Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) models how socioeconomic factors may change over time
- Includes population, economic growth, education, urbanization, and rate of technological development
- Five pathways based on different future climate policies and levels of climate change mitigation that could be achieved
- What will happen to CO2 levels depending on emissions
- Where emissions will travel to and observing those paths and patterns
- SSP1 sustainable focused growth and equality
- SSP2 trends broadly follow historical patterns
- SSP3 policies shift over time to become increasingly concerned with national/regional issues
- SSP4 world of increasing inequality
- SSP5 rapid and unconstrained growth