Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1818 Article 2

Reference temperature scenario

Article 2

Administrators of EU Climate Transition Benchmarks and administrators of EU Paris-aligned Benchmarks shall use the 1,5 °C scenario, with no or limited overshoot, referred to in the Special Report on Global Warming of 1,5 °C from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the reference temperature scenario to design the methodology to construct those benchmarks.

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