Reinvigorating the scenario technique to expand uncertainty consideration

Evelina Trutnevyte (), Céline Guivarch, Robert Lempert and Neil Strachan
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Evelina Trutnevyte: ETH Zurich
Robert Lempert: RAND Corporation
Neil Strachan: University College London

Climatic Change, 2016, vol. 135, issue 3, No 1, 373-379

Abstract: Abstract Scenarios are widely used for long-term climate and energy analysis. However, in the great majority of studies with a handful of scenarios or scenario categories, both scenario developers and users capture only a subset of future uncertainties. We propose three focal points for reinvigorating the scenario technique to expand uncertainty consideration: (1) to ensure that scenario developers embrace an increased space of multidimensional uncertainties, (2) to facilitate the process of scenario users capturing this space, and (3) to evaluate and iteratively revise the improvement progress. If these focal points are adopted, scenario studies in climate and energy analysis shall not simply stop after producing scenarios, but shall continue with techniques to facilitate elicitation of user-specific insights, as well as evaluation of both scenarios and scenario techniques.

Date: 2016
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