Socio-economic drivers - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM

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Model Documentation - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM

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Model information
Model link
Institution International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at.
Solution concept General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method Optimization
Anticipation

Socio-economic drivers are typically informed by a scenario narrative that describes in qualitative terms the overall logic behind the scenarios. In MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM, the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs, see O’Neill et al., 2014 MSG-GLB_oneill_new_2014) provide the overall scenario logic with which the main socio-economic drivers, population and GDP have been quantified.

SSP Narratives

Narratives have been developed for the SSPs (O'Neill et al., 2015). These descriptions of alternative future societal developments span a range of possible worlds that stretch along two climate change-related dimensions: mitigation and adaptation challenges. The SSPs reflect five different development pathways for the world that are characterized by varying levels of glboal challenges (see Riahi et al., 2017)