Key criteria and principles
This document supports NSW government agencies and stakeholders in the appropriate, consistent and transparent selection of climate scenarios.
Publisher: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Cost: Free
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-76186-206-9 / ID: EH20260172
File: PDF 11.43 MB / Pages 0
Name: selecting-climate-scenarios-key-criteria-and-principles-260172.pdf
Tags: PublicationClimate change
Climate scenarios describe different plausible future conditions based on varying assumptions about greenhouse gas emissions, socio-economic development and policy choices. This guidance uses shared socio-economic pathways as the primary climate scenario framework for selecting and interpreting future climate conditions.
Shared socio-economic pathways are a scenario framework developed by the international research community (Moss et al. 2010; O’Neill et al. 2013; Riahi et al. 2017) and adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to explore how different socio‑economic development pathways may influence future greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and adaptation challenges.
