Global long-run economic scenarios

Outlook to 2100 using six scenarios.

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Baseline business-as-usual scenario (BAU1): slower global potential growth in a warming
    world
  3. The impacts of an energy transition scenario are highly uncertain

Scenario drivers

  1. Energy transition (‘ET’): business-as-usual (‘BAU’) versus accelerated.
  2. Damage curve: median versus high.
  3. Carbon mitigation costs: none, slow and fast.

Scenarios

Using various combinations of the above drivers:

  1. BAU1.
  2. BAU2.
  3. ET1.
  4. ET2.
  5. ET3.
  6. ET4.