EMF 37 analyzed scenarios for economy-wide net zero carbon dioxide emissions in North America by midcentury. Sixteen modeling teams explored technology evolutions, policies, and behavioral assumptions for energy supply and demand. Results focus on emissions projections, evolution of energy systems, and economic activity. Broad agreement in energy system trends towards deep decarbonization of the power sector, increased end-use electrification of buildings and transportation, and to a lesser extent, industry. All models show a reliance on negative emissions technologies to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions. This dataset include model outputs from the participating modeling groups.

This dataset is associated with the following publication: Browning, M., J. McFarland, J. Bistline, G. Boyd, M. Muratori, M. Binstead , C. Harris, T. Mai, G. Blanford, J. Edmonds, A. Fawcett, P. Kaplanakman, and J. Weyant. Net-zero CO2 by 2050 scenarios for the United States in the Energy Modeling Forum 37 study. Energy and Climate Change. Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 4: 100104, (2023).