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Data description paper |
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Country-resolved combined emission and socio-economic pathways based on the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) and Shared Socio-Economic Pathway (SSP) scenarios
Johannes Gütschow
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany
M. Louise Jeffery
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany
NewClimate Institute, Berlin, Germany
Annika Günther
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany
Malte Meinshausen
Climate & Energy College, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Climate policy analysis needs scenarios of future greenhouse gas emission to assess countries' emission targets and current trends. The models generating these scenarios work on a regional resolution. Scenarios are often made available only on a very coarse regional resolution. In this paper we use per country projections of gross domestic product (GDP) from the Shared Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs) to derive country-level data from published regional emission scenarios.
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