Part Two / How our Planet is Changing

2.3 Methane and Other Gases

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  1. thirty times more potent than CO2 over a hundred-year timeframe Szopa, S., et al., ‘Short-lived climate forcers’, in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/.

    future baseline emissions scenarios Riahi, K., et al., ‘The shared socioeconomic pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: an overview’, Global Environmental Change, 42, 2017: 153–68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.05.009.