26/02/2025 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to address critical sustainability risks and challenges for both people and the planet. To explore ...

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 ...

Combination of advanced methodologies for causal impact and welfare analysis with the power of big data and machine learning to improve public policy making on ...

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.