Nature – Smith et al. (2025): 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., Forster, Johanna IN: Scientific Data, DOI 10.1038/s41597-025-04804-4
The authors 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. They 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. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of our procedure and compare our dataset with current published estimates.