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Green growth: 30 percent of regions worldwide achieve economic growth while reducing carbon emissions

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 10/29/2024 Green growth: 30 percent of regions worldwide achieve economic growth while reducing carbon emissions More and more regions around the globe combine...

Launch of the Planetary Health Check (PHC) by PIK

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 09/24/2024 Earth exceeds safe limits: First Planetary Health Check issues red alert The Planetary Boundaries Science (PBScience), a new initiative led by PIK...

James Baldwin at 100!

Today: one book & one book only: “The Collected Essays” of James Baldwin, who was born on this day 100 years ago. I opened the book at random to the following sentence, underlined in...

Tipping risks from overshooting 1.5 °C…

… can be minimised if warming is swiftly reversed Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 08/01/2024 Current climate policies imply a high risk for tipping of critical Earth system...

Food Matters

This PIK press release arrives at the very moment I hear a commentator on France Culture’s noon news broadcast explain that the quantity of food waste on our planet is, or rather would, be...

Reading Against Anti-Semitism

On Sunday 2.18.24 “A Poetry Reading in Response to Antisemitism” was held at The Museum of Jewish Heritage here in New York. Cultural critic and keynote speaker Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: How They Rise, Why...

No, the COP28 agreement will not enable the world to hold the 1.5°C limit…

…but yes, the result is a pivotal land-mark. The UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai closed. On this issue, PIK Directors Ottmar Edenhofer and Johan Rockström: Johan Rockström, Earth system scientist and Co-Director of...

Timely reversal of global warming could prevent Greenland ice sheet tipping

Image by Poul Christoffersen Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 10/18/2023 The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more resistant to global warming than previously thought, finds a...

On Ingeborg Bachmann’s 50th Death Anniversary

Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan In memory of the great poet & writer Ingeborg Bachman who died 50 years ago today, here is an extract from the final act of my play The Agony...

…endanger the South American monsoon Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 10/05/2023 The impacts of global warming, deforestation and intensified land use are pushing the South American monsoon towards...