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The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500
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Anthropogenic increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are the main driver of current and future climate change. The integrated assessment community has quantified anthropogenic emissions for the shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) scenarios, each of which represents a different future socio-economic projection and political environment. Here, we provide the greenhouse gas concentrations for these SSP scenarios – using the reduced-complexity climate–carbon-cycle model MAGICC7.0. We extend historical, observationally based concentration data with SSP concentration projections from 2015 to 2500 for 43 greenhouse gases with monthly and latitudinal resolution. CO 2 concentrations by 2100 range from 393 to 1135 ppm for the lowest (SSP1-1.9) and highest (SSP5-8.5) emission scenarios, respectively. We also provide the concentration extensions beyond 2100 based on assumptions regarding the trajectories of fossil fuels and land use change emissions, net negative emissions, and the fraction of non-CO 2 emissions. By 2150, CO 2 concentrations in the lowest emission scenario are approximately 350 ppm and approximately plateau at that level until 2500, whereas the highest fossil-fuel-driven scenario projects CO 2 concentrations of 1737 ppm and reaches concentrations beyond 2000 ppm by 2250. We estimate that the share of CO 2 in the total radiative forcing contribution of all considered 43 long-lived greenhouse gases increases from 66 % for the present day to roughly 68 % to 85 % by the time of maximum forcing in the 21st century. For this estimation, we updated simple radiative forcing parameterizations that reflect the Oslo Line-By-Line model results. In comparison to the representative concentration pathways (RCPs), the five main SSPs (SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5) are more evenly spaced and extend to lower 2100 radiative forcing and temperatures. Performing two pairs of six-member historical ensembles with CESM1.2.2, we estimate the effect on surface air temperatures of applying latitudinally and seasonally resolved GHG concentrations. We find that the ensemble differences in the March–April–May (MAM) season provide a regional warming in higher northern latitudes of up to 0.4 K over the historical period, latitudinally averaged of about 0.1 K, which we estimate to be comparable to the upper bound (∼5 % level) of natural variability. In comparison to the comparatively straight line of the last 2000 years, the greenhouse gas concentrations since the onset of the industrial period and this studies' projections over the next 100 to 500 years unequivocally depict a “hockey-stick” upwards shape. The SSP concentration time series derived in this study provide a harmonized set of input assumptions for long-term climate science analysis; they also provide an indication of the wide set of futures that societal developments and policy implementations can lead to – ranging from multiple degrees of future warming on the one side to approximately 1.5 ∘ C warming on the other.
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Schädel, C., Gasser, T., Rogers, B., Treharne, R., Turetsky, M., Smith, T., Macdonald, E., & Natali, S. (2026) · Communications Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03189-5 · Cited by 7
Recent history and future demise of Jostedalsbreen, the largest ice cap in mainland Europe
Åkesson, H., Sjursen, K. H., Schuler, T. V., Dunse, T., Andreassen, L., Gillespie, M. K., Robson, B., Schellenberger, T., & Yde, J. C. (2025) · The Cryosphere · doi:10.5194/tc-19-5871-2025 · Cited by 7
“D simulations of historical and future changes of the complex ice cap.”
Mulverhill, C., Coops, N., Wulder, M., Hermosilla, T., White, J., & Bater, C. (2025) · Canadian journal of remote sensing · doi:10.1080/07038992.2025.2560347 · Cited by 7
Kiribou, I. A. R., Dimobe, K., & Dejene, S. W. (2025) · Earth · doi:10.3390/earth6030111 · Cited by 7
“5) from the CMIP6 dataset [44].”
