Highligjts

- A French foresighters team had been asked to cluster the main environmental scenarios described in international studies.

•The synthesis of the 307 scenarios described in 99 studies highlighted 11 societal and environmental pathways.

•Those 11 pathways can be clustered in 3 groups: Decline, No priority to environment, With priority to environment.

•Governance, economy and societies, in that order, showed to be the main drivers of the scenarios.

• Ocean, coastal areas and forest are rarely cited as driving factors for environmental scenarios.