Jarmo Kikstra

Jarmo Kikstra is a research assistant in the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program (ECE). He is part of both the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC) and the Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS) research groups.

His research is interdisciplinary, with a main scientific interest in the integrated assessment of scenarios of climate change and the linkages to a broader suite of sustainable development objectives. He is working on the Decent Living Energy Project, which aims to gain insight into the present state of multidimensional poverty from a basic needs perspective, its relation to energy requirements, and the implications for climate mitigation pathways.

Kikstra is currently a PhD candidate at Imperial College London. The title of his thesis is "Safe and Social Living: the individual operating space in the context of Climate Change". He was awarded an MSc degree (2019) in Climate Change from University College London, UK, and holds a BSc degree (2018) in Technology, Liberal Arts, and Sciences from the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His theses were interdisciplinary, with focuses on integrating temperature variability effects into the cost-benefit PAGE2020 climate-economy model, and performing a socio-technical assessment of local climate policy ambitions.

In addition to the above, he participates in efforts to consistently assess the climate implications of emission scenario pathways modeled by integrated assessment models for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and works on assessing the adverse side effects and co-benefits of ambitious climate mitigation.


Last update: 23 DEC 2021

Kikstra, J. , Pelz, S. , & Pachauri, S. (2022). Eliminating multidimensional poverty by providing decent living standards for all. Science-Policy Brief for the Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs, May 2022. UN DESA

European Commission, (2021). Climate Action in the Post-COVID-19 world: Insights from EU-funded projects on how to build forward better. pp. 27-32 Brussels: European Commission. ISBN 978-92-76-40952-6 10.2777/02755.

Kikstra, J. , Vinca, A. , Lovat, F. , Boza-Kiss, B. , van Ruijven, B. , Wilson, C. , Rogelj, J. , Zakeri, B. , Fricko, O. , & Riahi, K. (2021). Climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19-related energy demand changes. Nature Energy 6, 1114-1123. 10.1038/s41560-021-00904-8.

Kikstra, J. , Vinca, A. , Lovat, F. , Boza-Kiss, B. , van Ruijven, B. , Wilson, C. , Rogelj, J. , Zakeri, B. , Fricko, O. , & Riahi, K. (2021). Data for climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19 related energy demand changes. 10.5281/zenodo.5211168.

Kikstra, J.S. , Waidelich, P., Rising, J., Yumashev, D., Hope, C., & Brierley, C.M. (2021). The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability. Environmental Research Letters 16 (9), 094037. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1d0b.

Kikstra, J. , Mastrucci, A. , Min, J. , Riahi, K. , & Rao, N.D. (2021). Decent living gaps and energy needs around the world. Environmental Research Letters 16 (9), 095006. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1c27.

Huppmann, D. , Gidden, M. , Nicholls, Z., Hörsch, J., Lamboll, R., Kishimoto, P. , Burandt, T., Fricko, O. , Byers, E. , Kikstra, J. , Brinkerink, M., Budzinski, M., Maczek, F., Zwickl-Bernhard, S., Welder, L., Álvarez Quispe, E.F., & Smith, C. (2021). pyam: Analysis and visualisation of integrated assessment and macro-energy scenarios. Open Research Europe 1, e74. 10.12688/openreseurope.13633.1.

Kikstra, J. , Vinca, A. , Lovat, F. , Boza-Kiss, B. , van Ruijven, B. , Wilson, C., Rogelj, J., Zakeri, B. , Fricko, O. , & Riahi, K. (2021). COVID-19 impacts on energy demand can help reduce long-term mitigation challenge. Nature Portfolio 10.21203/rs.3.rs-155224/v1. (Submitted)

Lamboll, R.D., Nicholls, Z.R.J., Kikstra, J. , Meinshausen, M., & Rogelj, J. (2020). Silicone v1.0.0: an open-source Python package for inferring missing emissions data for climate change research. Geoscientific Model Development 13 (11), 5259-5275. 10.5194/gmd-13-5259-2020.

Kikstra, J. , Waidelich, P., Rising, J., Yumashev, D., Hope, C., & Brierley, C. (2020). Climate-economy feedbacks, temperature variability, and the social cost of carbon. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13230. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, 4-8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.

Krey, V. , Havlik, P. , Kishimoto, P. , Fricko, O. , Zilliacus, J., Gidden, M. , Strubegger, M., Kartasasmita, G., Ermolieva, T., Forsell, N., Guo, F. , Gusti, M., Huppmann, D. , Johnson, N., Kikstra, J. , Kindermann, G. , Kolp, P., Lovat, F. , McCollum, D., Min, J. , Pachauri, S. , Parkinson, S. , Rao, S., Rogelj, J. , Unlu, G. , Valin, H. , Wagner, P., Zakeri, B. , Obersteiner, M. , & Riahi, K. (2020). MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM Documentation - 2020 release. IIASA