Zhang, Y., Beardall, J., & Gao, K. (2025) · Marine Environmental Research · doi:10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107352 · Cited by 7
Climate variability amplifies the need for vector-borne disease outbreak preparedness
Hart, W., Hurrell, J., Kaye, A. R., Chand, M., Keeling, M., & Thompson, R. N. (2025) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · doi:10.1073/pnas.2507311122 · Cited by 7
Singh, P. N., Srivastava, P. K., Sharma, B., & Mall, R. (2025) · Smart Agricultural Technology · doi:10.1016/j.atech.2025.101256 · Cited by 7
Declining coral calcification to enhance twenty-first-century ocean carbon uptake by gigatonnes
Kwiatkowski, L., Planchat, A., Pyolle, M., Torres, O., Bouttes, N., Comte, A., & Bopp, L. (2025) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · doi:10.1073/pnas.2501562122 · Cited by 7
“Although the RCPs have been updated to Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) in the latest coupled model intercompar-ison project (63), each of the RCPs used here has an SSP analogue that exhibits similar—although generally greater—surface ocean warming and acidification for a comparable radiative…”
Ma, J., Arneth, A., Smith, B., Anthoni, P. M., Xu-Ri, Eliasson, P., Wårlind, D., Wittenbrink, M., & Olin, S. (2025) · Geoscientific model development · doi:10.5194/gmd-18-3131-2025 · Cited by 9
Chen, X., Dong, H., Qi, Z., Dongwei, G. U. I., Ma, L., Thorp, K. R., Malone, R. W., Wu, H., Liu, B., & Feng, S. (2025) · Agricultural Water Management · doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109417 · Cited by 7
Escalating Heatwave Exposure of the Elderly across China.
Zhou, Y., Gu, S., Yang, H., Ge, Z.-X., Dong, G., Zhao, Y., & Yang, Q.-Y. (2025) · Environmental Research · doi:10.1016/j.envres.2025.121986 · Cited by 7
Visone, F., Abate, N., Sileo, M., & Masini, N. (2025) · Remote Sensing · doi:10.3390/rs17081443 · Cited by 7
Zhang, Z.-H., Yan, D., Li, M.-M., Lu, Y.-T., Zhou, Y.-T., Wang, T.-J., Zhuang, B.-L., Li, S., & Huang, X. (2025) · Atmospheric Environment · doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121221 · Cited by 7
Future water requirements of the wheat crop in Northern Algeria under climate change scenarios
Mokhtari, S., Benmehaia, A. M., Nourani, A., & Hadjeb, A. (2025) · Regional Environmental Change · doi:10.1007/s10113-025-02378-w · Cited by 7
Sardana, D., Kulkarni, S., & Agarwal, A. (2025) · Climate Dynamics · doi:10.1007/s00382-025-07646-3 · Cited by 7
Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers
Sadai, S., Ranganathan, M., Nauels, A., Nicholls, Z., Merner, D., Dahl, K., Licker, R., & Ekwurzel, B. (2025) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adb59f · Cited by 7
“5 (Meinshausen et al 2020).”
InfluentialSelf-citationMa, M., Cao, J., Tong, D., Zheng, B., & Zhao, Y. (2025) · Atmospheric chemistry and physics · doi:10.5194/acp-25-2147-2025 · Cited by 7
Jameel, A., Imran, M., Adam, N., Mirzaliev, S., Khidirov, M., & Gao, Y. (2025) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.117668 · Cited by 7
Clark, B., Robock, A., Xia, L.-L., Rabin, S. S., Guarin, J., Hoogenboom, G., & Jägermeyr, J. (2025) · Earth's Future · doi:10.1029/2024ef005269 · Cited by 7
“Crop model simulations followed transient CO 2 concentrations under SSP2‐4.5 (Meinshausen et al., 2020).”
InfluentialScott, N. A., Mulder, J. A., Pili, A., Oliver, P., Hines, H. B., Farquhar, J., & Chapple, D. G. (2024) · Pacific Conservation Biology · doi:10.1071/pc24050 · Cited by 7
Manta, A. G., Doran, N. M., Hurduzeu, G., Bădîrcea, R. M., Doran, M. D., & Manta, L. F. (2024) · Climatic Change · doi:10.1007/s10584-024-03809-z · Cited by 11
“Providing valuable information to customers plays a key role in changing their perspective towards green products (Meinshausen et al. 2020).”
