04/29/2021 - In a ruling today, the Federal Constitutional Court obliged the German government to define more precisely the reduction targets for greenhouse ...

04/27/2021 - Ambitious climate policies could help to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries. This is the result of a new study by scientists of the ...

04/27/2021 - Tightening the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) in line with the EU Green Deal would dramatically speed up the decarbonization of Europe's ...

04/27/2021 - According to a new list published by Reuters, 8 of the top 10 German climate researchers are based at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ...

The Working Group "Network- and machine-learning-based prediction of extreme events" focuses on the application and development of modern techniques from ...

04/24/2021 - In the past week, at the invitation of US-President Joe Biden, heads of states from 40 countries as well as scientists and civil society actors ...

04/23/2021 – A preview of the feature documentary “Breaking boundaries: The science of our planet” that follows the scientific journey of PIK Director Johan ...

How do we – individually and as a society – respond to a changing climatic environment and extreme weather events?

04/22/2021 – On Girls' Day - 'Future Prospects for Girls' this year, schoolgirls were once again given an insight into the work at the Potsdam Institute for ...

This working group focuses on the numerical analysis of global economic impacts, and the unique model of loss-propagation in a global supply network - ...