Publications

Publications are one of PIKs most important outputs. On this page you will find our latest work and further information
Best, Frank, Pahle, Michael, Sultani, Darius, Günther, Claudia, Herten, Malte, Richstein, Jörn, Edenhofer, Ottmar (2026): A Safety Valve for the EU ETS endgame: Containing Prices through Carbon Dioxide Removal - Ariadne-Dossier
Best, Frank, Pahle, Michael, Sultani, Darius, Günther, Claudia, Herten, Malte, Richstein, Jörn, Edenhofer, Ottmar (2026): Ein Sicherheitsventil für die Endphase des EU-Emissionshandelssystems: Preisstabilisierung durch die Entfernung von Kohlendioxid - Ariadne-Dossier Zusammenfassung
Rockström, Johan, Martin, Maria A., Ganopolski, Andrey, Donges, Jonathan Friedemann, Feulner, Georg, Marwan, Norbert, Rahmstorf, Stefan (2026): We Are in the Anthropocene—Now What? - Earth's Future
Arndt, Konstantin, Berrill, Peter, Fuss, Sabine: Assessing the social acceptability of sufficiency measures in the residential sector - Journal of Industrial Ecology
Wunderling, Nico, Sakschewski, Boris, Rockström, Johan, Flores, Bernardo M., Hirota, Marina, Staal, Arie (2026): Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold - Nature
Kaandorp, Chelsea, Wang-Erlandsson, Lan, Hattle, Andrew, Folke, Carl, Gelvez-Gomez, Francisco, Rocha, Juan, Hartman Davies, Oscar, Daily, Gretchen, Donges, Jonathan Friedemann, Flores-Santana, Cynthia, Galbraith, Eric, Goldin, Simon, Jobbágy, Esteban, Jørgensen, Peter Søgaard, König, Ariane, Lambin, Eric F., van der Leeuw, Sander, Milo, Ron, Ningrum, Dianty, Nyström, Magnus, Reyers, Belinda, Schill, Caroline, Senneby, Jakob, Taniguchi, Makoto, Österblom, Henrik: Opportunities to foreground human embeddedness in the Anthropocene biosphere - Cell Reports Sustainability
Bohnet, Marc-Philipp, Fliegel, Philip, Schoenauer, Anne, van Mierlo, Cosima, Zioga, Maria, Hagen, Achim (2026): Integrating political economy and financial markets in qualitative scenario analysis to elicit EU decarbonization pathways - Earth System Governance
Mannone, Maria, Anand, Mahathi, Fazio, Peppino, Swikir, Abdalla (2026): Density matrix-based dynamics for quantum robotic swarms - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Kriit, Hedi K., Chen-Xu, José, Semenza, Jan C., Heiliger, Hannah, Markandya, Anil, Dasandi, Niheer, Jankin, Slava, van Daalen, Kim R., Achebak, Hicham, Alari, Anna, Alcayna, Tilly, Ball, Emily, Ballester, Joan, Bechara, Hannah, Callaghan, Max, van Cauwenberghe, Monique, Charnley, Gina E. C., Courtenay, Orin, Cirach, Marta, Garcia-Corral, Paulina, Cross, Troy J., Dasgupta, Shouro, Dickson, Zachary P., Eckelman, Matthew J., Erfort, Cornelius, Fransson, Peter, Farooq, Zia, Gasparyan, Olga, Hamilton, Ian, Hesselman, Marlies, Hänninen, Risto, Hsu, Shih-Che, Janoš, Tomáš, Jatkar, Harshavardhan, Jay, Ollie, Kennard, Harry, Khanna, Kajal, Kiesewetter, Gregor, Lowe, Rachel, Lührsen, Daniela, Maia, Carla, Martinez-Urtaza, Jaime, Minx, Jan C., Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark, Palamarchuk, Julia, San José Plana, Adria, Repke, Tim, Roa-Contreras, Jorge A., Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z., Scamman, Daniel, Shartova, Natalia, Sherman, Jodi D., Sirotkina, Elena, Singh, Pratik, Sofiev, Mikhail, Springmann, Marco, Stucki, Lara, Tartarini, Federico, Triñanes, Joaquin, Walawender, Maria, Romanello, Marina, Antó, Josep M., Nilsson, Maria, Tonne, Cathryn, Rocklöv, Joacim (2026): The 2026 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: narrowing window for decisive health action - The Lancet Public Health
