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Guest post: How CMIP7 will shape the next wave of climate science
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Nature & Climate Perspective
**CMIP7 will fundamentally redefine our understanding of carbon sink capacities by delivering high-resolution projections of climate feedback loops on LULUCF and Blue Carbon systems. **
- Provides granular forecasting of biological feedback mechanisms, allowing analysts to accurately discount the long-term permanence risks of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).
- Enhances regional climate projection resolution, exposing localized tipping points that threaten the ecological stability of active carbon sequestration projects.
- Informs critical baselines for biodiversity preservation by simulating the direct impacts of updated overshoot scenarios on sensitive marine and terrestrial habitats.
Market & Policy Outlook
**The updated climate models of CMIP7 will force a structural recalculation of corporate SBTi targets and challenge the ICVCM CCPs on baseline robustness. **
- Directly impacts the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) regarding 'robust quantification,' compelling registries to shift from historical baselines to predictive, model-driven baselines.
- Triggers potential tightening of corporate Scope 3 and net-zero targets under SBTi as climate sensitivity estimates and remaining carbon budgets are refined.
- Shapes the future pricing of ITMOs under Article 6.2 and 6.4 by altering sovereign risk profiles and national contribution (NDC) adequacy metrics.
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