The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) relies on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 (CMIP5), a collaborative climate modelling process coordinated by the World Climate Research Programme. CMIP5 supports future projections of climate associated with different atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) specified by Representative Concentration Pathways or RCPs. This lesson looks at four RCPs in more detail.

In this lesson you will learn:
1) The four main RCP's included in the IPCC AR5 report.
2) The five Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) in the 6th IPCC report
3) Projections of future temperatures based on different future emission scenarios

Time Requirement
This lesson should take around 40 minutes.