Application of the Provincial-Scale GCAM-Canada Model for Assessment of Carbon Removal and Reduction Technologies in the Energy and Building Sectors

Lead Proponent

The Governors of the University of Alberta

Project Objectives

The objective of this project is to modify the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM)-Canada model to include carbon removal, Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS), and enhance the building sector.

Expected Results

This project aims to:

1. Address a major gap by creating an open-source Canadian iteration of the widely used GCAM model, enhancing the real-world relevance of its input and output data. The model and results will be publicly available on an online platform.
2. Strengthen Canada’s energy modelling ecosystem by developing a Canada-specific iteration of a global model, which may generate significant spin-offs.