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S Teske, M Meinshausen, K Dooley
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals Global and Regional 100 Renewable Energy Scenarios with Non Energy Ghg Pathways for 1 5c and 2c | SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG | Published : 2019
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Abstract
This chapter sets the context for the climate and energy scenario development. The first part summarizes the scientific status quo of climate change research and explains how the global climate has changed over recent decades and the likely outcomes if we continue with business as usual and fail to drastically reduce GHG emissions. The second part reviews the development of the global energy markets during the past decade. Trends in the power-, transport- and heating sector in regard to technologies and investments are provided for the year of writing (2018). The developments put the energy scenarios presented in the following chapters into a global context.