Keywan Riahi

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

This paper summarizes the development process and main characteristics of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a set of four new pathways developed for the climate ...

Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980–2010 period

Regional, national, and spatially explicit scenarios of demographic and economic change based on SRES

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300

We present the greenhouse gas concentrations for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and their extensions beyond 2100, the Extended Concentration Pathways (ECPs). T...

RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions

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 o...

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

In preparation for the fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international community is developing new advanced Earth System...

Scenarios of long-term socio-economic and environmental development under climate stabilization

Global and regional evolution of short-lived radiatively-active gases and aerosols in the Representative Concentration Pathways

Temperature increase of 21st century mitigation scenarios

Estimates of 21st Century global-mean surface temperature increase have generally been based on scenarios that do not include climate policies. Newly developed multigas mitigati...

Land-based mitigation in climate stabilization

The relationship between short-term emissions and long-term concentration targets