From natural science to social science, from risks to solutions, from identifying Planetary Boundaries to managing Global Commons: The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is advancing the frontier of integrated research for global sustainability, and for a safe and just climate future. A member of the Leibniz Association, the institute is based in Potsdam, Brandenburg and connected with the global scientific community. Drawing on excellent research, PIK provides relevant scientific advice for policy decision-making. The institute’s international staff of about 480 is led by a committed interdisciplinary team of Directors. This is science – for a safe tomorrow.
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EAT-Lancet report: food systems breach planetary boundaries, transformation can deliver health and equity
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Four major Earth system components are losing stability
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Jan Steckel: professorship in Political Economy at TU Munich
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Johan Rockström addresses heads of state during United Nations General Assembly: “failure is not inevitable, it is a choice”
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In Brussels, PIK explains social flanking of the new emissions trading system
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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone
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How climate policy can be made socially just and enforceable worldwide
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Questions and answers about Nature study on economic damages
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How measures to protect the environment and reduce the rich–poor divide interact
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PIK in the Media
Oct 05, 2025
· South China Morning Post (Online-Medien)
‘Planetary health diet’ could stop 15 million deaths a year, climate disaster
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Oct 03, 2025
· The Independent (Online-Medien)
Changing how people eat could save 15 million lives a year, landmark study finds
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Oct 03, 2025
· Forbes (Online-Medien)
Transforming Food Systems Could Help Tackle Global Warming, Study Finds
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Oct 03, 2025
· Deutschlandfunk (Online-Medien)
EAT-Lancet-Kommission - Ernährungsweise trägt weiterhin stark zur Klimakrise bei
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Oct 03, 2025
· Le Soir (Online-Medien)
Plus de céréales, moins de viande… Le « régime de santé planétaire » épargnerait quinze millions de...
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