The Energy Modeling Forum (EMF)-30 study on short-lived climate forcers: introduction and overview.

This article is part of a Special Issue reporting results from the "Energy Modeling Forum (EMF)-30 Study on Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCF) and Air Quality" edited by John Weyant, Steven J Smith, and Zbigniew Klimont Introduction Anthropogenic climate change is driven largely by changes in atmospheric energy balance, termed radiative forcing. For road transport, emission trajectories show similar features with increasing fuel use and steady reduction of emissions (consistent with the CLE development of emission factors - see Fig. This highlights the need to move beyond quantification of the technical potential for methane emission reductions, as assumed in the EMF-30 scenarios, but to understand the barriers to implementing mitigation and to better understand the pace at which deep emission reductions could actually be put into place (van den Berg et al. [24], Höglund et al. [10]). Models that allow a methane price to have an economic impact on methane-emitting technologies show significant non-methane emission reductions, largely CO SB 2 sb , from the increasing methane price in the EMF-30 scenarios. [Extracted from the article]