PIK
Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung
| Type | Research Center |
|---|---|
| Name in English | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
| Website | pik-potsdam.de |
| Wikipedia |  |
| Year founded | 1992 |
| Location |
Potsdam
 Germany
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| Budget | USD 5M-19M |
| Functions | Research |
| Funding sources | Governments or multi-govt organizations |
| Tags | environment climate water agriculture and food social policy sustainability and sustainable development |
| Summary | The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) was founded in 1992. At PIK researchers in the natural and social sciences work together to study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social systems. They examine the Earth system's capacity for withstanding human interventions and devise strategies for a sustainable development of humankind and nature. PIK research projects are interdisciplinary and undertaken by scientists from the following Research Domains: Earth System Analysis, Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, Sustainable Solutions and Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods. Through data analysis, computer simulations and models, PIK provides decision makers with sound information and tools for sustainable development. In addition to publishing results in scientific journals the Institute gives advice to national and regional authorities and, increasingly, to global organisations such as the World Bank. Understanding the Earth system is a huge task that no institution or country can tackle alone. PIK is part of a global network on questions of global environmental change. It closely collaborates with various international partners. |
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PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 24 March 2023 English
Rigorous experiments show that nutrition-sensitive intervention programs can contribute to improved food and nutrition security (FNS) of rural households in low-and middle-income countries. Targeted individuals may, however, choose to engage …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 24 March 2023 German
Um die ambitionierten Klimaschutzziele zu erreichen, braucht Deutschland effektive Instrumente und Maßnahmen auf nationaler, bundesstaatlicher und kommunaler Ebene. Der Erfolg dieser Politik wird maßgeblich davon abhängen, ob es gelingt, eine …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 22 March 2023 English
The Food and agriculture system plays a determining role in many countries ambitions to achieve net-zero by 2050. Sector pathways consistent with this objective most frequently describe sustainable intensification as …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 22 March 2023 English
The achievement of several sustainable development goals and the Paris Climate Agreement depends on rapid progress towards sustainable food and land systems in all countries. We have built a flexible, …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 22 March 2023 English
The question of how climatic changes and hazards affect human mobility has increasingly gained prominence in public debates over the past decade. Despite improvements in the scientific understanding of the …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 22 March 2023 English
Increases in ocean temperatures in the Filchner Ronne region of Antarctica are likely to result in increased ice mass loss and sea level rise. We constrain projections of the 21st …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 22 March 2023 English
Background: Despite considerable progress made over the past 20 years in reducing the global burden of malaria, the disease remains a major public health problem and there is concern that …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 22 March 2023 English
Many modern extinction drivers are shared with past mass extinction events, such as rapid climate warming, habitat loss, pollution and invasive species. This commonality presents a key question: can the …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 16 March 2023 English
The Helmholtz decomposition splits a sufficiently smooth vector field into a gradient field and a divergence-free rotation field. Existing decomposition methods impose constraints on the behavior of vector fields at …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 10 March 2023 English
Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just. Through collaboration between natural and social scientists, the Earth Commission defines and operationalizes Earth system …