Future emissions scenarios for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report should explore the carbon budget space in a systematic manner, which would be robust to the updates of latest climate science, so that policy implications can be adequately assessed.
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We acknowledge IIASA for hosting and maintaining the IPCC SR1.5 Scenario Database at https://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/iamc-1.5c-explorer/. S.F. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant no. 19H02273 and by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (2-1908) of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan. K.R. and V.K. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 821471 (ENGAGE).
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Fujimori, S., Rogelj, J., Krey, V. et al. A new generation of emissions scenarios should cover blind spots in the carbon budget space. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 798–800 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0611-9
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