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Integrated assessment model for the 1.5° scenario

Collaborators: Ashwin Seshadri (Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

The Paris Agreement aims to keep “global temperature rise this century well below 2 Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 Celsius”. We use a stylized integrated assessment model to analyse the feasibility of the 1.5 target. Most integrated assessment and global circulation models that achieve the 1.5 targets use direct air capture, carbon sequestration and other negative emissions technologies. We model the role of these negative emissions technologies. The 1.5 target might be difficult for probable or infeasible depending on the availability and quantum of these technologies.