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Global Climate Projections - A new set of scenarios employed in AR6

Global Climate Projections

A new set of scenarios employed in AR6



Annual human-caused emissions over the 2015–2100 period for the five scenarios

Annual human-caused emissions over the 2015–2100 period for the five scenarios (Image credit)


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Figure SPM.4 Panel a) from IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson- Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.