The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis · Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency · +17 more institutions
Abstract
This paper presents the overview of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and their energy, land use, and emissions implications. The SSPs are part of a new scenario framework, established by the climate change research community in order to facilitate the integrated analysis of future climate impacts, vulnerabilities, adaptation, and mitigation. The pathways were developed over the last years as a joint community effort and describe plausible major global developments that together would lead in the future to different challenges for mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The SSPs are based on five narratives describing alternative socio-economic developments, including sustainable development,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 700.35
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 65
Authors
46- KRKeywan RiahiCorresponding
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- DPDetlef P. van Vuuren
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- EKElmar Kriegler
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- JEJae Edmonds
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park
- BCBrian C. O’Neill
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Topics & keywords
- Greenhouse gas
- Baseline (sea)
- Climate change
- Land use
- Natural resource economics
- Climate change mitigation
- Environmental resource management
- Land use, land-use change and forestry