Rostami, Masoud, Fallah, Bijan H., Fazel-Rastgar, Farahnaz, Hamidi, Mehdi, Hariri, Saeed, Guo, Junxin, Fu, Li-Yun: Towards a theoretical understanding of Arctic amplification dynamics - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Dahlmann, Heindriken, Andersen, Lauren, Schaphoff, Sibyll, Stenzel, Fabian, Braun, Johanna, Müller, Christoph, Gerten, Dieter (2026): Shifting water scarcities: Irrigation alleviates agricultural green water deficits while increasing blue water scarcity - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Bez, Charlotte Sophia, Klug, Thomas W., Raederscheidt, Giacomo, Steckel, Jan Christoph: Consensus or cheap talk? The discursive politics of South Africa’s just energy transition - Environmental Politics
Bachorz, Clara, Dürrwächter, Jakob, Gong, Chen Chris, Odenweller, Adrian, Pehl, Michaja, Schreyer, Felix, Verpoort, Philipp, Luderer, Gunnar, Ueckerdt, Falko: Averting the steel carbon lock-in through strategic green investments - Nature Climate Change
Bachorz, Clara, Dürrwächter, Jakob, Gong, Chen Chris, Odenweller, Adrian, Pehl, Michaja, Schreyer, Felix, Verpoort, Philipp, Luderer, Gunnar, Ueckerdt, Falko: The window to avoid locking in decades of steel emissions is closing fast [Policy Brief] - Nature Climate Change
Paudel, Dilli, Kallenberg, Michiel, Ofori-Ampofo, Stella, Baja, Hikmy, van Bree, Ron, Potze, Aike, Poudel, Pratishtha, Saleh, Abdelrahman, Anderson, Weston, von Bloh, Malte, Castellano, Andres, Ennaji, Oumnia, Hamed, Raed, Laudien, Rahel, Lee, Donghoon, Luna, Inti, Meroni, Michele, Mumo Mutuku, Janet, Mkuhlani, Siyabusa, Richetti, Jonathan, Ruane, Alex C., Sahajpal, Ritvik, Shai, Guanyuan, Sitokonstantinou, Vasileios, de Souza Nóia Júnior, Rogério, Srivastava, Amit Kumar, Strong, Robert, Sweet, Lily-belle, Vojnovic, Petar, Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.: CY-Bench: A comprehensive benchmark dataset for sub-national crop yield forecasting - Earth System Science Data
Moses, William S., Cheng, Gong, Churavy, Valentin, Gelbrecht, Maximilian, Klöwer, Milan, Kump, Joseph, Morlighem, Mathieu, Williamson, Sarah, Apte, Dhruv, Berg, Paul, Giordano, Mosè, Hill, Christopher, Loose, Nora, Montoison, Alexis, Narayanan, Sri Hari Krishna, Pal, Avik, Schanen, Michel, Silvestri, Simone, Wagner, Greg, Heimbach, Patrick (2026): DJ4Earth: Differentiable, and Performance-Portable Earth System Modeling via Program Transformations - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Schmaus, Alexander, Marwan, Norbert, Molkenthin, Nora: Node-weighted recurrence analysis for path dynamics on networks - European Physical Journal - Special Topics
Pereira, Laura M., Gibson, Matthew Ford, Abrams, Jesse F., Brutschin, Elina, Cardenas, Juan Camilo, Cheung, William W.L., Claudet, Joachim, Cornell, Sarah E., Daioglou, Vassilis, Durán, América Paz, Gomez-Baggethun, Erik, Harrison, Paula A., Hebden, Sophie, Johnson, Justin A., Jouffray, Jean-Baptiste, Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Sylvia, Keys, Patrick W., Kim, HyeJin, Kok, Marcel T.J., Lundquist, Carolyn J., Lenton, Timothy M., Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, McElwee, Pamela, Munera-Roldan, Claudia, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Norström, Albert V., Nyasulu, Maganizo K., Peterson, Garry D., Pinho, Patricia, Popp, Alexander, Riahi, Keywan, Sumaila, U. Rashid, Tobian, Arne, Winkelmann, Ricarda, Wunderling, Nico, van Vuuren, Detlef, Vervoort, Joost, Zimm, Caroline (2026): Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios - One Earth
