What can we do to manage the Global Commons, such as atmosphere and oceans, within safe Planetary Boundaries? Overuse of the Global Commons by some puts their future availability for all at risk. This calls for innovative management approaches, like pricing schemes, that take into account a number of trade-offs. Namely, transgressing the Planetary Boundaries – including climate, but also biodiversity and biogeochemical flows - must be avoided to ensure a safe operating space for humanity. This challenge is interlinked with the one represented by the Tipping Elements – critical parts of the Earth system that are at risk of changing irreversibly if pushed too far, for instance the Amazon rainforest. The complex concepts of the Global Commons and the Planetary Boundaries build the underlying framework for PIK research.
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Planetary boundaries update: freshwater boundary exceeds safe limits
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Amazon rainforest is losing resilience: new evidence from satellite data analysis
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Potsdam and Exeter agree 'tipping points' partnership
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Tipping elements can destabilize each other, leading to climate domino effects
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Parts of Greenland may be on the verge of tipping: new early-warning signals detected
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“Planetary Boundary Simulator”: New initiative aims to quantify the interactions between key components of the Earth system
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Top 10 insights in climate science in 2020
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PIK at the Chaos Communication Congress rC3
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Head of Research Department
Nonlinear Data Analysis
Sustainable Development
Ecosystems
LPJmL
Climate Policy
Atmosphere
CO2 Removal
Global Commons
Planetary Boundaries
Policy advice
Biodiversity
Tipping Elements
POEM
Germany
1.5/2°C limit
RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Land Use
copan:CORE
Global
Europe
Transfer (Knowledge & Technology)


Head of Research Department

Working Group Leader
Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist


Senior Scientist
Working Group Leader
Working Group Leader

Deputy Head of Research Department




Deputy Head of Research Department

Deputy Head of Research Department

FutureLab Leader
Working Group Leader
Working Group Leader
Agent-based Models
Decarbonization
Extremes
Planetary Boundaries
Machine Learning
Global
Paleoclimate
RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Tipping Elements
Complex Networks
Security & Migration
POEM
Open Source Software
Ice
FutureLab - Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene
copan:CORE
PISM-PIK
Nonlinear Dynamics
Sustainable Development
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Postdoctoral Researcher
