One common approach for exploring the implications of different development trajectories is the use of scenarios of future socioeconomic conditions, such as the SSPs . The SSPs represent sets of future global societal assumptions based on different societal, technological and economic assumptions that result in different development trajectories. Such scenarios often correspond to a small set of scenario archetypes  in that they reflect core themes regarding the future of development such as sustainability versus rapid growth. Scenarios with assumptions more closely aligned with sustainability agendas  commonly imply lower greenhouse gas emissions and projected climate change , lower mitigation costs for ambitious climate goals , lower climate exposure due in large part to the size of society  and greater adaptive capacity  . In contrast, scenarios with rapid global economic and fossil energy growth  imply higher emissions and project climate change and higher mitigation costs, as well as greater social and economic capacity to adapt to climate change impacts  .
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