17.02.2026 – The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, chaired by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research’s Director Ottmar ...

11.02.2026 – Gradually increasing the price of fossil fuels is considered a key element of effective climate policy – and yet it remains the subject of bitter ...

12.12.2025 – Today marks the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to keep global heating well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit it ...

22.11.2025 – In the past two weeks, around 50,000 people from around the world took part in the UN climate summit COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Key topics included ...

22.11.2025 - A new commentary led by Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), concludes that the world has missed ...

14.11.2025 - Scientists at the Planetary Science Pavilion at COP30 in Belém, including Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ...

14.11.2025 – For the eighth year in a row, scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are represented in the top 0.1 percent of ...

12.11.2025 - The world is likely to exceed 1.5°C of global warming within the next decade, yet science shows that returning below this threshold by the end of ...