One World – One Environment – One Network
New research shows that the growing environmental and material footprints of consumption and production could prevent the world from achieving several of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability usually delivers knock-on benefits that make...
Overall carbon emissions would be reduced if carbon pricing is announced in a strong, clear and credible manner, according to a new study. These findings overturn the assumption that carbon reduction policies could in...
By the end of the century, up to 152,000 Europeans could die every year as a result of weather extremes, finds a new study. Extreme heat waves will become unavoidable if greenhouse gas emissions...
Former UN climate head Christiana Figueres has penned a letter together with other climate experts warning that ‘high-speed’ and immediate action must be taken if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change. 2020...
Growing plants to store carbon from the atmosphere will not offset unmitigated emissions from fossil fuel burning, a new study shows. At best it could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cuts....
Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have concluded that economic growth will not be able to counterbalance the rising costs of climate change damages such as hurricanes. More than 50 per...
Climate change affects not only the environment – it also threatens to destabilise globally networked production and supply processes. These are the findings of a recent study conducted by German and American researchers. In...
A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows that reducing food waste could help mitigate climate change. Agriculture accounts for around 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Around...
On a school field trip to Potsdam’s Telegraph Hill, Alice runs after a white rabbit – and falls into a hole, sliding down the ventilation shaft of a climate research institute’s supercomputer. From here...
Farmers could produce more food with the same amount of water by optimising rain use and irrigation, according a new study. The findings could substantially reduce hunger in the face of population growth and...
The odds are next to impossible that human-made climate change has nothing to do with the recent spate of record warm years. 13 of the 15 warmest years ever measured have occurred between 2000...
Human-made climate change is exerting such geological force that it is delaying the onset of the next age, according to scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The study, which was...
Pricing CO2 could help to end the deadlock of international climate policy, reports Mareike Schodder of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Finance ministers around the world would have reason enough to...
The huge West Antarctic ice sheet would collapse completely if the comparatively small Amundsen Basin is destabilized, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research find. A full discharge of ice into the...
The comparatively small Amundsen Basin plays a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of the huge, so-called eternal ice of the West Antarctic ice sheet. If destabilised, the entire West Antarctica ice masses could...
Major economies have to act as forerunners when it comes to limiting climate change. If the US or EU were to double their emissions reductions targets, then the world might still be able to...
Ocean warming caused by climate change is causing the Antarctic Filchner-Ronne shelf to melt. The more ice that melts, the more it flows into the ocean and the more it contributes to global sea-level...
Burning all of the world’s currently available fossil fuel resources would result in the complete melt of the Antarctic ice sheet — and lead to a rise in sea levels of more than 50...
Extreme weather events such as heat waves and droughts but also longer cold periods will occur more frequently in the future, scientists warned at a conference in Paris. They want world leaders at the...
Ice discharge from Antarctica could raise sea levels faster than previously thought, a new study shows. The so-called ice continent could become the largest contributor to global sea level rise. An international team of...
