Researchers Unveil Several Ways To Limit Global Warming To 1.5°C By 2100

A group of researchers led by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has used new modelling scenarios to showcase several ways with which to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2100.

Fresh ideas about limiting global warming to 1.5°C. 

According to their research, “Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C“, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, there are in fact several ways to limit global warming to the Paris Agreement’s goal of 1.5°C by 2100, but their modelling shows that the right circumstances are necessary. The research represents one of the first times that scientists investigating limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2100 have also looked at how socioeconomic conditions such as inequalities, energy demand, and international cooperation would contribute to the feasibility of achieving those goals.

The new research is based on six integrated assessment models and a simple climate model, run under different socio-economic, technological, and resource assumptions that stem from five Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs). The SSPs were previously developed by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) along with key partners, and provide a look at different ways in which the world and society might progress. They include a scenario in which the world pursues sustainability, another scenario in which economic and population growth continues along business-as-usual pathways, and another in which the world focuses instead on high economic growth over sustainability.

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