Policy Models
Ventana® Policy Models combine elements of all other model types to test likely outcomes of state, regional, national or international policy, considering relevant macroeconomic feedback, industry dynamics, environmental response, and consumer behavior.
Examples:
- Energy: California GHG Reduction Policy Collaboratives - Ventana facilitates the California GHG reduction (AB32) Policy Collaboratives, sponsored by industry and supported by the Air Resources Board, the California Energy Commission, and other agencies, with active environmental NGO participation. This process has tackled most of the major issues faced by US national energy policy, with some breakthrough insights. More...
- Environment: C-ROADS - Climate Simulation for Decision Makers - C-ROADS is decision-maker-oriented simulation that helps users understand the long term climate impacts of various futures for fossil fuel emissions, other emissions, sequestration, and various uncertainties.In negotiations and strategy conversations, C-ROADS has helped both technical and non-technical people quickly understand the long term implicationsof climate agreements forCO2 concentration, temperature, sea level rise, emissions and GDP. More...
- Integrated Policy: Finding the Way Out of the Energy, Environment and Economy Crisis - Our nation’s dependence on foreign energy sources, our impact on the environment, and our economic recession are interrelated problems. Since no one knows how to solve these problems, we experiment with trial and error. But with each experiment costing trillions of dollars, and the outcomes not known for years, the system is not well suited to trial and error. Ventana proposes to lead a comprehensive approach, aiming to redesign a robust financial system. A comprehensive system design must incorporate all the crucial drivers and dynamics holistically, in order to simultaneously stabilize world economies, energy supply and the environment. More...