On the DWD's Summer Report 2023: In the midst of climate change
08/30/2023 - The German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) has presented its 2023 summer report. PIK researcher Fred Hattermann comments: "This year's precipitation cannot compensate for the precipitation deficit that has accumulated over the past years."
Read More
From Australia back to Germany: PIK Alumna Katharina Waha appointed professor at University Augsburg
01/08/2023 - After 8 years abroad, in which she continued to work together with the 'Landuse and Resilience' Working Group at PIK as a guest researcher, Katharina Waha has accepted an appointment as 'Professor for Climate Resilience and Human-Made Ecosystems' at the newly created 'Centre for Climate Resilience' in Augsburg.
Read More
Empowering Himalayan Sustainability: Workshop Strengthens Teaching and Research on SDGs
16/08/2023 - The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand hosted a 3-day workshop titled "Strengthening Teaching and Research on Sustainable Development Goals: Curriculum Transfer and Capacity Building" from 13-16 August 2023. The workshop is a part of the ForHimSDG (Promoting Himalayan Development by Strengthening Teaching and Research on Sustainable Development Goals) project, lead by PIK in collaboration with the AIT and Kathmandu University and funded by DAAD.
Read More
Minister Svenja Schulze and PIK highlight the importance of increasing research on Loss and Damage
26/06/2023 - The second edition of the “Berlin Insights Series on Climate Change and Development”, jointly organised by the German Development Ministry (BMZ) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), gave a stage to the discussion on how science can support politics and practitioners in the response to the losses and damages caused by the climate crisis.
Read More
Uzbek Minister of Ecology Visits Potsdam Institute for Climate Research to Enhance German-Uzbek Collaboration
22/06/2023 Uzbekistan's Minister of Ecology, Natural Resources and Climate Change Mr. Aziz Abdukhakimov, led a delegation to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) to meet with scientist and hydrology experts. The visit aimed to strengthen German-Uzbek collaboration in science, higher education, and capacity building to address the pressing issue of climate change in Uzbekistan.
Read More
Women’s diet quality in India could be improved by forest foods
06/22/2023 - Wild foods from forests and common land play an important role in improving the quality of diets among Indian women, a new study finds. The harvest of wild, nutritious food, especially during June and July, is of vital importance to vulnerable women in India, where more than 80 percent are estimated to be micronutrient deficient and suffer from poor health.
Read More
Cross-sectoral PROCLIAS-ISIMIP workshop 2023 in Prague
14/06/2023 - Another successful cross-sectoral PROCLIAS/ ISIMIP workshop filled with plenary and parallel sessions on ISIMIP simulation results, data and protocols for climate impact simulations, IPCC representative key risks and cross-sectoral climate impacts took place, this time in Prague.
Read More
PIK expertise at "Leibniz in the Bundestag"
05/26/2023 - From hydrogen to the EU climate goals, from moorland protection to the animal welfare tax: researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) were represented across all research areas with numerous topics at "Leibniz in the Bundestag". With this political format, the Leibniz Association annually offers members of the German Bundestag one-on-one discussions with scientists.
Read More
Large-scale nature conservation efforts alone will not preserve benefits for our societies
05/16/2023 - The enlargement of protected areas and carbon price incentives for reforestation alone will not stop biodiversity decline and the ongoing loss of critical ecosystem functions, if they are not accompanied by measures that also target managed landscapes. A new study published in Nature Communications, led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), shows that even in scenarios with a high demand for land it is possible to maintain biodiversity-friendly landscapes, which also provide critical services such as pollination and healthy soils. The research demonstrates that land use is not a zero-sum game but that it matters where farmland is located in order to promote landscape diversity. With the right incentives, farmed landscapes could be managed in a way that enhances the numerous benefits nature offers to society and that support the biodiversity conservation targets of protected areas.
Read More
RD2@EGU 2023
24-27/04/2023 - The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly brings together geoscientists from all over the world, providing a forum for scientists to present and discuss their research with peers. This years General Assembly took place from 24 to 27 April 2023 and featured several contributions by scientists from the Climate Resilience Department at PIK.
Read More
High-level Pakistani delegation visit at PIK
05/12/2023 - A high-level Pakistani delegation, along with the GIZ Pakistan, visited the PIK research department Climate Resilience, to exchange ideas and approaches related to climate impacts and adaptation in the Pakistani context.
Read More
Sustainability conference of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture with Prof. Lotze-Campen
04/05/2023 - How can we transform our agriculture and food system and make it more sustainable? This was the central question at the sustainability conference in Kirchberg, Germany, organized by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). German minister of agriculture Cem Özdemir and vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans discussed the changes necessary on a national and EU-level with experts and young people.
Read More
CashEval Workshop in Ulaanbaatar
On April, 20th a dissemination workshop entitled "Living with climate risk in Mongolia" took place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Scientific insights on the vulnerability of herding households to extreme winter events (dzud) in Mongolia were shared with local and international stakeholders. Participants also explored to what extent policy instruments can help households respond and adapt to dzud. The focus was on index-based livestock insurance and forecast-based humanitarian assistance.
Read More
Congratulations Dr. Arumugam!
27/03/2023 - Ponraj Arumugam successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Geospatial crop yield modeling to support climate risk management" at the University of Kassel.