How can Future Climate Change Affect the Corn Production System in Nebraska, USA?
Gonçalves, I. Z., Fattori, I. M., Neale, C. M. U., dos Santos, C. A. C., Ruane, A. C., Phillips, M., & Marin, F. R. (2024) · International Journal of Plant Production · doi:10.1007/s42106-024-00310-6 · Cited by 9
“Furthermore, to represent the changes in CO 2 concentrations between 2015 and 2100 for each SSP scenario, we used the yearly future scenarios of CO 2 concentration available in Meinshausen et al. (2020) as input for the crop model simulations (Fig.”
Terhaar, J. (2024) · Biogeosciences · doi:10.5194/bg-21-3903-2024 · Cited by 14
Challenges to Viticulture in Montenegro under Climate Change
Fernandes, A., Kovač, N., Fraga, H., Fonseca, A., Radonjić, S., Simeunović, M., Ratković, K., Menz, C., Costafreda-Aumedes, S., & Santos, J. A. (2024) · ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf. · doi:10.3390/ijgi13080270 · Cited by 7
“Future climate scenarios are derived from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 scenarios (CMIP6) [85], more specifically the Shared Socio-Economic Pathways [86]: SSP1-2.”
MethodMetzl, N., Monaco, C. L., Leseurre, C., Ridame, C., Reverdin, G., Chau, T. T. T., Chevallier, F., & Gehlen, M. (2024) · Ocean science · doi:10.5194/os-20-725-2024 · Cited by 9
How Could Future Climate Conditions Reshape a Devastating Lake‐Effect Snow Storm?
Kayastha, M., Huang, C.-F., Wang, J., Qian, Y., Yang, Z., Chakraborty, T., Pringle, W. J., Hetland, R., & Xue, P.-F. (2024) · Earth's Future · doi:10.1029/2024ef004622 · Cited by 7
“The Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 5 (SSP5‐8.5) was considered in Case 2a and Case 2b as it represents the higher end of the spectrum of plausible future pathways and closely corresponds to the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 (Meinshausen et al., 2020; Riahi et al., 2011).”
BackgroundInfluentialZhao, M., Cao, L., Visioni, D., & MacMartin, D. G. (2024) · Earth s Future · doi:10.1029/2024ef004474 · Cited by 11
“The background CO 2 concentration scenario used here is the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) 2–4.5 (Meinshausen et al., 2020), which represents a moderate‐mitigation scenario.”
MethodInfluentialGlobal, Arctic, and Antarctic sea ice volume predictions using score-driven threshold climate models
Blazsek, S., Escribano, A., & Kristóf, E. (2024) · Energy Economics · doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107591 · Cited by 7
Employing gridded-based dataset for heatwave assessment and future projection in Peninsular Malaysia
Sa’adi, Z., Hamed, M. M., Muhammad, M. K. I., Chow, M.-F., Mohamad, N., Basri, M. H. A., Ahmad, M. F., Sa'adi, N., Alias, N., Yusop, Z., et al. (2024) · Theoretical and Applied Climatology · doi:10.1007/s00704-024-04946-2 · Cited by 7
“5 were used to assess potential future changes in Tmax over PM (Meinshausen et al. 2020).”
Zhu, W., Wang, X.-H., Peirson, W. L., & Salcedo‐Castro, J. (2024) · International Journal of Climatology · doi:10.1002/joc.8446 · Cited by 7
“For the CMIP6, the projections of future scenario are shown in Shared Socioeconomic Path-ways (SSP) which cover the period of 2015 to 2100 (Eyring et al., 2016; Meinshausen et al., 2020; O'Neill et al., 2016).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialPark, I.-H., & Yeh, S. (2024) · Communications Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01269-y · Cited by 7
“Scenario uncertainty increases over time due to the different forcings applied toward the end of the 21st century 35 , while internal variability uncertainty remains relatively constant.”
