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Climate stabilization: Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions
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05/18/2017 - Growing plants and then storing the CO2 they have taken up from the atmosphere is no viable option to counteract unmitigated emissions from fossil ...
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Climate tipping points – too risky to bet against
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28/11/2019 - From the Greenland and West-Antarctic ice sheets to coral reefs or the Amazon rainforest – a number of critical elements in the Earth system could ...
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Close exchange with Japan
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07/11/2016 - During a visit to Japan, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber further deepened the collaboration between the country´s scientific and political experts and ...
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CO2 removal cannot save the oceans – if we pursue business as usual
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08/03/2015 - Greenhouse-gas emissions from human activities do not only cause rapid warming of the seas, but also ocean acidification at an unprecedented rate. ...
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Controlled implosion of fossil industries and explosive renewables development can deliver on Paris
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06/23/2016 - While some criticize the Paris climate target as impracticable, a team of scholars argues that it is – on the contrary – a triumph of realism. ...
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The Potsdam Institute at COP22 in Marrakech
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11/09/2016 - Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are attending the current UN climate summit COP22 in Marrakesch from ...
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Crash of seemingly stable social systems: new dynamics detected
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09/30/2016 - From Facebook to international climate agreements like the Paris accord that is currently in the ratification process, the stability of complex ...
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“Developing our cities, preserving our planet”: Nobel Laureates gather for the first time in Asia
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23.04.2015 - Nobel Laureates across the world and across disciplines this week are gathering in Hong Kong to elevate the debate on climate change to a new ...
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"Turning the US into a Jurassic Park run by dinosaur energy"
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03/29/2017 - US President Trump recently signed an executive order to roll back US climate policies. "Donald Trump's attempt to turn the US into a Jurassic ...
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Early warning: Physicists from Giessen, Potsdam and Tel Aviv forecast "El Niño" for 2020
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04/11/2019 -The serious weather phenomenon "El Niño" could soon occur again in the Pacific region. Researchers at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), the ...
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