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Fossil-fueled development (SSP5): An energy and resource intensive scenario for the 21st century
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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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- Authors
- 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
- ORCID
- Kriegler, Elmar
- Bauer, Nico
- Popp, Alexander
- Humpenöder, Florian
- Leimbach, Marian
- Strefler, Jessica
- Baumstark, Lavinia
- Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon
- Hilaire, Jérôme
- Klein, David
- Mouratiadou, Ioanna
- Weindl, Isabelle
- Bertram, Christoph
- Luderer, Gunnar
- Pehl, Michaja
- Pietzcker, Robert
- Piontek, Franziska
- Biewald, Anne
- Giannousakis, Anastasis
- Kreidenweis, Ulrich
- Müller, Christoph
- Schultes, Anselm
- Calvin, Katherine
- Emmerling, Johannes
- Fujimori, Shinichiro
- Edenhofer, Ottmar
- 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
- FWCI
- 73.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- 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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