The model framework is developed by DREAM, an independent Danish institution specialising in economic modelling and analysis. Country teams put the model to work using national data and local expertise.
GreenREFORM-EU is built and maintained by DREAM, an independent Danish institute of about thirty people who develop and run economic models.
DREAM builds MAKRO, the macroeconomic model used by the Danish Ministry of Finance, and GreenREFORM, the climate and environmental model used in Danish climate policy, including the work of the expert group on green tax reform.
GreenREFORM-EU descends from that work. It was developed for finance ministries, planning bureaus and emissions agencies in EU Member States under the European Commission's Technical Support Instrument, and generalised under version 2.0.
Version 1.0 was funded by the European Commission through the Technical Support Instrument. Version 2.0 was funded by the KR Foundation. The Danish benchmark data set was produced by Statistics Denmark.
Write to DREAM at info@dreamgruppen.dk. Tell us which institution you are writing from and whether you are calibrating the model, reading the documentation, or considering a project.
GreenREFORM-EU has teams in four countries and is involved in global sister projects.
Every participating country has a country team located e.g. at the Ministry of Finance in the respective country. Each institution calibrates the model to its own accounts and energy balances.
Austria: Federal Ministry of Finance
Scripted data pipeline from public sources; calibration and internal workshops.
Belgium: Federal Planning Bureau
Baseline calibration complete. Technology catalogues for the largest emitting sectors.
Finland: Ministry of Finance
National data set and first calibration. Pilots on environmental taxation and transport fuels are planned, not yet listed as analyses
Italy: Department of Finance
Harmonising national accounts with energy balances.
Denmark: Core model
Danish benchmark data from Statistics Denmark. The calibration every country team starts from.
