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 ...
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 ...
A recent report by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, commissioned for the 16th Conference of the Parties to ...
For years, scientists have struggled to understand two major mysteries about the Earth’s climate: what triggered the ...
Global emissions need to be reducing by more than seven percent every year "to avoid unmanageable global outcomes as the ...
Currently, land degradation disrupts food security, drives migration, and fuels conflicts. The global area affected by land ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Co-author Ricarda Winkelmann, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a member of the Earth Commission, said: "Importantly, many tipping elements in the Earth system ...
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.