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Prof. Dr. Hermann Held giving a presentation

Photo: ardmediathek.de

25 September 2024|News

Presentation on the 2° target and economic errors at the ExtremeWeatherCongress 2024

At this year's ExtremeWeatherCongress in Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Hermann Held gave a presentation on 'The 2 degree target and economic errors - why previous assumptions may have underestimated the risks'. The presentation was published in the ARD media centre (in German).

maps of europe

Photo: adapted from Felsche et al. (2024) under CC BY 4.0

25 September 2024|News

New publication on compound hot and dry summers over Europe

Cooperating with his former group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Dr. Benjamin Poschlod has investigated compound hot and dry summers over Europe.

The hot and dry summers of 2003, 2015, and 2018 have shown devastating economic, societal, and ecological impacts. The joint occurrence of heat (high temperatures) and...

harvesting on a field

Photo: H. Hubbs via Wikimedia under CC BY 3.0

23 September 2024|News

New publication: Heat impacts on the agricultural sector

The research group Climate Extremes has contributed to the recently published study “Human heat
stress could offset potential economic benefits of CO2 fertilization in crop production under a high-
emissions scenario” by Anton Orlov.

Climate change poses a threat to food production through various mechanisms. Increases in...

Natalia in front of an antique city panorama

Photo: Natalia Castillo

9 September 2024|News

Welcome Natalia Castillo at the FNK

Natalia Castillo is a Mexican Ph.D. student in the field of climate, especially the combined extremes of heat waves and drought. She has a Bachelor's degree in Atmospheric Sciences, a Master's degree in Physical Oceanography and a Postgraduate Diploma in Earth System Physics.

She is doing her Ph.D. in Sustainable...

Jihye Jeong in front of the ICAE label

Photo: Jihye Jeong

21 August 2024|News

Contribution to Namibian Subsistence Farming at ICAE in India

Current agri-food systems are not sustainable. Chronic hunger and undernutrition remain stubbornly high and have increased recently due to several overlapping crises. In order to address this issue, the theme of the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE-2024) was “Transformation Towards Sustainable...

Forest

Photo: University of Florida

13 August 2024|News

New publication on evaluating climate change induced forest vulnerability

The Research Unit for Sustainability and Climate Risks and the CLICCS C2 project Sustainable Land-Use Scenarios: Soil, Biodiversity, Water, Food and Energy Security collaborated in a recently published study contributing to the PhD thesis of Leam Martes, Doctoral Candidate at the Institute for Wood Science at the University...

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