02. Scenarios and abatement

Every six years, Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes a major assessment of the options for emission reduction. The information is layered, with a Summary for Policy Makers with high-level information, Technical Summaries with more detail, and multiple chapters with a lot of detail and references to the underlying literature. The Fourth Assessment Report is the latest.

In 2000, the IPCC released a Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. More recent IPCC scenarios are referred to as Representative Concentration Pathways.

David MacKay has an excellent book, for free, on sustainable energy.

IDEAS/RePEc has a curated bibliography on this topic.