As world leaders meet in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, governments, companies, and industries are weighing in on how they can contribute to limiting the Earth’s rising temperatures. With targets laid out for the coming decades, the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has developed a 1.5-degree decarbonization scenario with hopes of driving a greater reduction of emissions. Utilizing comprehensive data gathered over decades, the IAI modeled this scenario after the International Energy Agency’s Net-Zero by 2050 scenario, which aims to balance the amount of greenhouse gas produced with the amount removed from the atmosphere by the year 2050. The IAI has also used its data to develop two further scenarios: the ‘Beyond 2 Degrees Scenario’ (B2DS) and the ‘Business As Usual’ scenario (BAU). While the former, though less ambitious than the 1.5-degree scenario, also complies with the Paris Agreement, the latter aims to show what would happen should no significant changes be made to emissions. “The 1.5 dataset is not a replacement of the B2DS; rather, it is a different option for organisations to consider in the drive to make the change needed to reduce emissions,” says…
International Aluminuim Institute Develops 1.5 Degree Decarbonization Scenario
November 10, 2021
