SSP1-VLLO-UPTAKE
Scenario · Cooperative world
Long Road
Early, sustained mitigation with the smallest reliance on late-century removals.
The story
Long Road is the cooperative-world pathway: long-term, sustainable, and low-CDR. The world acts early and keeps at it, so emissions fall steadily rather than being rescued by a late technological surge. Carbon removal is front-loaded into land-based methods and stays comparatively modest.
It maps to ScenarioMIP SSP1-VLLO (very low emissions, low overshoot). Of the three roads it demands the least end-of-century removal — the reward for not overshooting.
Key numbers · World
—CDR · 2050
—CDR · 2100
—net-zero CO₂
—novel CDR · 2100
Values from the WITCH ssp1_VLLO run; net-zero is the year World Emissions|CO2 crosses zero.
Total carbon removal over time
Total CDR — Long Road
Carbon Removal for World, 2005–2100 (Gt CO₂/yr).Removal by method
CDR by method (stacked)
Land use (conventional)
BECCS
DACCS
Enhanced weathering
Net CO₂ emissions
Net CO₂ emissions
Emissions|CO2 (solid) with the energy & industry and land (AFOLU) components (dotted), World, Gt CO₂/yr. Below zero means net removal.Keep exploring