For years, scientists have struggled to understand two major mysteries about the Earth’s climate: what triggered the ...
A recent report by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, commissioned for the 16th Conference of the Parties to ...
A major new scientific report charts an urgent course correction for how the world grows food and uses land in order to avoid ...
Increases in global grain production are mostly due to changes in agricultural technologies and an increase in cultivated ...
Currently, land degradation disrupts food security, drives migration, and fuels conflicts. The global area affected by land ...
Global emissions need to be reducing by more than seven percent every year "to avoid unmanageable global outcomes as the ...
"This paper is important in that it confirms what many have suspected but what hasn't been shown explicitly before," Stefan ...
Transforming land management to stay within planetary boundaries, produced at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in collaboration with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, is ...
Although countries agreed on a new USD 300 billion climate finance package for the Global South at the UN climate conference ...
a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and one of the lead authors of the first ever Planetary Health Check, released in 2024. A tipping point is a "critical threshold in ...
director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research PIK and lead author of the paper. Together with an international team of 28 scientists he first proposed the Planetary Boundaries (PB ...
Two signees — Figueres and Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research — said the letter was being badly misinterpreted as criticism of the climate talks.