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11/14/2023 - Taxing land instead of capital could reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in societies, finds a new study from the Potsdam Institute for ...

06/19/2023 - Climate economist Ottmar Edenhofer has been appointed to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). The Director of the ...

06/23/2023 - The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC), established by the European Climate Law, recommends in a new report EU emission ...

12.12.2025 – Today marks the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to keep global heating well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit it ...

18.04.2024 - The digital ministers of the German federal states visited the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the other research ...

09.04.2025 – The CDU/CSU and SPD, which together received a majority in the German Bundestag elections at the end of February, today agreed on a draft ...

27/03/2025 - At the end of March, PIK Director Ottmar Edenhofer welcomed distinguished guests from Chile, Japan and Baden-Württemberg to the institute. ...

11/22/2023 - Reduced fossil fuel consumption due to the energy crisis, tentative positive signs in the expansion of renewable energy capacities, electric cars ...

06/12/2015 - When the much anticipated environmental encyclical will be launched on 18 June, John Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate ...

07/13/2018 - The coal commission established by Germany’s Federal Government is seeking input from, amongst others, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ...