The report by PIK is a snapshot of the latest climate science prepared for the World Bank. The world is barreling down a path to heat up by four degrees at the ...

PIK produced a report commissioned by World Bank Group to help understand the science and the potential impact on good economic development of a 4C increase. A ...

PIK Director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber says "if we venture far beyond the two degrees guardrail, toward the four degrees line, the risk of crossing tipping ...

11/16/2012 - Earth’s ecosystems provide benefits like food or drinking water that are of crucial importance for the well-being of humankind. But although ...

11/15/2012 - The first World Climate Impacts Conference, IMPACTS WORLD 2013, will be held next year in Potsdam, Germany. "Our climate future will be largely ...

11/12/2012 - From thick snow flurry in snow-covered villages to the white rooftops of Paris – the Arp Museum in Remagen, Rhineland-Palatinate, is currently ...

11/09/2012 - The role of climate change in the development and disintegration of classic Maya civilization, ranging from AD 300 to 1000, has been controversial ...

10/26/2012 - The worldwide highly recognized Swedish writer Lars Gustafsson is the new Artist in Residence at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...