Representative Concentration Pathway

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Different RCP scenarios result in different predicted greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere (from 2000 to 2100). RCP8.5 would result in the highest greenhouse gas concentration (measured as CO2-equivalents). All forcing agents CO2 equivalent concentration.svg
Different RCP scenarios result in different predicted greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere (from 2000 to 2100). RCP8.5 would result in the highest greenhouse gas concentration (measured as CO2-equivalents).

Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) are climate change scenarios to project future greenhouse gas concentrations. These pathways (or trajectories) describe future greenhouse gas concentrations (not emissions) and have been formally adopted by the IPCC. The pathways describe different climate change scenarios, all of which were considered possible depending on the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted in the years to come. The four RCPs – originally RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6, and RCP8.5 – are labelled after a possible range of radiative forcing values in the year 2100 (2.6, 4.5, 6, and 8.5 W/m2, respectively). [1] [2] [3] The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) began to use these four pathways for climate modeling and research in 2014. The higher values mean higher greenhouse gas emissions and therefore higher global surface temperatures and more pronounced effects of climate change. The lower RCP values, on the other hand, are more desirable for humans but would require more stringent climate change mitigation efforts to achieve them.

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In the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report the original pathways are now being considered together with Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. There are three new RCPs, namely RCP1.9, RCP3.4 and RCP7. [4] A short description of the RCPs is as follows: RCP 1.9 is a pathway that limits global warming to below 1.5 °C, the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement. [4] RCP 2.6 is a very stringent pathway. [4] RCP 3.4 represents an intermediate pathway between the very stringent RCP2.6 and less stringent mitigation efforts associated with RCP4.5. [5] RCP 4.5 is described by the IPCC as an intermediate scenario. [6] In RCP 6, emissions peak around 2080, then decline. [7] RCP7 is a baseline outcome rather than a mitigation target. [4] In RCP 8.5 emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century. [8] : Figure 2, p. 223 

For the extended RCP2.6 scenario, global warming of 0.0 to 1.2 °C is projected for the late-23rd century (2281–2300 average), relative to 1986–2005. [9] For the extended RCP8.5, global warming of 3.0 to 12.6 °C is projected over the same time period. [9]

Concentrations

The RCPs are consistent with a wide range of possible changes in future anthropogenic (i.e., human) greenhouse gas emissions, and aim to represent their atmospheric concentrations. [10] Despite characterizing RCPs in terms of inputs, a key change from the 2007 to the 2014 IPCC report is that the RCPs ignore the carbon cycle by focusing on concentrations of greenhouse gases, not greenhouse gas inputs. [11] The IPCC studies the carbon cycle separately, predicting higher ocean uptake of carbon corresponding to higher concentration pathways, but land carbon uptake is much more uncertain due to the combined effect of climate change and land use changes. [12]

The four RCPs are consistent with certain socio-economic assumptions but are being substituted with the shared socioeconomic pathways which are anticipated to provide flexible descriptions of possible futures within each RCP. The RCP scenarios superseded the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios projections published in 2000 and were based on similar socio-economic models. [13]

Pathways used in modelling

RCP 1.9

RCP 1.9 is a pathway that limits global warming to below 1.5 °C, the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement. [4]

RCP 2.6

RCP 2.6 is a "very stringent" pathway. [4] According to the IPCC, RCP 2.6 requires that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions start declining by 2020 and go to zero by 2100. It also requires that methane emissions (CH4) go to approximately half the CH4 levels of 2020, and that sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions decline to approximately 10% of those of 1980–1990. Like all the other RCPs, RCP 2.6 requires negative CO2 emissions (such as CO2 absorption by trees). For RCP 2.6, those negative emissions would be on average 2 Gigatons of CO2 per year (GtCO2/yr). [14] RCP 2.6 is likely to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C by 2100. [6]

RCP 3.4

RCP 3.4 represents an intermediate pathway between the "very stringent" RCP2.6 and less stringent mitigation efforts associated with RCP4.5. [5] As well as just providing another option a variant of RCP3.4 includes considerable removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. [4]

A 2021 paper suggests that the most plausible projections of cumulative CO2 emissions (having a 0.1% or 0.3% tolerance with historical accuracy) tend to suggest that RCP 3.4 (3.4 W/m^2, 2.0–2.4 degrees Celsius warming by 2100 according to study) is the most plausible pathway. [15]

RCP 4.5

RCP 4.5 is described by the IPCC as an intermediate scenario. [6] Emissions in RCP 4.5 peak around 2040, then decline. [8] : Figure 2, p. 223  According to resource specialists IPCC emission scenarios are biased towards exaggerated availability of fossil fuels reserves; RCP 4.5 is the most probable baseline scenario (no climate policies) taking into account the exhaustible character of non-renewable fuels. [16] [17]

