12/08/2020 - An international team of scientists, including PIK researchers, has identified the potential impacts emerging from food system technologies in ...

Social Metabolism & Impacts

The EU has asked the MCC and two other institutes to critically assess unconventional methods of climate protection. 9 million euro of funding for six years.

She coordinates joint learning on the German energy transition in the Ariadne project. Her doctoral thesis shows: decentralised electricity and heat supply can ...

Understanding the forces of inertia in order to overcome them: a study led by the MCC sharpens the sense of the "political economy of coal", drawing on India, ...

In this year of the coronavirus, the Director of the MCC is receiving attention on his economic expertise on climate policy and global commons as shown by a ...

09/22/2020 Turning the urgent challenge of adapting to climate change into an opportunity to make Europe resilient, climate-prepared and just – this is the aim ...

09/15/2020 – Facebook, a major global social media channel, starts a Climate Science Information Center featuring scientific contributions from the Potsdam ...

09/10/2020 - Researchers have analyzed data from deep-sea sediments in order to reconstruct Earth’s climate with an unprecedented temporal resolution. To ...

The worldwide booming demand for cars and energy-guzzling domestic appliances is in part a result of social norms: an intervention point for politics, as ...