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Fossil-fueled development (SSP5): An energy and resource intensive scenario for the 21st century

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Kriegler, Elmar, Bauer, Nico, Popp, Alexander, Humpenöder, Florian, Leimbach, Marian, Strefler, Jessica, Baumstark, Lavinia, Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon +24 more·2017·Global Environmental Change

Abstract

This paper presents a set of energy and resource intensive scenarios based on the concept of Shared Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs). The scenario family is characterized by rapid and fossil-fueled development with high socio-economic challenges to mitigation and low socio-economic challenges to adaptation (SSP5). A special focus is placed on the SSP5 marker scenario developed by the REMIND-MAgPIE integrated assessment modeling framework. The SSP5 baseline scenarios exhibit very high levels of fossil fuel use, up to a doubling of global food demand, and up to a tripling of energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions over the course of the century, marking the upper end of the scenario literature in several dimensions. These scenarios are currently the only SSP scenarios that result in a radiative forcing pathway as high as the highest Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP8.5). This paper further investigates the direct impact of mitigation policies on the SSP5 energy, land and emissions dynamics confirming high socio-economic challenges to mitigation in SSP5. Nonetheless, mitigation policies reaching climate forcing levels as low as in the lowest Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP2.6) are accessible in SSP5. The SSP5 scenarios presented in this paper aim to provide useful reference points for future climate change, climate impact, adaption and mitigation analysis, and broader questions of sustainable development.

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  • SSP5-8.5 projects a fossil-fuel-intensive future with high greenhouse gas emissions and minimal policy interventions, reflecting radiative forcing levels similar to RCP8.5.

    “Its successor, SSP5-8.5 projects a fossil-fuel-intensive future with high greenhouse gas emissions and minimal policy interventions, reflecting similar radiative forcing levels.”
  • Future worlds locked into fossil fuels and reducing annual GHG emissions only around 2040 may require even 20 Gt CO2 per year removal in 2100 and more.

    “Future worlds that are locked into fossil fuels, and reduce annual GHG emissions only around 2040, may require even 20 Gt CO 2 per year removal in 2100 and more.14,15”
  • In some climate mitigation scenarios, NETs operate concurrently with low-cost fossil fuels (oil and gas).

    “In some climate mitigation scenarios, NETs operate concurrently with low-cost fossil fuels (oil and gas).15”

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Kriegler, E., Bauer, N., Popp, A., Humpenöder, F., Leimbach, M., Strefler, J., Baumstark, L., Bodirsky, B. L., Hilaire, J., Klein, D., Mouratiadou, I., Weindl, I., Bertram, C., Dietrich, J.-P., Luderer, G., Pehl, M., Pietzcker, R., Piontek, F., Lotze-Campen, H., Biewald, A., Bonsch, M., Giannousakis, A., Kreidenweis, U., Müller, C., Rolinski, S., Schultes, A., Schwanitz, J., Stevanovic, M., Calvin, K., Emmerling, J., Fujimori, S., & Edenhofer, O.
Affiliations
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (DE)
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
  • Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (DE)
  • Joint Global Change Research Institute (US)
  • Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (IT)
  • National Institute for Environmental Studies (JP)
Corresponding author
Kriegler, Elmar
Venue
Global Environmental Change
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-01
Volume
42
Pages
297-315
ISSN
0959-3780 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2508171124
Cited by
735
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 67 · 2025: 91 · 2024: 97 · 2023: 116 · 2022: 88 · 2021: 107 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 42 · 2018: 43 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 10 · 2014: 1
FWCI
73.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Global Environmental Change (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • European Commission (LUC4C, 603542)
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
Keywords
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, SSP5, energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions, food demand, land use, mitigation policy, climate change adaptation, RCP8.5, RCP2.6, radiative forcing, sustainable development, climate change scenarios

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