02/18/2022 - Today, the Science Platform on Climate Protection' delivered its first annual report to the German government. Sabine Schlacke, Director of the ...

An new study highlights the innovation gap, and the need for regulation. It was commissioned by the German government's Science Platform Climate Protection.

01/12/2022 - Economic growth goes down when the number of wet days and days with extreme rainfall go up, a team of Potsdam scientists finds. Rich countries are ...

After eight years, the IPCC's next major review of climate policy is now taking shape. Two group leaders from our institute are coordinating chapters on ...

A new episode of the podcast "Sustain Ability. The Potsdam Dialogues" is out. From cauliflower to climate change: Chef Megha Kohli from New Delhi, India, and ...

There are already approaches for Corona – soon also for climate policy? An article in the top journal "Nature" describes the road to a new level of research ...

12/07/2021 - The Alliance of Science Organisations has criticised the BILD newspaper for the way it reports on individual researchers who are contributing ...

12/03/2021 - To highlight the inclusion of people with disabilities, the research institutions on Potsdam's Telegrafenberg have jointly hoisted a purple flag ...

12/03/2021 - The Director Emeritus of the Potsdam Institute, Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber, was honoured, among other things, for his enormous influence on ...

12/02/2021 - PIK scientist Björn Sörgel has received the 2021 Postdoc Award of the State of Brandenburg in the category Humanities and Social Sciences. The ...