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kikstra.bsky.social
Research scholar at IIASA. Imperial College London. Contributing author IPCC AR6 WG3 (assessed temperatures of the scenarios). Climate, energy, economics, decent living standards, and justice.
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Scenarios from Integrated Assessment & energy systems models are an important part of the policy discourse for getting to net-zero. IIASA, IAMC and the Earth Fund are starting a new initiative to make these scenarios more accessible and actionable! #ScenarioCompass scenariocompass.org/news

submitted 132 days ago • 3 comments

Feels weird reposting this with everything that's going on, but... We are compiling an emissions & energy scenario ensemble that will hopefully be useful to IPCC AR7. Submission deadline March 1. A little step towards #OpenScience and #FreeTheModels... #ScenarioCompass

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Have you ever wondered if the global leadership on climate would be less depressing if we had more Luisas and fewer Elons? With gender equality backsliding everywhere, it’s super important to stress its role in addressing the climate crisis. A 🧵 on our new paper on gender equality & scenarios:

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

New #vacancy 🚨 ➡️ Do you know how to find, process and analyse data? ➡️ Can you spot opportunities to use data to inform topical talking points? ➡️ Do you want to contribute to accurate reporting of climate change and energy? Apply for the data analyst position here ⬇️

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Fairness has always been central to international climate talks, and its interpretation has been diverse, to say the least... Our new paper identifies key ‘entry points’ where crucial, often hidden, decisions are made that underlie fairness assertions in practice. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

EGU25 CMIP Forcings session (anthro + natural). Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 13:00 CET(!) Link: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Submit anything that deals with: - responses to forcing changes; - uses CMIP7, CMIP6, or other CMIP phases Please circulate! ...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

New dataset: Tidy GHG Inventories (zenodo.org/records/1451...) I extracted emissions data from the national inventories and put it into a tidy, consistent format. The kind of format that I would actually use.

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

Applications for the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2025 are open until 13 January 2025! Are you an advanced PhD student ready to take your research further? Learn more and apply: iiasa.ac.at/early-career... #PHDcourse #PHDprogram #Earlycareerresearcher

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

EGU25 CMIP Forcings session (anthro + natural). Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 13:00 CET(!) Link: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Submit anything that deals with: - responses to forcing changes; - uses CMIP7, CMIP6, or other CMIP phases Please circulate! ...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Climate action is falling terribly short Time to bury the 1.5C goal? Absolutely not - why the 1.5 goal must prevail (even when global warming exceeds 1.5C) My opinion for Project Syndicate 👇 www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

submitted 100 days ago • 7 comments

Accountability. Key to achieving climate justice is to hold responsible high emitters. We need to increase accountability. Taking 1.5C off the table decreases accountability; it risks reducing the climate debt of rich countries, beclouding what the accountability target should be. Let's not? Read:

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

#COP29 is all about putting more money on the table. "We need to move from billions to trillions", says IIASA's Shonali Pachauri from IIASA. iiasa.ac.at/blog/nov-202...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Our new study “Multiple pathways towards sustainable development goals and climate targets” - A summary thread Read it in full here (open-access): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

A brief perspective, hot off the press. “When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place.” 1/11 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 305 days ago • 2 comments

400 Bäume sind möglich! #Gumpi #Gumpendorferstraße 400 Bäume sind nötig! Ein paar gibt es ja schon. Wie hier vor der Kirche in Gumpendorf. @gruenewien.bsky.social @spoewien.bsky.social

submitted 319 days ago • 1 comment

The #Energy #Climate & #Environment program at #IIASA is looking for an #IntegratedAssessment modeler to join the #MESSAGEix team! Come work with us on policy-relevant scenarios and state-of-the-art #opensource #ScientificSoftware tools... 📝 iiasa.ac.at/employment/j... 🔌💡

submitted 328 days ago • 0 comments

NEW PUBLICATION! Can degrowth save the world? Co-author @jasonhickel.bsky.social made the case in a book. How do these ideas stack up in a systems model? How are such scenarios different from scenarios used in the IPCC? Let’s find out! Open-access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 331 days ago • 1 comment

For the Imperial College Sustainability Week, I wrote a blog on a just transition with decent living standards. The post reflects on: what is justice, what can we know about a just transition, and models supporting our thinking (not replace it).

submitted 371 days ago • 0 comments

The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are a key input to climate change mitigation & adaptation research - but what about urbanization, structural change & governance? Join the launch webinar of the SSP-Extensions Explorer! 🗓️29 Feb 2024 ⏰15pm CET iiasa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 371 days ago • 1 comment