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- description: 'The RCP 2.6 is developed by the IMAGE modeling team of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. The emission pathway is representative for scenarios in the literature leading to very low greenhouse gas concentration levels. It is a so-called "peak" scenario: its radiative forcing level first reaches a value around 3.1 W/m2 mid-century, returning to 2.6 W/m2 by 2100. In order to reach such radiative forcing levels, greenhouse gas emissions (and indirectly emissions of air pollutants) are reduced substantially over time. The final RCP is based on the publication by Van Vuuren et al. (2007).'
  description_attribution: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web-apps/tnt/RcpDb/dsd?Action=htmlpage&page=welcome
  href: https://data.globalchange.gov/scenario/rcp_2_6.yaml
  identifier: rcp_2_6
  name: RCP 2.6
  uri: /scenario/rcp_2_6
- description: The RCP 4.5 is developed by the MiniCAM modeling team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI). It is a stabilization scenario where total radiative forcing is stabilized before 2100 by employment of a range of technologies and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The scenario drivers and technology options are detailed in Clarke et al. (2007). Additional detail on the simulation of land use and terrestrial carbon emissions is given by Wise et al (2009).
  description_attribution: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web-apps/tnt/RcpDb/dsd?Action=htmlpage&page=welcome
  href: https://data.globalchange.gov/scenario/rcp_4_5.yaml
  identifier: rcp_4_5
  name: RCP 4.5
  uri: /scenario/rcp_4_5
- description: 'The RCP 6.0 is developed by the AIM modeling team at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. It is a stabilization scenario where total radiative forcing is stabilized after 2100 without overshoot by employment of a range of technologies and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The details of the scenario are described in Fujino et al. (2006) and Hijioka et al. (2008).'
  description_attribution: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web-apps/tnt/RcpDb/dsd?Action=htmlpage&page=welcome
  href: https://data.globalchange.gov/scenario/rcp_6_0.yaml
  identifier: rcp_6_0
  name: RCP 6.0
  uri: /scenario/rcp_6_0
- description: 'The RCP 8.5 is developed by the MESSAGE modeling team and the IIASA Integrated Assessment Framework at the International Institute for Applies Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. The RCP 8.5 is characterized by increasing greenhouse gas emissions over time representative for scenarios in the literature leading to high greenhouse gas concentration levels. The underlying scenario drivers and resulting development path are based on the A2r scenario detailed in Riahi et al. (2007).'
  description_attribution: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web-apps/tnt/RcpDb/dsd?Action=htmlpage&page=welcome
  href: https://data.globalchange.gov/scenario/rcp_8_5.yaml
  identifier: rcp_8_5
  name: RCP 8.5
  uri: /scenario/rcp_8_5
- description: 'The A2 storyline and scenario family describes a very heterogeneous world. The underlying theme is self-reliance and preservation of local identities. Fertility patterns across regions converge very slowly, which results in continuously increasing population. Economic development is primarily regionally oriented and per capita economic growth and technological change more fragmented and slower than other storylines.'
  description_attribution: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/029.htm#storya2
  href: https://data.globalchange.gov/scenario/sres_a2.yaml
  identifier: sres_a2
  name: Special Report on Emissions Scenario A2 Scenario Family
  uri: /scenario/sres_a2
- description: 'The B1 storyline and scenario family describes a convergent world with the same global population, that peaks in mid-century and declines thereafter, as in the A1 storyline, but with rapid change in economic structures toward a service and information economy, with reductions in material intensity and the introduction of clean and resource-efficient technologies. The emphasis is on global solutions to economic, social and environmental sustainability, including improved equity, but without additional climate initiatives.'
  description_attribution: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/029.htm#storyb1
  href: https://data.globalchange.gov/scenario/sres_b1.yaml
  identifier: sres_b1
  name: Special Report on Emissions Scenario B1 Scenario Family
  uri: /scenario/sres_b1
- description: 'The B2 storyline and scenario family describes a world in which the emphasis is on local solutions to economic, social and environmental sustainability. It is a world with continuously increasing global population, at a rate lower than A2, intermediate levels of economic development, and less rapid and more diverse technological change than in the A1 and B1 storylines. While the scenario is also oriented towards environmental protection and social equity, it focuses on local and regional levels.'
  description_attribution: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/029.htm#storyb2
  href: https://data.globalchange.gov/scenario/sres_b2.yaml
  identifier: sres_b2
  name: Special Report on Emissions Scenario B2 Scenario Family
  uri: /scenario/sres_b2