Synthesizing and communicating knowledge on climate change to policymakers and stakeholders is often difficult due to the complexity and diversity of underlying research. As a “translation” instrument, the open-source R package mipplot can be used to visualize data of long-term climate mitigation scenarios. With simple commands and under a user-friendly R language platform, this tool generates plots in multiple languages for any scenario dataset following the data submission format of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium.
The initial audience of mipplot are researchers and students interested in climate change mitigation scenarios, expected to be able to handle R packages via function calls. The tool’s design also aims to reach stakeholders without technical expertise on model or data manipulation, by including an interactive interface. With the two plotting approaches, mipplot offers greater flexibility of inputs and suits both experts and non-experts. Moreover, its capability of specifying aggregation rules and different display languages extends its applicability to a broader range of users.

Please find mipplot v0.3.0 here.