01.07.2023 - Wolfgang Lucht has been reappointed to the German Advisory Council on the Environment (Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen, SRU). The Head of the ...

25.06.2024 - The prestigious Piers Sellers Prize was awarded to Leonie Wenz. As one of two winners, the deputy head of Complexity Science at the Potsdam ...

05.06.2024 - Katja Frieler, head of the “Transformation Pathways” research department and the “Pathway-specific climate risks” division at the Potsdam ...

Second update of the “Indicators of Global Climate Change” research initiative with contributions from MCC. The 1.5-degree Celsius threshold is all but ...

New State of CDR report shows the need for a much stronger set of policies. Joint press release of MCC, SWP, IIASA, University of Oxford and University of ...

MCC Director Ottmar Edenhofer: “The conflict of beliefs over the core instrument of climate policy can be resolved with facts.” Calculation concept is also ...

04.05.2024 - Under the motto "Research. Discover. Join in.", the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), together with the other Telegrafenberg ...

Taking its cue from the UN Emissions Gap Report. Countries’ current plans to extract CO2 from the atmosphere are off-track to comply with the 1.5-degree limit.

26.04.2024 - Whereas global biodiversity has declined between 2 and 11 percent during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, climate change could ...

25.04.2024 - More than 15,000 options, around 135,000 spots available across Germany, more schoolgirls than ever before: this year's Girls' Day has set new ...