Worst‑case climate scenario scrapped, action making a difference

There is always strong interest when major new climate change scenarios are published. These scenarios reveal what our future climate will look like depending on how quickly we act to reduce emissions.

But the surprising thing about this seven new scenarios announced last week Was US President Donald Trump attracted attention.

From where? Because the high emissions scenario known as RCP8.5 and its successor SSP5-8.5 were removed. Under these worst-case scenarios, countries will make no effort to reduce emissions and expand fossil fuel use.