Zhu, J., Yang, Y., Wang, H.-L., Gao, J.-Y., Liu, C., Wang, P.-Y., & Liao, H. (2024) · Science of the Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170024 · Cited by 7
What goes in must come out: the oceanic outgassing of anthropogenic carbon
Couespel, D., & Tjiputra, J. (2023) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad16e0 · Cited by 7
Revisiting the greenhouse effect – a hydrological perspective
Koutsoyiannis, D., & Vournas, C. (2023) · Hydrological Sciences Journal · doi:10.1080/02626667.2023.2287047 · Cited by 7
Constraining CMIP6 estimates of Arctic Ocean temperature and salinity in 2025-2055
Langehaug, H., Sagen, H., Stallemo, A., Uotila, P., Rautiainen, L., Olsen, S., Devilliers, M., Yang, S., & Storheim, E. (2023) · Frontiers in Marine Science · doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1211562 · Cited by 7
Storozhenko, S., Molodtsov, V. V., & Sergeev, M. G. (2023) · Insects · doi:10.3390/insects14100789 · Cited by 7
“…downscaled from the global climate models [33], namely CNRM-ESM2-1 (Centre National de Recherches M é t é orologiques and Centre Eu-rop é en de Recherche et de Formation Avanc é e en Calcul Scientifique, France) [34,35] and for the three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (1–2.6, 2–4.5, 3–7.0) [36].”
MethodInfluentialJiang, Q., Cioffi, F., Conticello, F., Giannini, M., Telesca, V., & Wang, J. (2023) · Hydrological Processes · doi:10.1002/hyp.14992 · Cited by 7
Context matters when using climate model projections for aquaculture
Falconer, L., Ytteborg, E., Goris, N., Lauvset, S. K., Sandø, A. B., & Hjøllo, S. S. (2023) · Frontiers in Marine Science · doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1198451 · Cited by 12
“Scenarios are used as it is impossible to account for the infinite number of potential future trajectories, and a set of common scenarios also facilitates comparison between different models and communication across different disciplines (Kriegler et al., 2012; O’Neill et al., 2014; Meinshausen et al., 2020).”
Predicting runoff and sediment responses to climate-resilient land use and management scenarios
Berihun, M., Tsunekawa, A., Haregeweyn, N., Tsubo, M., Fenta, A., Ebabu, K., Bayabil, H., & Dile, Y. (2023) · Environmental science and pollution research international · doi:10.1007/s11356-023-27452-w · Cited by 7
Teckentrup, L., Kauwe, M. G. D., Abramowitz, G., Pitman, A. J., Ukkola, A., Hobeichi, S., François, B., & Smith, B. (2023) · Earth System Dynamics · doi:10.5194/esd-14-549-2023 · Cited by 11
Fera, S. D., Fabiano, F., Raspollini, P., Ridolfi, M., Cortesi, U., Barbara, F., & von Hardenberg, J. (2023) · Geoscientific Model Development · doi:10.5194/gmd-16-1379-2023 · Cited by 7
Future trends in wind resources and their consistency in the Indian sub-continent
Zakari, Y., Michel, A., & Lehning, M. (2022) · Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments · doi:10.1016/j.seta.2022.102460 · Cited by 7
Piñango, A., Kerr, R., Orselli, I. B. M., Carvalho, A. D. C. D. O., Azar, E., Karstensen, J., & Garcia, C. A. E. (2022) · Global Biogeochemical Cycles · doi:10.1029/2021gb007196 · Cited by 11
“ate these changes in the future, we recalculate the trends based on the variation of atmospheric CO2 between occupations (rather than time) and assuming that these trends remain constant and considering the atmospheric CO2 projections of Meinshausen et al. (2020) we found that under the SSP2-4.”
