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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scenarios: Background, Issues, and Policy Relevance

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scenarios: Background, Issues, and Policy Relevance

Full Title: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scenarios: Background, Issues, and Policy Relevance
Author(s): Michael I. Westphal
Publisher(s): Congressional Research Service
Publication Date: June 3, 2021
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Description (excerpt):

This report provides background on emissions scenarios, some of the main economic-energy models that have been used to construct emissions scenarios as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and national policy processes (including those of the United States), and some of the key findings of the scenarios consistent with keeping mean global warming to 1.5°C or 2°C. The report then concludes with observations for Congress.

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