Read More
Sustainability beyond Sustainable Development Goals – ERC grant for Prajal Pradhan
02/24/2023 - For his proposal “Transformation towards long-term sustainability beyond Sustainable Development Goals” Prajal Pradhan, senior scientist at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) receives the highly prestigious HORIZON Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) amounting to 1,5 million Euro.
Read More
From forest resilience to power grids to loss and damage: PIK Research Days
02/22/2023 - Hot topics were presented in talks and discussed among scientists at the annual ‘Research Days’ of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Virtually all members of the institute gathered for the 2-day exchange, the first one which happened face-to-face after the online-only times of COVID pandemic. Once a year, the entire institute comes together to update one another on its findings, new methods and challenges – and to discuss new frontiers to be investigated.
Read More
Success on two fronts: RD2 congratulates Dr. Lisa Murken!
20/02/2023 - After years of excellent research and dedication, Lisa Murken was recently appointed co-lead of the working group 'Adaptation in Agricultural Systems'. On February 10th, she also successfully defended her dissertation on 'Land tenure in a changing climate' with outstanding results. A double reason for us to congratulate and celebrate with her!
Read More
FABLE: How to get food and land use systems on track
02/03/2023 - Sustainable futures for food and land use systems are only possible with coordinated, major efforts around the world in the next decade. This is what a team of researchers, including PIK, from 20 countries found by using FABLE (Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use and Energy) modeling tools. The results are now published in a Special Issue.
Read More
Berlin could produce much of its vegetables locally
01/27/2023 - Berlin could produce a surprisingly large proportion of its vegetable requirements itself if unused areas were used for this purpose, such as flat roofs, allotments, cemetery areas that are no longer in use, or even supermarket parking lots. Researchers have now calculated this. However, the use of this land is tied to many preconditions.
Read More
Climate, Development, Economics - Kati Krähnert is a Professor at RWI and Bochum University
01/20/2023 - From Potsdam's Telegrafenberg to the Ruhr - since January 1, 2023, Kati Krähnert is Professor of Climate Change and Development at the Faculty of Economics at Ruhr University Bochum. There she researches how the lives of people in the Global South are affected by climate change and how policies need to be designed if they are to improve household climate resilience. She was appointed jointly by the Ruhr University and RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research.
Read More
Smart nitrogen management can strongly reduce pollution
01/06/2023 - To increase food and feed supply, agriculture has used more and more industrial nitrogen fertilizers and manure. However, over half of these nitrogen inputs to croplands are currently lost to the environment, contributing to air pollution and its related diseases, water eutrophication, soil acidification, climate change, and biodiversity loss. Nitrogen pollution has become a global challenge and next crisis. An international team of researchers explored cost-effective nitrogen mitigation strategies for global croplands in a new study, now published in Nature.
Read More
New PIK Podcast: The bitter taste of loss & damage
12/16/2022 - What does coffee have to do with climate change & loss and damage? Koko Warner from the UNFCCC Secretariat and Christoph Gornott from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK dive into the loss & damage debate.
Read More
Europe's forests increasingly under pressure
12/12/2022 - European forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances, a new monitoring study shows - and climate change is likely exacerbating this, according to the results of an international team of scientists.
Read More
FutureLab side event during 10th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action
08/12/2022 - Svenja Fluhrer, Julian Röckert, Kati Krähnert, and Lukas Mogge from the FutureLab on "Inequality, Human Well-Being and Development" organized a side event entitled "Anticipatory Action Meets Evidence: Generating Scientific Evidence on the Effectiveness of a Forecast-Based Cash Transfer Program".
Read More
RD2 @ COP27
01/12/2022 - Several RD2 scientists were active at and around the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Sharm el-Sheikh either by attending the conference, hosting a side event or informing attendees and the world at large of the importance of climate action through other media channels.
Read More
Potsdam researchers amongst top 1% most cited worldwide
11/14/2022 - For the fifth year in a row, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are among the top 1 percent of the globally most scientifically influential authors. The renowned "Highly Cited" ranking is published once a year by Clarivate Analytics' science platform Web of Science. The ranking is based on the number of times researchers are cited in other academics' works - one of the most important indicators of scientific relevance. Twelve PIK researchers are listed, just like last year, including the institute's directors, and from all research departments.
Read More
Hermann Lotze-Campen appointed in two scientific committees
11/11/2022 - Professor Hermann Lotze-Campen was appointed to the SASSCAL (Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Managment) Scientific Advisory Council and re-appointed to the steering council of the German SDSN (Sustainable Development Solutions Network).
Read More
Green Central Asia workshops co-organised by RD2 scientists
24/10/2022 - 11/11/2022 - In a series of workshops and trainings, scientists from the Green Vision Central Asian project at PIK invite journalists, civil servants and other key stakeholders to discuss the information and data-flow on climate impacts in the region.
Read More
Dr. Amanda Wendt at GLOHRA Day 2022
15/10/2022 – Dr. Amanda Wendt, working group leader of the Climate Change and Health group at PIK, participated in a panel discussion during the annual symposium of the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA). Together with other representatives of GLOHRA research projects, she discussed ‘Community partnerships in global health research’.
Read More
Dynamic Forest Modeling research visit in Grenoble
19/10/2022 - Doctoral researcher Mats Mahnken, from the research group "Forest and Ecosystem Resilience" spent four weeks at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAe) with a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grant from the Cost Action Project 'PROCLIAS'.
Read More
