Competence Centre on Modelling and Decision Analysis

CC-MOD promotes transparency and coherence in model use by encouraging traceability and openness of evidence that underpins policy making at the Commission

CC-MOD organises peer-reviews by external experts of model quality and transparency

The paper identifies various conceptualisations of green growth with a view to identify the causal mechanisms which can support a green growth policy agenda, to investigate the implications of these...

Attempts to curb pollution or reduce resource consumption while maintaining growth and thus to achieve what is often referred to as green growth are frequently compromised by rebound...

This report addresses the debate on the Better Regulation Agenda adopted by the European Commission in 2015 (BR 2015). The review is structured according to the following major areas: i) evidence-based...

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis was conducted on the SHERPA model, predicting air quality improvement linked to emission reduction scenarios. Major responsible of output uncertainty (PM2.5...

An integral part of the model quality control and quality assurance at the European Commission is a scientific peer-review of models, including those developed and used by its Directorate-General Joint Research...

Air quality has significantly improved in Europe over the past few decades. Nonetheless we still find high concentrations in measurements mainly in specific regions...

Security of gas supply is a crucial stake for the European countries. The ProGasNet simulator has been developed by the European Commission to study the vulnerability of the gas network to different threats...

Several methods are proposed in the literature to perform global sensitivity analysis of computer models with independent inputs. Only a few allow for treating the case of dependent inputs...