02.12.2024 - Land degradation undermines biodiversity, accelerates climate impacts, and endangers agriculture, food security, and livelihoods all over the ...

28.11.2024 – The 2024 Leibniz Dissertation Award has been granted to Maximilian Kotz for his outstanding research on the economic costs of climate change, ...

25.11.2024 - The scientific Climate Council of the State of Brandenburg (WKB), chaired by Hermann Lotze-Campen from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ...

Statement by MCC Director Ottmar Edenhofer at the conclusion of the world climate conference. “It is now abundantly clear that we need additional negotiation ...

24.11.2024 – In the past two weeks, around 40,000 people from all over the world took part in the UN climate summit COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Key topics were ...

Differentiated climate money for buildings can defuse the controversial issue of “climate protection in the boiler room”. MCC now provides a scientific basis ...

20.11.2024 - For the seventh year in a row, scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are represented in the top 1 percent of the ...

20.11.2024 - Combining climate and nature risks in a unified model offers the financial sector a more accurate view of their combined economic and ...

11.11.2024 - Since the reduction of CO₂ emissions is too slow to limit global heating to 1.5°C, a great deal of CO2 must be removed from the atmosphere. ...

Joint proposal of PIK and KfW, with input from MCC Co-Chairs Sabine Fuss and Matthias Kalkuhl: rapid development of the market within emissions trading.