MethodCollette, J. C., Sommerville, K., Lyons, M. B., Offord, C., Errington, G., Newby, Z., von Richter, L., & Emery, N. J. (2022) · Annals of Botany · doi:10.1093/aob/mcac026 · Cited by 7
Clark, S., Arcomano, T., Duncan, J. P. C., Henn, B., Kwa, A., McGibbon, J., Perkins, W., Wu, E., Harris, L. M., Watt-Meyer, O., et al. (2026) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.07928 · Cited by 6
“There are numerous other greenhouse gases, like CH 4 or N 2 O, and aerosols, which are shorter lived and highly spatially heterogeneous, all of which can vary independently of CO 2 (Riahi et al., 2017; Meinshausen et al., 2020).”
Groundwater Temperature Processes and Patterns: Implications for Stream Thermal Regimes
Kurylyk, B., Kelleher, C., Irvine, D. J., Tackley, H., Leach, J. A., Neilson, B., & Bense, V. (2026) · WIREs Water · doi:10.1002/wat2.70062 · Cited by 6
Enhanced forest carbon gains from stronger protection in China’s protected areas
Fu, Y., Li, W., Niu, Z., Chen, F., Zhang, B., Qiao, H., Wang, L., & Svenning, J.-C. (2026) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-026-69505-x · Cited by 6
“…interpolated to a 0.5° spatial resolution. remained entirely undisturbed since 1901, the comparison Annual atmospheric CO 2 concentration data for 1901-2020 were sourced from ice-core estimations 97 and Mauna Loa Observatory 98 , while for 2021-2100, data were obtained from the SSP datasets 99 .”
InfluentialCouëdel, A., Falconnier, G. N., Adam, M., Cardinael, R., Six, J., Laub, M., Ruane, A. C., Boote, K. J., Justes, É., Smith, W., et al. (2026) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/gcb.70720 · Cited by 7
“0) by 2050 (Meinshausen et al. 2020; Thrasher et al. 2022).”
Metadata
- Authors
- Meinshausen, M., Nicholls, Z. R. J., Lewis, J., Gidden, M. J., Vogel, E., Freund, M., Beyerle, U., Gessner, C., Nauels, A., Bauer, N., Canadell, J. G., Daniel, J. S., John, A., Krummel, P. B., Luderer, G., Meinshausen, N., Montzka, S. A., Rayner, P. J., Reimann, S., Smith, S. J., van den Berg, M., Velders, G. J. M., Vollmer, M. K., & Wang, R. H. J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (DE)
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (AU)
- NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (US)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
- Empa (CH)
- Joint Global Change Research Institute (US)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Meinshausen, Malte
- Gidden, Matthew J.
- Vogel, Elisabeth
- Beyerle, Urs
- Gessner, Claudia
- Nauels, Alexander
- Canadell, Josep G.
- Krummel, Paul B.
- Luderer, Gunnar
- Montzka, Stephen A.
- Rayner, Peter J.
- Reimann, Stefan
- Smith, Steven J.
- Velders, Guus J. M.
- Vollmer, Martin K.
- Wang, Ray H. J.
- ORCID
- Meinshausen, Malte
- Nicholls, Zebedee R. J.
- Lewis, Jared
- Gidden, Matthew J.
- Vogel, Elisabeth
- Freund, Mandy
- Beyerle, Urs
- Gessner, Claudia
- Nauels, Alexander
- Bauer, Nico
- Canadell, Josep G.
- Daniel, John S.
- John, Andrew
- Krummel, Paul B.
- Luderer, Gunnar
- Montzka, Stephen A.
- Rayner, Peter J.
- Reimann, Stefan
- Smith, Steven J.
- van den Berg, Marten
- Velders, Guus J. M.
- Vollmer, Martin K.
- Wang, Ray H. J.
- Venue
- Geoscientific Model Development
- Publisher
- Copernicus GmbH
- Published
- 2020-08-13
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 3571-3605
- ISSN
- 1991-959X (ISSN-L)
- 1991-9603
- OpenAlex
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- References
- 78
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- Australian Research Council (FT130100809)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Keywords
- Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, greenhouse gas concentrations, long-lived greenhouse gases, radiative forcing, fossil fuel emissions, land use change emissions, net-negative emissions, non-CO2 emissions, surface air temperature, RCP scenarios
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