A dataset of emissions and removals from scenarios and pathways within long-term national climate strategies – the LTS-SP dataset

Smith, Harry B., Vaughan, Naomi E. and Forster, Johanna (2025) A dataset of emissions and removals from scenarios and pathways within long-term national climate strategies – the LTS-SP dataset. Scientific Data, 12. ISSN 2052-4463

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Abstract

Long-term low emission development strategies (LT-LEDS), supported by Article 4, paragraph 19, of the Paris Agreement, present scenarios and pathways aligned with national long-term climate targets. There is a growing interest in understanding whether the collective effort of national climate plans align with the goals of the Paris Agreement, alongside the feasibility, sectoral focus, and the balance of emissions and removals seen in national scenarios. Here we introduce the long-term strategy scenarios and pathways (LTS-SP) dataset, a dataset presenting scenarios and pathways detailed within LT-LEDS or similar long-term strategies. We detail the level of total and sectoral greenhouse gas emissions in 2050, or the year in which net zero is achieved, alongside the emissions and removals from land-use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) and removals from engineered carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. We provide a comprehensive overview of our procedure and compare our dataset with current published estimates. We end by summarising several caveats to our dataset, detailing the limitations of LT-LEDS, and their use in climate policy research.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding information: This work was funded by Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme DS-2020-028, the Critical Decade for Climate Change.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine Knowledge Exchange Network Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Apr 2025 13:30
Last Modified:	14 Apr 2025 00:17
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98990
DOI:	10.1038/s41597-025-04804-4

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