Tutorial: Optimal carbon-budget planning with REMix

Kurzfassung

Staying below a global temperature rise of 1.5°C is the formulated benchmark in the Paris Agreement, which implies a remaining carbon budget to not miss that target. However, in contemporary energy system optimization models, this is often only translated to no-emission targets in some future year(s). This does not account for the maximum total emissions along a decarbonization pathway to stay within the budget. In the proposed tutorial, we would like to present a model that keeps a carbon budget for a chosen modeling region. This model is built in the REMix framework and optimized using its path optimization feature with perfect foresight.