Figure 2.1: Emission impacts of exploring the full spectrum of technological uncertainty in a given scenario without climate policies. Relative frequency (percent) of 130,000 scenarios of full technological uncertainty regrouped into 520 sets of technology dynamics with their corresponding carbon emissions by 2100. Also shown is a subset of 13,000 scenarios grouped into 53 sets of technology dynamics that are all ‘optimal’ in the sense of satisfying a cost minimization criterion in the objective function. See text for further discussion. 1 Gt C = 3.7 Gt CO₂

Source: Adapted from Gritsevskyi and Nakicenovic, 2000.