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Climate futures require politics

Leininger, Julia / Halvard Buhaug / Elisabeth Gilmore / Staffan I. Lindberg / Marina Andrijevic / Elina Brutschin
External Publications (2026)

in: Nature Communications 17, article 3572

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71711-6
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Climate action is shaped as much by politics as by technology and economics. The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), central to mitigation and adaptation assessments, do not yet include a quantitative representation of political development. We outline a research agenda to systematically integrate political dimensions into climate scenario modelling.

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