According to the IPCC, RCP 4.5 requires that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions start declining by approximately 2045 to reach roughly half of the levels of 2050 by 2100. It also requires that methane emissions (CH4) stop increasing by 2050 and decline somewhat to about 75% of the CH4 levels of 2040, and that sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions decline to approximately 20% of those of 1980–1990. Like all the other RCPs, RCP 4.5 requires negative CO2 emissions (such as CO2 absorption by trees). For RCP 4.5, those negative emissions would be 2 Gigatons of CO2 per year (GtCO2/yr). [14] RCP 4.5 is more likely than not to result in global temperature rise between 2 °C and 3 °C, by 2100 with a mean sea level rise 35% higher than that of RCP 2.6. [18] Many plant and animal species will be unable to adapt to the effects of RCP 4.5 and higher RCPs. [19]

RCP 6

In RCP 6, emissions peak around 2080, then decline. [7] The RCP 6.0 scenario uses a high greenhouse gas emission rate and is a stabilisation scenario where total radiative forcing is stabilised after 2100 by employment of a range of technologies and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 6.0 W/m2 refers to the radiative forcing reached by 2100 Projections for temperature according to RCP 6.0 include continuous global warming through 2100 where CO2 levels rise to 670 ppm by 2100 making the global temperature rise by about 3–4 °C by 2100. [20]

RCP 7

RCP7 is a baseline outcome rather than a mitigation target. [4]

RCP 8.5

In RCP 8.5 emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century. [8] : Figure 2, p. 223  Since AR5 this has been thought to be very unlikely, but still possible as feedbacks are not well understood. [21] [22] RCP8.5, generally taken as the basis for worst-case climate change scenarios, was based on what proved to be overestimation of projected coal outputs. It is still used for predicting mid-century (and earlier) emissions based on current and stated policies. [23]

Projections based on the RCPs

21st century

Mid- and late-21st century (2046–2065 and 2081–2100 averages, respectively) projections of global warming and global mean sea level rise from the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5 WG1) are tabulated below. The projections are relative to temperatures and sea levels in the late-20th to early-21st centuries (1986–2005 average). Temperature projections can be converted to a reference period of 1850–1900 or 1980–99 by adding 0.61 or 0.11 °C, respectively. [24]

AR5 global warming increase (°C) projections [24]
Scenario2046–20652081–2100
Mean (likely range)Mean (likely range)
RCP2.61.0 (0.4 to 1.6)1.0 (0.3 to 1.7)
RCP4.51.4 (0.9 to 2.0)1.8 (1.1 to 2.6)
RCP61.3 (0.8 to 1.8)2.2 (1.4 to 3.1)
RCP8.52.0 (1.4 to 2.6)3.7 (2.6 to 4.8)

Across all RCPs, global mean temperature is projected to rise by 0.3 to 4.8 °C by the late 21st century.

According to a 2021 study in which plausible AR5 and SSP scenarios of CO2 emissions are selected, [15]

AR5 and SSP Scenarios and temperature change projections
SSP ScenarioRange of Global Mean Temperature Increase (Celsius) – 2100 from pre-Industrial baseline
RCP 1.9~1 to ~1.5
RCP 2.6~1.5 to ~2
RCP 3.4~2 to ~2.4
RCP 4.5~2.5 to ~3
RCP 6.0~3 to ~3.5
RCP 7.5~4
RCP 8.5~5
AR5 global mean sea level (m) increase projections [24]
Scenario2046–20652081–2100
Mean (likely range)Mean (likely range)
RCP2.60.24 (0.17 to 0.32)0.40 (0.26 to 0.55)
RCP4.50.26 (0.19 to 0.33)0.47 (0.32 to 0.63)
RCP60.25 (0.18 to 0.32)0.48 (0.33 to 0.63)
RCP8.50.30 (0.22 to 0.38)0.63 (0.45 to 0.82)

| RCP 8.6 || {insert Here} |

Across all RCPs, global mean sea level is projected to rise by 0.26 to 0.82 m by the late-21st century.

23rd century

The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report also projected changes in climate beyond the 21st century. The extended RCP2.6 pathway assumes sustained net negative anthropogenic GHG emissions after the year 2070. [10] Negative emissions means that in total, humans absorb more GHGs from the atmosphere than they release. The extended RCP8.5 pathway assumes continued anthropogenic GHG emissions after 2100. [10] In the extended RCP 2.6 pathway, atmospheric CO2 concentrations reach around 360 ppmv by 2300, while in the extended RCP8.5 pathway, CO2 concentrations reach around 2000 ppmv in 2250, which is nearly seven times the pre-industrial level. [10]

For the extended RCP2.6 scenario, global warming of 0.0 to 1.2 °C is projected for the late-23rd century (2281–2300 average), relative to 1986–2005. [9] For the extended RCP8.5, global warming of 3.0 to 12.6 °C is projected over the same time period. [9]

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