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"This decision marks the end of the American century" - PIK and the Trump effect
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06/09/2017 - Last week US President Donald Trump has announced that he will leave the Paris climate agreement. This step not only triggered a wave of ...
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Tiny ice losses at Antarctica’s fringes can accelerate ice loss far away
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12/12/2017 - A thinning of small areas of floating ice at Antarctica’s coast can accelerate the movement of ice grounded on rocks hundreds of kilometers away, ...
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"Transformation now": Earth League meets in Potsdam
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01/23/2017 - Some of the most distinguished international climate experts are gathering in Potsdam this week for a symposium of the Earth League, a ...
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Transformation to wind and solar could be achieved with low indirect greenhouse gas emissions
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12/08/2017 - Different low carbon technologies from wind or solar energy to fossil carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) differ greatly when it comes to ...
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UNEP Emissions Gap Report published
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27/11/2018 - The UN Environment Programme UNEP published its 'Emissions Gap Report' in Paris. This comes only days before the start of the UN climate summit ...
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Unprecedented number of briefings in run-up of climate summit
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11/16/2015 - In the run-up of the much anticipated UN climate summit in Paris, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are ...
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US Government Accountability Office seeks exchange with climate scientists
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02/23/2015 - The Government Accountability Office of the US Congress (GAO) considers climate change impacts such as floodings or droughts to be a financial ...
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Wealth inequality: closing the gap by taxing land and bequests
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22/03/2018 - To reduce wealth inequality without diminishing the economic performance of a country, a policy package of bequest taxes and land value taxes ...
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What Counts for Our Climate: Carbon Budgets Untangled
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18/07/2019 - The more CO2 we emit from burning coal and oil and gas, the more we heat our climate – this sounds simple, and it is. Different analyses have come ...
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Why Climate Policy matters for the G20 finance ministers’ agenda
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06/30/2017 - In order to stay below the 2 °C guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers’ agenda. ...
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