【Speaker】： Marina Andrijevic (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, research scholar)

【Title】：A Decade of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their Extensions

【Time】：10:00 am, Oct 30, 2026.

【Location】：Beijing Lab for System Engineering of Carbon Neutrality

【About Report】：This talk reflects on a decade of developing and using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and their extensions as a common language for climate research and policy. It traces how SSPs have evolved from a set of global narratives into a flexible framework that now incorporates multiple dimensions of societal change, including institutions, inequality, and adaptation.Building on Marina Andrijevic’s work, the presentation will show how governance, gender equality, and adaptation capacity have been systematically brought into SSP-based scenarios, and what this has meant for assessing climate risk and options. Looking ahead, the talk will outline emerging directions for SSP extensions, including closer integration of political development, social justice, and adaptation constraints. It will argue that enriching socioeconomic pathways along these lines is essential to make scenarios more policy-relevant, particularly for evaluating who can adapt, under what conditions, and with what distributional consequences.