The RCP8.5 scenario is a future climate pathway that assumes high greenhouse gas emissions and limited climate mitigation efforts, leading to significant global warming by the end of the century.

We find energy-based adaptation will lower global mean surface temperature in 2099 by 0.12 degrees Celsius (0.07 degrees Celsius) relative to baseline projections under RCP8.5 (RCP4.5) and avoid 1.8 ...

These are known as Representative Concentration Pathways (or RCPs). Our ‘no action’ scenario is based on RCP8.5, a pathway in which global emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century. It ...