2011 — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Chinese emissions trading system significant to green growth

Ottmar Edenhofer highlights China's efforts to build up an emission trading system, arguing that this can help climate change mitigation as well as the transformation towards a "green economy". Source: Xinhua News Agency (in China Daily), 12/19/2011

Durban, emission trading, technology policy - what's China's role?

Ottmar Edenhofer explores different scenarios for the UN Climate Summit in Durban and discusses the chances of emission trading systems as well as technology policy. All this with regard to China, as it is in an interview with the daily newspaper of the Chinese Ministry for Science and Technology. Source: Science and Technology Daily, 11/26/2011

Getting closer to our climate obligations: Australia’s legislation for change

Bill Hare praises Australia's new climate legislation, in an op-ed for the Australian-based internet platform The Conversation, as a first step towards a transition to a low carbon economy. He still sees a need for further actions to comply with the 2°-target. Source: The Conversation, 05.12.11

Nuclear plans threaten UK's part in renewables revolution, expert warns

Schellnhuber argues in an online Guardian article that the UK is not ready to participate in the 'third industrial revolution'. Source: The Guardian, 15.11.11

"Heating up tensions"

In the current edition of Nature Climate Change, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber argues in an article about links between climate change and conflicts that a temperature rise of 4° Celsius could lead to a worldwide struggle for survival. Source: Nature Climate Change, 09/25/11

Can game theory save the UN climate talks?

Jobst Heitzig's study about strategic behaviour in climate talks was quoted in the Guardian's Environment Blog. Source: The Guardian Environment Blog, 09/06/11

"Different views ensure IPCC balance"

In Nature Climate Change Ottmar Edenhofer discusses the accusation that the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) is biased by a conflict of interest. Source: Nature Climate Change, 07/17/2011

Energy groups emission call

In a story on fund managers that push for energy companies to take restrictions on emissions into account when they report oil, coal or gas reserves, the Financial Times refers to the PIK. Source: FT, 07/17/2011

Australian carbon tax "a first step"

Malte Meinshausen of PIK, working in Melbourne right now, has been interviewed by

"A carbon price is all important"

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has been interviewed by the leading Australian TV-Talkshow Lateline on climate change and climate policy. Source: ABC, 07/12/2011

"The body of evidence"

The Australian newspaper The Age on Hans Joachim Schellnhuber's public lecture at the "Four degrees or more?" conference in Melbourne. Source: The Age, 07/13/2011

A pioneer role for Australia

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber published an op-ed in two leading Australian newspapers, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. Source: SMH, 07/12/2011

Sea level rise in two millenia

Stefan Rahmstorf of PIK gets quoted in a story on sea levels rising faster than ever before in 2000 years. Source: The Hindu, 06/23/2011

Emission transfer

Also the taz newspaper takes up the study about carbon dioxide emission transfer drafted by Ottmar Edenhofer et al. Source: taz, 06/16/11.

"Rahmstorf is a scientist to the core"

The Badische Zeitung takes a portrait of PiK scientist Stefan Rahmstorf. Source: Badische Zeitung, 06/10/11.

"A 'Big Thumbs Up' for Renewable Energy"

“Under no circumstances can we afford to omit or neglect renewables,” Ottmar Edenhofer said in The New York Times. Source: The New York Times, 06/03/11.

"Germany cannot do all this on its own"

Ottmar Edenhofer on nuclear power and renewables in The Economist. Source: The Economist, 06/02/11.

Stockholm Memorandum on global sustainability

The Nobel Laureates Symposium on Global Sustainability, initiated by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber in recent years, was taken up by, for instance, The Hindu. Close to 20 Nobel laureates debated with leading sustainability researchers. Source: The Hindu, 05/18/11.

Big growth in renewable energy

The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), that Ottmar Edenhofer, chairman of the IPCC's working group on mitigation, and his team worked on incredibly hard for many months, has been covered by literally hundreds of media worldwide, such as Nature. Source: Nature News, 05/11/11.

More storms and floods

Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe presented a major study on future weather extremes linked to climate change, commissioned by the German Insurance Association. The big press agencies such as Reuters covered the study. Source: Reuters, 05/24/11.