A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions

The new scenario framework facilitates the coupling of multiple socioeconomic reference pathways with climate model products using the representative concentration pathways. This will allow for improved assessment of climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation. Assumptions about climate policy play a...

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Main Authors:	Kriegler, Elmar, Edmonds, Jae, Hallegatte, Stephane, Ebi, Kristie L., Kram, Tom
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Springer 2015
Subjects:	climate policy adaptation cost land-use change emission radiative force level energy security mitigation
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23214

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spelling	okr-10986-232142021-04-23T14:04:13Z A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions Kriegler, Elmar Edmonds, Jae Hallegatte, Stephane Ebi, Kristie L. Kram, Tom climate policy adaptation cost land-use change emission radiative force level energy security mitigation The new scenario framework facilitates the coupling of multiple socioeconomic reference pathways with climate model products using the representative concentration pathways. This will allow for improved assessment of climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation. Assumptions about climate policy play a major role in linking socioeconomic futures with forcing and climate outcomes. The paper presents the concept of shared climate policy assumptions as an important element of the new scenario framework. Shared climate policy assumptions capture key policy attributes such as the goals, instruments and obstacles of mitigation and adaptation measures, and introduce an important additional dimension to the scenario matrix architecture. They can be used to improve the comparability of scenarios in the scenario matrix. Shared climate policy assumptions should be designed to be policy relevant, and as a set to be broad enough to allow a comprehensive exploration of the climate change scenario space. 2015-12-04T15:56:33Z 2015-12-04T15:56:33Z 2014-02 Journal Article Climate Change 1573-1480 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23214 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Springer Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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spellingShingle	climate policy adaptation cost land-use change emission radiative force level energy security mitigation Kriegler, Elmar Edmonds, Jae Hallegatte, Stephane Ebi, Kristie L. Kram, Tom A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions
description	The new scenario framework facilitates the coupling of multiple socioeconomic reference pathways with climate model products using the representative concentration pathways. This will allow for improved assessment of climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation. Assumptions about climate policy play a major role in linking socioeconomic futures with forcing and climate outcomes. The paper presents the concept of shared climate policy assumptions as an important element of the new scenario framework. Shared climate policy assumptions capture key policy attributes such as the goals, instruments and obstacles of mitigation and adaptation measures, and introduce an important additional dimension to the scenario matrix architecture. They can be used to improve the comparability of scenarios in the scenario matrix. Shared climate policy assumptions should be designed to be policy relevant, and as a set to be broad enough to allow a comprehensive exploration of the climate change scenario space.
format	Journal Article
author	Kriegler, Elmar Edmonds, Jae Hallegatte, Stephane Ebi, Kristie L. Kram, Tom
author_facet	Kriegler, Elmar Edmonds, Jae Hallegatte, Stephane Ebi, Kristie L. Kram, Tom
author_sort	Kriegler, Elmar
title	A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions
title_short	A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions
title_full	A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions
title_fullStr	A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions
title_full_unstemmed	A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions
title_sort	new scenario framework for climate change research : the concept of shared climate policy assumptions
publisher	Springer
publishDate	2015
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23214
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A New Scenario Framework for Climate Change Research : The Concept of Shared Climate Policy Assumptions

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