Teran, Jose P, Schlemm, Annika, Nyamweya, Chrispine Sangara, Nkwasa, Albert, Chawanda, Celray J, Frieler, Katja, Nyolei, Douglas, van Griensven, Ann: Stakeholder-informed mapping of climate change impacts on the Water-Energy-Food-Environment nexus in the Lake Victoria basin - Environmental Research: Water
Virkki, Vili, Andersen, Lauren, te Wierik, Sofie, Gerten, Dieter, Porkka, Miina: Regionally divergent drivers behind transgressions of the freshwater change planetary boundary - Nature Communications
Piggott, Thomas, Saadat, Pakeezah, Herrmann, Alina, Tetelbom Stein, Airton, Darzi, Andrea J., Haines, Andy, Bognanni, Antonio, Sousa-Pinto, Bernardo, Michels, Charlotte, Akl, Elie A., Poluzzi, Elisabetta, Senerth, Emily, Madrid, Eva, Barbic, Franca, de’Donato, Francesca, Nonino, Francesco, Vist, Gunn Elisabeth, Neumann, Ignacio, Bracchiglione, Javier, Bousquet, Jean, Meerpohl, Joerg J., Antó, Josep M., Scahill, Karolina A., Qiu, Kavin, Miersch, Klaas, Saif-Ur-Rahman, KM, Vasanthan Thinagaran, Lenny, Benton, Lorna, Schwingshackl, Lukas, Siedler, Madelin R., Bala, Malgorzata M., Metzendorf, Maria-Inti, Aloosh, Mehdi, Cinquini, Michela, Cumpston, Miranda, Skoetz, Nicole, Oloyede, Oyekola, Alonso-Coello, Pablo, Dahm, Philipp, Wang, Qi, Vieira, Rafael José, Morgan, Rebecca L., Murthy, Srinivas, Hofstede, Stefanie, Laot-Cabon, Sylvie, Thomander, Tuuli, Siebert, Uwe, Leontiadis, Grigorios I., Schünemann, Holger: Integrating Planetary Health in Health Guidelines (GRADE Guidance 46) - Annals of Internal Medicine
Lambrecht, Nathalie, Sparling, Thalia M., Mayer, Axel, Waid, Jillian Lee, Wendt, Amanda, Ali, Masum, Gabrysch, Sabine (2026): Impact pathways of a homestead food production programme on women’s dietary diversity in Bangladesh - Nature Food
Nikas, Alexandros, Sampedro, Jon, Khourdajie, Alaa Al, Arto, Iñaki, Balderrama, Sergio, Boasson, Elin Lerum, Cartwright, Anton, Feijoo, Felipe, Fragkos, Panagiotis, Frilingou, Natasha, García-Muros, Xaquin, Herbig, Victoria, Karamaneas, Anastasios, Koasidis, Konstantinos, Ma, Lin, Mittal, Shivika, Moleskis, Melina, Nikolakakis, Thomas, Pathak, Minal, Peters, Glen P., Platias, Charalampos, Pietzcker, Robert C., Raihan, Selim, Rodés-Bachs, Clàudia, Rogelj, Joeri, Śniegocki, Aleksander, Sognnæs, Ida, Solomou, Pantelis, Spatharidou, Dimitra, Taliotis, Constantinos, Tigka, Christina, Tomás, Manuel, Trachanas, Georgios P., Tsipouridis, Ioannis, van de Ven, Dirk-Jan, Vienni-Baptista, Bianca, Zachariadis, Theodoros, Arnokourou, Athanasia, Makri, Evi, Gambhir, Ajay, Kratena, Kurt, Xexakis, Georgios: The challenge with climate-energy-economy models in constructing fair and equitable climate futures - Futures
Mannone, Maria, Marwan, Norbert: Quantum-inspired density-matrix recurrence analysis of brain time series - European Physical Journal - Special Topics
Zurbriggen, Tatjana, Brazzola, Nicoletta, Odenweller, Adrian, Ueckerdt, Falko, Rogelj, Joeri: Short-term action is key for gigaton-scale Direct Air Capture by 2050 - Nature Communications
Baum, Fabian, van Baal, Katharina, Augustin, Jobst, van de Sand, Heike, Lorenz-Dant, Klara, Lindemann, Christina, Baltruks, Dorothea, Büker, Christa, Deutschbein, Johannes, Geffert, Karin, Gothe, Holger, Herrmann, Alina, Hornberg, Claudia, Konnopka, Claudia, Kuehne, Anna, Luhmann, Esther, Metzendorf, Maria-Inti, Meyer, Ingo, Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas, Schmitt, Jochen, Steinmann, Miriam, Thürmann, Petra, Wolf, Jennyfer, Ziech, Patrick, Ziegler, Annika, Härter, Martin, Panchyrz, Ivonne: Perspectives, Action Strategies, and Approaches for Climate-Resilient and Low-Greenhouse-Gas Healthcare - Das Gesundheitswesen