08.10.202510.10.2025 Trees need water to cool the city Urban trees are often seen as natural allies in fighting summer heat waves. But how much [...]
01.09.202501.09.2025 Global Renewable Energy Investment Still Reaches New Record as Investors Reassess Risks Global investment in new renewable energy projects hit a record $386 billion in the first half [...]
07.08.202530.08.2025 Budget cuts and conflicts exacerbate hunger Worldwide, 733 million people suffer from chronic hunger – that is one in eleven people. This [...]
27.07.202527.07.2025 Paris Agreement temperature limits increasingly out of reach A new study involving researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) provides a [...]
19.06.202519.06.2025 Agricultural waste can become the clothes of the future Clothing made from straw instead of cotton in the future. Chalmers University of Technology: Agricultural waste [...]
29.05.202529.05.2025 Filtered Car Emissions Turn Toxic After Sunlight Exposure A new international study led by Helmholtz Munich and the University of Rostock reveals that emissions [...]
12.03.202512.03.2025 India issues record 73 gigawatts of utility-scale renewable energy tenders in 2024 This was the second year in a row that the country exceeded its target of tender [...]
12.02.202511.02.2025 A wealth of evidence: PIK compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on [...]
07.12.202406.12.2024 Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo Researchers find a potential explanation for the unusually sudden temperature rise in 2023: reduced low-level cloud [...]
29.11.202429.11.2024 Slowing down global sea level rise by delaying the melting of specific glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica Sea level rise is probably the single biggest impact of global warming, with effects on the [...]
14.11.2024 “The future of humanity is at stake. Action cannot be optional”: UN Secretary-General at COP29 The Taskforce on Net Zero Policy – an initiative to take forward key elements of the [...]
26.10.2024 Nations must close huge emissions gap in new climate pledges and deliver immediate action, or 1.5°C lost It is still technically possible to meet the 1.5°C goal, but only with a G20-led massive [...]
22.10.202422.10.2024 Global water crisis threatens more than half of world food production The global water cycle is increasingly out of balance – with consequences for the world economy [...]
30.09.202430.09.2024 China’s International Climate-Related Finance Provision and Mobilization for South-South Cooperation This paper discusses the climate finance mobilized by China to support developing countries’ climate actions. It [...]
27.09.202427.09.2024 A unique hybrid device to generate electricity and store thermal energy in an efficient and sustainable manner An international research team led by the UPC has created a hybrid device that combines, for [...]
24.09.202424.09.2024 Record Growth Drives Cost Advantage of Renewable Power 81% of renewable additions in 2023 were cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, offering countries a compelling [...]