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Chapter 11.2

1.2.4Geophysical Warming Commitment

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Cross-Chapter Box 1: Scenarios and Pathways

… trends and quantitative projections (IPCC, 2000). Climate change scenarios provide a framework for developing and integrating projections of emissions, climate change , and climate impacts, including an assessment of their inherent uncertainties. The long-term and multi-faceted nature of

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Chapter 2

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… levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change , sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, …

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Chapter 2FAQs Chapter 2

FAQ 2.1What Kind of Pathways Limit Warming to 1.5°C and are we on Track?

… to be a 1.5°C pathway. The two types of pathway have different implications for greenhouse gas emissions, as well as for climate change impacts and for achieving sustainable development. For example, the larger and longer an ‘overshoot’, the greater the reliance on practices …

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Chapter 22.6

2.6.2Integrated Assessment Approaches

… in the context of the SSP framework. The SSP framework aims at providing an integrative framework for the assessment of climate change adaptation and mitigation. IAMs are typically developed to inform the mitigation component of this question, while the assessment of impacts …

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Chapter 22.6

2.6.1Geophysical Understanding

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Chapter 22.5

2.5.3Sustainable Development Features of 1.5°C Pathways

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Chapter 22.52.5.2

2.5.2.2Investments

… towards a 1.5°C world would require a major shift in investment patterns (McCollum et al., 2018). Literature on global climate change mitigation investments is relatively sparse, with most detailed literature having focused on 2°C pathways (McCollum et al., 2013; Bowen et …

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Cross-Chapter Box 5: Economics of 1.5°C Pathways and the Social Cost of Carbon

… number=528]. CBA has the goal to identify the optimal emissions trajectory minimising the discounted flows of abatement expenditures and monetized climate change damages (Boardman et al., 2006; Stern, 2007). A third concept, the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) measures the total …

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Chapter 22.5

2.5.1Policy Frameworks and Enabling Conditions

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