The global dimension of environmental policy, which has become a subject of international policy with the concrete discussion of targets and instruments, constitutes a huge information gap for environmental policy. The authors postulate, that this can only be filled by the application of global...

Globally integrated modelling is achieved by employing trade matrices for linking country models. In the case of COMPASS, this is achieved by having time series for trade matrices of 25 commodity groups linking 53 countries and regions. In addition to country models that are estimated...

GINFORS (Global INterindustry FORecasting System) represents a state of the art tool for integrated quantitative policy assessments of long run economic developments and associated pressures on the environment. Its empirical modelling framework rests on national input output accounts which are...