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Modelling education and climate change

Various scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions indicate possible futures for climate change. Are they probable?

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Fig. 1: CO2 emissions in gigatonnes (GtCO2) across all IAM models and SSPs for baseline no-climate-policy scenarios.

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Keilman, N. Modelling education and climate change. Nat Sustain 3, 497–498 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0515-8

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