Fig. 2: Global gridded projections for residential air-conditioning (AC) ownership and use inequality.
From: Inequalities in global residential cooling energy use to 2050
Maps and bar charts of AC ownership (% and count of households) (a, b) and (c, d) household AC electricity consumption (gigawatt-hours yr−1 and terawatt-hours yr−1), historical (2020 and 2050 for Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenario 2(45). Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Global Climate Models (GCM) enemble median (exluding 'hot models'62). Supplementary Figs. 11–13 in the Supplementary Information provide similar maps and bar charts for SSP scenarios 1(26), 3(70) and 5(85).
