Taking the Highway or the Green Road? Conditional Temperature Forecasts Under Alternative SSP Scenarios

Anthoulla Phella, Vasco J. Gabriel and Luis F. Martins

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Abstract: In this paper, using the Bayesian VAR framework suggested by Chan et al. (2025), we produce conditional temperature forecasts up until 2050, by exploiting both equality and inequality constraints on climate drivers like carbon dioxide or methane emissions. Engaging in a counterfactual scenario analysis by imposing a Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenario of "business as-usual", with no mitigation and high emissions, we observe that conditional and unconditional forecasts would follow a similar path. Instead, if a high mitigation with low emissions scenario were to be followed, the conditional temperature paths would remain below the unconditional trajectory after 2040, i.e. temperatures increases can potentially slow down in a meaningful way, but the lags for changes in emissions to have an effect are quite substantial. The latter should be taken into account greatly when designing response policies to climate change.

Date: 2025-09
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