02/12/2025 - PhD student shares her experiences of overwintering in Antarctica during POLARSTUNDE seminar series

13/02/2025 – A new National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment outlines the risks to Germany’s national security resulting from climate change through ...

11.02.2025 – Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for ...

04/02/2025 – Gunnar Luderer and Felix Creutzig from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) will contribute to the new IPCC Special Report as ...

20.01.2025 - Today, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. Statement by Ottmar Edenhofer and Johan Rockström, Directors ...

10.01.2025 - Greenhouse gas emissions in German agriculture could be significantly reduced in a socially equitable way through a climate fee on food, combined ...

The working group is interested in understanding how scientific information is compiled and made relevant for climate policy.

The working group investigates the dynamics of urbanization, transport systems, ground rents and alternative land use options.

This working group conducts research on low carbon development, focusing on developing and newly-industrializing economies.

09.12.2024 – Bundling climate expertise from the natural sciences to policy advice: at the beginning of 2025, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...