Table 2 Potential air pollution and climate change impact on initial well-being projections under the SSPs.

From: Can we project well-being? Towards integral well-being projections in climate models and beyond

  1. Colors indicate the potential direction of the impacts (green: well-being benefit; red: well-being damage; based on the known mechanisms and a comparison of current and future SSP estimates); color shades indicate the possible significance of the impacts (light to dark: low to high well-being impacts by ranking the numerical estimates for the SSPs in 2100).
  2. The potential trend/significance of the impacts (from left to right: +5 to −5):
  3. aMechanisms: (i) Energy transition → Air pollution → Mortality; (ii) Climate change → Temperature → Mortality; (iii) Energy transition → Air pollution → Health → Education performance; (iv) Temperature → Extreme weather events (e.g. floods) → Education attendance; (v) Temperature → Agriculture yield → Income; (vi) Temperature → Labor productivity → Income; (vii) Temperature → Extreme weather events → Economy burden & damage → income.
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