Components of the integrated CLICCS Plausibility Assessment Framework
Figure 2: Components of the integrated CLICCS Plausibility Assessment Framework
The figure illustrates how social drivers of decarbonization (in the gray arrow) and physical processes (all around the arrow) are embedded, act, and exist within the physical boundary conditions (encircled in the lines). Social drivers and physical processes influence each other and affect both the global opportunity structure (blue area in the center) and the physical boundary conditions. Thus, both are not static but dynamic. On the right side, the figure shows the chosen climate future scenario, which combines deep decarbonization by 2050 with the Paris Agreement temperature goals. The assessment of the social drivers’ and physical processes’ dynamics, and their enabling and constraining conditions, leads to a conjecture about the plausibility of the selected climate future scenario (for details, see Section 6.1 and 6.2).