CHAPTER II MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE DESIGN OF THE BENCHMARK METHODOLOGY
SECTION 1 MINIMUM STANDARDS COMMON FOR EU CLIMATE TRANSITION BENCHMARKS AND EU PARIS-ALIGNED BENCHMARKS
Article 2 Reference temperature scenario
Administrators of EU Climate Transition Benchmarks and administrators of EU Paris-aligned Benchmarks shall use the 1,5 °C scenario, with no or limited overshoot, referred to in the Special Report on Global Warming of 1,5 °C from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the reference temperature scenario to design the methodology to construct those benchmarks.