Shilpa Rao

Biographic Data

ID6567991
NAMEShilpa Rao
GIVEN NAMESShilpa
FAMILY NAMERao
SIGNATURERAO S
AFFILIATIONSInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
ORCID0000-0003-4012-9063
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS423
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Temperature-attributable mortality projections under scenarios of climate change for Oslo, Norway

    Open AccessLiliana Vázquez Fernández, Alfonso Diz-Lois Palomares et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Climate change and evolving of population dynamics, including ageing and changes in population size, are reshaping temperature-attributable mortality patterns. However, there is limited evidence on the prospective trajectory of heat- and cold-attributable mortality in Oslo, particularly under combined scenarios of global warming and population development. This study aims to project heat- and cold-attributable mortality in Oslo and assess the dis…

  • Associations of ambient exposure to benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene with daily mortality

    Open AccessLu Zhou, Xiong Ying et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2025

  • Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold

    Open AccessPierre Masselot, Malcolm Mistry et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2023

    BACKGROUND: Heat and cold are established environmental risk factors for human health. However, mapping the related health burden is a difficult task due to the complexity of the associations and the differences in vulnerability and demographic distributions. In this study, we did a comprehensive mortality impact assessment due to heat and cold in European urban areas, considering geographical differences and age-specific risks. METHODS: We inclu…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019

    Open AccessQi Zhao, Yuming Guo et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Exposure to cold or hot temperatures is associated with premature deaths. We aimed to evaluate the global, regional, and national mortality burden associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures. METHODS: In this modelling study, we collected time-series data on mortality and ambient temperatures from 750 locations in 43 countries and five meta-predictors at a grid size of 0·5° × 0·5° across the globe. A three-stage analysis strategy…

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

    Open AccessAna M Vicedo‐Cabrera, Noah Scovronick et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2021

    Climate change affects human health; however, there have been no large-scale, systematic efforts to quantify the heat-related human health impacts that have already occurred due to climate change. Here, we use empirical data from 732 locations in 43 countries to estimate the mortality burdens associated with the additional heat exposure that has resulted from recent human-induced warming, during the period 1991-2018. Across all study countries, w…

  • A framework for nitrogen futures in the shared socioeconomic pathways

    Open AccessDavid Kanter, David R Kanter et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 6

    Humanity's transformation of the nitrogen cycle has major consequences for ecosystems, climate and human health, making it one of the key environmental issues of our time. Understanding how trends could evolve over the course of the 21 st century is crucial for scientists and decision-makers from local to global scales. Scenario analysis is the primary tool for doing so, and has been applied across all major environmental issues, including nitrog…

  • A multi-model assessment of the co-benefits of climate mitigation for global air quality

    Open AccessShilpa Rao, Zbigniew Klimont et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    We present a model comparison study that combines multiple integrated assessment models with a reduced-form global air quality model to assess the potential co-benefits of global climate mitigation policies in relation to the World Health Organization (WHO) goals on air quality and health. We include in our assessment, a range of alternative assumptions on the implementation of current and planned pollution control policies. The resulting air pol…

  • The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2

    Open AccessOliver Fricko, Peter Havlík et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 58References: 10

    Studies of global environmental change make extensive use of scenarios to explore how the future can evolve under a consistent set of assumptions. The recently developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) create a framework for the study of climate-related scenario outcomes. Their five narratives span a wide range of worlds that vary in their challenges for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Here we provide background on the quantificati…

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications

    Open AccessKeywan Riahi, Detlef P Van Vuuren et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 311References: 12

    This paper presents the overview of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and their energy, land use, and emissions implications. The SSPs are part of a new scenario framework, established by the climate change research community in order to facilitate the integrated analysis of future climate impacts, vulnerabilities, adaptation, and mitigation. The pathways were developed over the last years as a joint community effort and describe plausible…

  • Future air pollution in the Shared Socio-economic Pathways

    Open AccessShilpa Rao, Zbigniew Klimont et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 23

    Emissions of air pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides and particulates have significant health impacts as well as effects on natural and anthropogenic ecosystems. These same emissions also can change atmospheric chemistry and the planetary energy balance, thereby impacting global and regional climate. Long-term scenarios for air pollutant emissions are needed as inputs to global climate and chemistry models, and for analysis linking air …

  • A short note on integrated assessment modeling approaches

    Open AccessElmar Kriegler, Keywan Riahi et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2015

  • Moving towards ambitious climate policies

    Open AccessSimone Schucht, Augustin Colette et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Understanding the contribution of non-carbon dioxide gases in deep mitigation scenarios

    Open AccessDavid Gernaat, Katherine Calvin et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 10References: 1

  • Household Cooking with Solid Fuels Contributes to Ambient PM 2.5 Air Pollution and the Burden of Disease

    Open AccessZoë Chafe, Zoë A Chafe et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Health Perspectives2014

    BACKGROUND: Approximately 2.8 billion people cook with solid fuels. Research has focused on the health impacts of indoor exposure to fine particulate pollution. Here, for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease project (GBD 2010), we evaluated the impact of household cooking with solid fuels on regional population-weighted ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm) pollution (APM2.5). OBJECTIVES: We estimated the proportion and concentrations of APM2.…

  • Making or breaking climate targets

    Open AccessElmar Kriegler, Keywan Riahi et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2014

    This study explores a situation of staged accession to a global climate policy regime from the current situation of regionally fragmented and moderate climate action. The analysis is based on scenarios in which a front runner coalition – the EU or the EU and China – embarks on immediate ambitious climate action while the rest of the world makes a transition to a global climate regime between 2030 and 2050. We assume that the ensuing regime involv…

  • CO2 emission mitigation and fossil fuel markets

    Open AccessNico Bauer, Valentina Bosetti et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2013

    This paper explores a multi-model scenario ensemble to assess the impacts of idealized and non-idealized climate change stabilization policies on fossil fuel markets. Under idealized conditions climate policies significantly reduce coal use in the short- and long-term. Reductions in oil and gas use are much smaller, particularly until 2030, but revenues decrease much more because oil and gas prices are higher than coal prices. A first deviation f…

  • Better air for better health

    Open AccessShilpa Rao, Saroj Pachauri et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 14

  • RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions

    Open AccessKeywan Riahi, Shilpa Rao et al.ARTICLEClimatic Change2011

    This paper summarizes the main characteristics of the RCP8.5 scenario. The RCP8.5 combines assumptions about high population and relatively slow income growth with modest rates of technological change and energy intensity improvements, leading in the long term to high energy demand and GHG emissions in absence of climate change policies. Compared to the total set of Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), RCP8.5 thus corresponds to the path…