Research UnitSustainability and Climate Risks

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has selected 664 experts from around the world to participate as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors and Review Editors in the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). Prof. Jana Sillmann who is leading the Climate Extremes research group at the Research Unit Sustainability...

Crossing an increasing number of planetary boundaries, rising geo-political tensions, growing inequality, and new technologies, result in the fact that our world today is confronted with numerous interrelated risks. These risks can exacerbate one-another, thereby creating systemic risks that can affect a whole system or...

Around the world, harvests are at risk: As global warming worsens, there is a growing risk of several breadbaskets – key agricultural regions – being struck by heatwaves simultaneously.

A team led by Dr. Leonard Borchert has investigated how frequent and intense these extreme events will likely be in the future. “If the...