SSP

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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
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