Tag:Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Pollution

Study: Coal exit can happen only with stronger policies – and with China

Current climate policies including efforts like the Powering Past Coal Alliance will not add up to a global coal exit, a new study shows. Countries...

Michael Simire - February 6, 2023

Climate Change

Climate change makes people too poor to migrate, say researchers

Climate change increases migration worldwide. Over the past 30 years, however, this effect has been considerably reduced as climate change weakens economic growth in...

Michael Simire - January 23, 2023

Climate Change

US: Why climate risk insurance can effectively mitigate economic losses

Global warming is expected to lead to an accumulation of particularly intense hurricanes in the United States. This may substantially increase the economic losses...

Michael Simire - January 5, 2023

Climate Change

Targeted reimbursement: A just price for CO2

A price for CO2 can be both highly effective and socially just - if it's well designed. This is the result of a new study...

Michael Simire - October 2, 2022

Climate Change

Rapid changes in energy, food and equity required for prosperous future – Report

In a follow-up to the “Earth4all” report published by the Club of Rome, co-author of the report and Director of the Potsdam Institute for...

Michael Simire - August 30, 2022

Climate Change

Unprecedented rise of heat and rainfall extremes in observational data

A 90-fold increase in the frequency of monthly heat extremes in the past 10 years compared to 1951-1980 has been found by scientists in...

Michael Simire - October 9, 2021

Marine

Major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching critical threshold – Study

The major Atlantic ocean current, to which also the Gulf stream belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century. This...

Michael Simire - August 5, 2021

Climate Change

How erratic weather slows down the economy, by experts

If temperature varies strongly from day to day, the economy grows less. Through these seemingly small variations climate change may have strong effects on...

Michael Simire - February 8, 2021

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