Abstract:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
developed long-term emissions scenarios in 1990 and 1992.
These scenarios have been widely used in the analysis of
possible climate change, its impacts, and options to mitigate
climate change. In 1995, the IPCC 1992 scenarios were
evaluated. The evaluation recommended that significant
changes (since 1992) in the understanding of driving forces of
emissions and methodologies should be addressed. These
changes in understanding relate to, e.g., the carbon intensity of
energy supply, the income gap between developed and
developing countries, and to sulfur emissions. This led to a
decision by the IPCC Plenary in 1996 to develop a new set of
scenarios. The new set of scenarios is presented in this Report.
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