全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): RCP 8.5 - A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions.

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1007/s10584-011-0149-y
	RCP 8.5 - A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions.
	Riahi K; Rao S; Krey V; Cho C; Chirkov V; Fischer G; Kindermann G; Nakicenovic N
发表日期	2011
出处	Climatic Change 109 (1): 33-57
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	This paper summarizes the main characteristics of the RCP8.5 scenario. The RCP8.5 combines assumption about high population and relatively slow income growth with modest rates of technological change and energy intensity improvements, leading in the long term to high energy demand and GHG emissions in absence of climate change policies. Compared to the total set of Representative Concentration Pathway (RCPs), RCP8.5 thus corresponds to the pathway with the highest greenhouse gas emissions. Using the IIASA Integrated Assessment Framework and the MESSAGE model for the development of the RCP8.5, we focus in this paper on two important extensions compared to earlier scenarios: (1) the development of spatially explicit air pollution projections, and (2) enhancements in the land-use and land-cover change projections. In addition, we explore scenario variants that use RCP8.5 as a baseline, and assume different degrees of greenhouse gas mitigation policies to reduce radiative forcing. Based on our modeling framework, we find it technically possible to limit forcing from RCP8.5 to lower levels comparable to the other RCPs (2.6 to 6 W/m2). Our scenario analysis further indicates that climate policy-induced changes of global energy supply and demand may lead to significant co-benefits for other policy priorities, such as local air pollution.
主题	Air Quality & ; Greenhouse Gases (AIR) ; Energy (ENE) ; Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) ; Transitions to New Technologies (TNT) ; Mitigation of Air Pollution (MAG)
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/9525/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/129247
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Riahi K,Rao S,Krey V,et al. RCP 8.5 - A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions.. 2011.