Climate future scenario
Figure 1: Climate Future Scenario
The circle represents the climate future scenario of the 2023 Outlook, which combines deep decarbonization by 2050 with the Paris Agreement temperature goals. The social plausibility of deep decarbonization is central to limiting global surface temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial times, whereas the physical plausibility is assessed also with respect to a global surface temperature increase of below 2°C.