).

The country definitions of the 11 MESSAGEix regions are described in the table below (Table 1). In some scenarios, the MESSAGEix region of FSU (Former Soviet Union) is disaggregated into four sub-regions resulting in a 14-region MESSAGEix model.

Table 1 Listing of 11 regions used in MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM, including their country definitions.

MESSAGE regions

Definition

List of countries

NAM

North America

Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Virgin Islands

WEU

Western Europe

Andorra, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Canary Islands, Channel Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, Faeroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

PAO

Pacific OECD

Australia, Japan, New Zealand

EEU

Central and Eastern Europe

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, The former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

FSU

Former Soviet Union

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

CPA

Centrally Planned Asia and China

Cambodia, China (incl. Hong Kong), Korea (DPR), Laos (PDR), Mongolia, Viet Nam

SAS

South Asia

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

PAS

Other Pacific Asia

American Samoa, Brunei Darussalam, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert-Kiribati, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Papua, New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan (China), Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Samoa

MEA

Middle East and North Africa

Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt (Arab Republic), Iraq, Iran (Islamic Republic), Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya/SPLAJ, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria (Arab Republic), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

LAM

Latin America and the Caribbean

Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guyana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Santa Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela

AFR

Sub-Saharan Africa

Angola, Benin, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Saint Helena, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |

In addition to the 11 geographical regions, in the glboal MESSAGEix model there is a global trade region where market clearing of global energy markets is happening and international shipping bunker fuel demand, uranium resource extraction and the nuclear fuel cycle are represented.

Table 2 Listing of 30 regions used in GLOBIOM, including their country definitions and the mapping to the 11 regions of the combined MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM model.

MESSAGE regions

GLOBIOM regions

List of countries

NAM

Canada

Canada

USA

United States of America

WEU

EU_MidWest

Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands

EU_North

Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom

EU_South

Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain

ROWE

Gibraltar, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland

Turkey

Turkey

PAO

ANZ

Australia, New Zealand

Japan

Japan

Pacific_Islands

Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu

EEU

EU_Baltic

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

EU_CentEast

Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

RCEU

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia-Montenegro

FSU

Former_USSR

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

CPA

China

China

RSEA_PAC

Cambodia, Korea DPR, Laos, Mongolia, Viet Nam

SAS

India

India

RSAS

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

PAS

South_Korea

South Korea

RSEA_OPA

Brunei Daressalaam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand

MEA

MidEastNAfr

Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

LAM

Brazil

Brazil

Mexico

Mexico

RCAM

Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Netherland Antilles, Panama, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago

RSAM

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

AFR

Congo_Basin

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial, Guinea, Gabon

EasternAf

Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

SouthAf

South Africa

RoSAfr

Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

WestCentAfr

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo