> This year it omits the “current policies scenario” (CPS), which usually “provides a baseline…by outlining a future in which no new policies are added to those already in place”. This is because “[i]t is difficult to imagine this ‘business as-usual’ approach prevailing in today’s circumstances”.
I guess that’s one way to say “our predictions did not even match current policies at all and the model was too complex and out of date for us to make it reflect today’s reality.
Or "We think current policies are so obviously insane that they must change very shortly". But politics can stay irrational longer than... well, certainly longer than the time to your next report.
