Exploring the future role of Asia utilizing a Scenario Matrix Architecture and Shared Socio-economic Pathways

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We explore the implications that alternative pathways for human population and economic development have for the role of Asia in reference no-climate-policy scenarios and scenarios in which climate forcing is limited. We consider three different pathways of socioeconomic development, which we refer to as Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) and four different levels of limitation on climate forcing, which we refer to as Shared Climate Policy Assumptions (SPAS). SSPs are differentiated by population and economic growth assumptions, while SPAS are differentiated on the level of radiative forcing in the year 2100. Regardless of the scenarios we examined Asia plays a central role in shaping the world's future with nearly half of the world's people and more than half of the world's economic activity and energy consumption. The future of Asia and the world are dramatically different across the various combinations of SSPs and SPAs. High population worlds place significant stress on Asian resources and ecosystems. In high population SSPs the poorest members of the population face high energy and food prices and the more stringent the level of emissions mitigation, the more stress poor populations experience, though the more stringent the emissions mitigation, the larger the area of unmanaged ecosystems that are preserved. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Issue Date
2012-12
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

CLIMATE-CHANGE; ENERGY

Citation

ENERGY ECONOMICS, v.34, no.SI, pp.325 - 338

ISSN
0140-9883
DOI
10.1016/j.eneco.2012.03.012
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/191182
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