GCAM v5.3 Documentation: Recent updates

Documentation for GCAM
The Global Change Analysis Model

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Recent updates

Several changes have been made to GCAM since the last release version (v5.2). The key updates are:

  1. GCAM’s final historical year has been updated to 2015.
  2. GCAM has been renamed to the “Global Change Analysis Model”.
  3. Livestock trade has been updated to use an Armington-style approach, instead of fixing trade at historic values.
  4. A number of bug fixes (e.g., a correction to the MAC technical change) and minor enhancements (e.g., adding the stop-year capability)