👉New paper with PIK contribution: Whereas global #biodiversity has declined between 2 and 11 percent during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, #climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-21st century: pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Energy-intensive industries: Countries with few opportunities for #renewables could save high costs if they relocated energy-intensive production to where renewables are cheaper, finds new PIK study in Nature Energy with Philipp C. Verpoort.
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Proud to have IPCC WG2 co-chair Bart van den Hurk giving his key note on „Impact assessments and scenarios in the Seventh IPCC Assessment Cycle“ at the ISIMIP/PROCLIAS workshop at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
Bart van den Hurk PROCLIAS - COST Action 19139 COST

Higher spatial resolution of #CHELSA climate data impoves #ClimateChange impact models across ISIMIP sectors. Johanna Malle from WSL Umweltforschung made this point by showing the first results of the Swiss National Science Foundation PROCLIAS COST action PROCLIAS - COST Action 19139 project ADOHRIS Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK

We published an interactive webapp alongside the paper, which allows users to reproduce figures under modified assumptions:

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📄💡 New paper published in Nature Energy estimating the “renewables pull” for green value chains of basic materials (steel & chemicals)!

Read online (open access): nature.com/articles/s4156…

👉New PIK paper by Philipp C. Verpoort , Falko Ueckerdt et. al: Securing competitiveness of energy-intensive industries through structural change: The pulling power of renewables pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

👂Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn from one of the leading experts in the field of climate science, Professor Ricarda Winkelmann from Universität Potsdam & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK!

Open for everyone that registers below, see you at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in May. 🙌su.se/english/resear…

PIK research gets the attention of policymakers: 3 papers conducted by PIK director Johan Rockström are among the top ten most cited papers in policy documents - congrats 💐👏
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I’ve read through the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK report on the economic impacts of climate change.
The results are eye-watering, but also very, very important. Everyone working in economics or finance - not just climate people - really needs to understand this.
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#Climatechange is likely to reduce future global income by about 19% until 2050 compared to a world with no climate change,finds new PIK study nature with PIK scientist Leonie Wenz. Most strongly affected are countries like South Asia & Africa.
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“ #EarthSystemBoundaries have, from the outset, not only taken on safety & justice, but [we] also want [them] to be a bit more forward-leaning, a bit closer to society”

Earth Commission’s Co-Chair Prof. Johan Rockström explains the importance of defining #SafeAndJust boundaries

🌳🌱🌲Planting only the most climate-suited trees does not guarantee the highest future biomass & carbon sequestration. A new PIK study shows that a diverse mix of trees increases long-term #forest biomass in the face of #climatechange . Link to the study: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17…

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.

New study: “Temperature increases drive the most economic damages in the future because they’re really the most unprecedented compared to what we’ve experienced historically,” says first author Maximilian Kotz. It harms crops and hinders labor production: apnews.com/article/climat…

38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate change. 👉New PIK paper in nature by Maximilian Kotz , Leonie Wenz , Prof Anders Levermann, PhD, Image: Kotz et al., Nature pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Short thread on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC , which brings a huge amount of heat to the northern Atlantic.
If it slows, the region west of Britain cools. And the Gulf Stream moves closer to the US coast, causing warming there.
Both are already happening,

How can we navigate the challenges of global sustainability? 👉Join conversation on #PlanetaryBoundaries with PIK director Johan Rockström on April 2024.