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Mitigation scenarios must cater to new users

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Climate change mitigation scenarios are finding a wider set of users, including companies and financial institutions. Increased collaboration between scenario producers and these new communities will be mutually beneficial, educating companies and investors on climate risks while grounding climate science in real-world needs.

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Fig. 1: Near-term rate of change for market-relevant variables from research and industry scenarios.

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Underlying scenario data for Shared Socioeconomic Pathways are available from the online SSP database. Data for other scenarios, where not covered by licensing restrictions, are available upon request.

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  1. World Wildlife Fund, Washington DC, USA

    Christopher Weber

  2. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

    David L. McCollum

  3. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Jae Edmonds

  4. CDP Global, London, UK

    Pedro Faria

  5. Oliver Wyman, Financial Services, New York, NY, USA

    Alban Pyanet

  6. Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Joeri Rogelj

  7. Energy Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

    Joeri Rogelj

  8. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Joeri Rogelj

  9. RFF CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), Department of Management and Economics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Massimo Tavoni

  10. 2° Investing Initiative Deutschland, Berlin, Germany

    Jakob Thoma

  11. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK

    Jakob Thoma

  12. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

    Elmar Kriegler

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C.W. primarily performed the data analysis and initial drafting with input from D.M. All other authors provided substantive feedback and ideas to substance and structure of text and figures.

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Weber, C., McCollum, D.L., Edmonds, J. et al. Mitigation scenarios must cater to new users. Nature Clim Change 8, 845–848 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0293-8

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