From Gulf Stream System slowdown to carbon budgets and space food for cows: PIK scientists explain their latest research results.

04 /29/2021 - Nobel laureates and academics participating in the scientific sessions of the first Nobel Prize Summit have issued a statement calling for urgent ...

04/29/2021 - In a ruling today, the Federal Constitutional Court obliged the German government to define more precisely the reduction targets for greenhouse ...

04/27/2021 - Ambitious climate policies could help to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries. This is the result of a new study by scientists of the ...

04/27/2021 - Tightening the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) in line with the EU Green Deal would dramatically speed up the decarbonization of Europe's ...

04/27/2021 - According to a new list published by Reuters, 8 of the top 10 German climate researchers are based at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ...

This prestigious association promotes excellence in science and technology as a driver for human wellbeing. It has 700 members world-wide, and more than 30 ...

04/24/2021 - In the past week, at the invitation of US-President Joe Biden, heads of states from 40 countries as well as scientists and civil society actors ...

04/23/2021 – A preview of the feature documentary “Breaking boundaries: The science of our planet” that follows the scientific journey of PIK Director Johan ...

How do we – individually and as a society – respond to a changing climatic environment? What are welfare-improving policy responses on the societal transition?