Scope

REMIND-MFA features models for three basic material categories: steel, plastics, and cement. It projects future scenarios of social metabolisms of basic materials in 12 regions covering the whole world until the year 2100, in single-year time steps. There is also a model variant, which further refines the two European regions, resulting in a total of 21 world regions.

The region definitions are given in the following table:

Code Name Full list of countries
CAZ Canada, NZ, Australia Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Heard & McDonald Islands, St. Pierre & Miquelon
CHA China China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan
EUR EU 28 Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Isle of Man, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden
IND India India
JPN Japan Japan
LAM Latin America and the Caribbean Aruba, Anguilla, Argentina, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Barbados, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Guatemala, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Mexico, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador, Suriname, Turks & Caicos Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Venezuela, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
MEA Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Algeria, Egypt, Western Sahara, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
NEU Non-EU28 Europe Albania, Andorra, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Switzerland, Guernsey, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Nauru, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, San Marino, St. Pierre & Miquelon, Serbia, Turkey, Vatican City
OAS Other Asia Afghanistan, American Samoa, Bangladesh, Brunei, Bhutan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Christmas Island, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), Guam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Kiribati, South Korea, Laos, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Myanmar (Burma), Mongolia, Northern Mariana Islands, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Niue, Nepal, Pakistan, Pitcairn Islands, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, North Korea, French Polynesia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tokelau, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Samoa
REF Countries from the Reforming Economies of the Former Soviet Union Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
SSA Sub-Saharan Africa Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Côted'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
USA USA USA

The variant splits the European regions further:

EU21 region H12 region Tentative meaning of name Full list of countries
DEU EUR Deutschland Germany
ECE EUR EU Central East Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia
ECS EUR EU Central South Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia
ENC EUR EU North Aland Islands, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden
ESC EUR EU Southern Center Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta
ESW EUR EU Southern West Portugal, Spain
EWN EUR EU Western North Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
FRA EUR France France
UKI EUR United Kingdom and Ireland Gibraltar, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom
NEN NEU Non-EU North Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Switzerland
NES NEU Non-EU South Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Holy See (Vatican City State), Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Turkey