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Climate Economics: Policies change people
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], June 9 (ANI): The makers of climate policy should rethink about how people think. A team of researchers led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that abiding by climate-friendly policies actually changes the way people think about what they do.
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Fighting poverty, protecting environment can work together: German policy
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], June 2 (ANI): On the occasion of the Stockholm+50 summit which is starting Thursday, a report by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) for the German Environment Ministry shows that a decent living for all people and better protection of nature and clima
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Here's how greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], May 16 (ANI): According to a study by a team of Potsdam scientists, global food system needs to be transformed in order to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Economic growth goes down when number of days with extreme rainfall go up:
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], January 13 (ANI): A study by a team of Potsdam scientists found that economic growth goes down when the number of wet days and days with extreme rainfall go up.
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Green Electricity can become cheapest energy by 2050, says study
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], November 26 (ANI): Cost-slashing innovations are underway in the electric power sector and could give electricity the lead over fossil-based combustion fuels in the world's energy supply by mid-century, according to Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
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Researchers conduct study to reduce tropical cyclone impacts
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Berlin [Germany], October 3 (ANI): A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found that increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might lead to about 25 per cent more people being put at risk by tropical cyclones.
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Researchers find double benefit of climate protection through both limitin
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 27 (ANI): Increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might lead to about 25 per cent more people put at risk by tropical cyclones, a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found.
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Parts of Greenland may be on the verge of tipping, suggests new study
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], May 18 (ANI): Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have detected new early-warning signs that the central-western part of the Greenland ice sheet has been destabilizing and may now be close to a critical transition.
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Limiting water stress risks: Irrigation management key for bioenergy produ
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], March 8 (ANI): A combined study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) showed that to prevent water scarcity, biomass plantations for energy production need sustainable water management.
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Just 15 years of post-Paris Agreement emissions to lock in 20 cm of sea-le
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], Nov 5 (ANI): Unless governments significantly scale up their emission reduction efforts, the 15 years' worth of emissions released under their current Paris Agreement pledges alone would cause 20 cm of sea-level rise over the longer term, according to new research publishe
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Climate change: Trade liberalization could buffer economic losses in agric
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 25 (ANI): Global warming could create substantial economic damage in agriculture, a new study conducted by a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) finds.
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