Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)2025-01-242025-01-242022-02https://hdl.handle.net/1828/21020This PCIC Primer, on Understanding Future Climate Scenarios, provides context for, and an explanation of, two sets of emissions scenarios, the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), used for the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) and the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), used in CMIP6.en#summary reportUN SDG 13: Climate Action#PCIC publicationReport