Nebojša Nakićenović

A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

Emissions inevitably approach zero with a “carbon law”

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 ...

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

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...

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

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...