04/03/2008 - The Potsdam Institute and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Consumer Protection of the German federal state Rhineland-Palatinate are co-operation partners. The state’s Environment Minister and PIK director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber signed today an agreement for an open-ended collaboration. The first joint research activity is a project about climate change and its impacts on landscapes in Rhineland-Palatinate – “KlimLandRP”.