README.md

Script for Kikstra et al. 2021, Nature Energy, Climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19 related energy demand changes

This repository contains a script for the main text figures plus some supplementary figures in the article Kikstra et al 2021 Nat. Energy. DOI: https://10.1038/s41560-021-00904-8

In order to reproduce the figures, one needs to download the scenario data and additional data from the data repository:

Kikstra, J.S.. Data for Kikstra et al. 2021, Nature Energy, Climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19 related energy demand changes, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5211169 (2021).

Interactive Scenario Explorer

The most accessible way of exploring the scenario data behind this article would be to go to https://data.ece.iiasa.ac.at/engage/#/workspaces/60. This goes to a web tool hosted by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) provides access to a database of these and more variables of interest, defined for each scenario on the detail of MESSAGE regions, with a few example workspaces available within the ENGAGE Scenario Explorer. The Scenario Explorer is a versatile open access tool to browse, visualize and download data and results. Users can freely create a private workspace where customized plots can be saved and shared. For tutorials on how to use the Scenario Explorer, please visit https://software.ece.iiasa.ac.at/ixmp-server/tutorials.html.

The scenarios that were used for the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C warming (SR1.5) have been made available at https://data.ece.iiasa.ac.at/iamc-1.5c-explorer/.

Authors

• Jarmo S. Kikstra. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9405-1228
• Adriano Vinca. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3051-178X
• Francesco Lovat. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4331-980X
• Benigna Boza-Kiss. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4005-2481
• Bas van Ruijven. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1232-5892
• Charlie Wilson. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8164-3566
• Joeri Rogelj. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2056-9061
• Behnam Zakeri. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-2878
• Oliver Fricko. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6835-9883
• Keywan Riahi. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7193-3498

Correspondence: kikstra@iiasa.ac.at

Repository structure

• COVID_script.R # script for analysis and reproducing selected figures
• figures # folder for hosting figures when the script writes them out
• README.md # this file, explanation for the repository