News (2024)18 December 2024|NewsLaudatio for the award ceremony of the Kurt-Hartwig-Siemers-Wissenschaftspreis 2024Photo: www.h-w-s.orgProf. Dr. Hermann Held gave the laudatory speech at the award ceremony of the Kurt-Hartwig-Siemers-Wissenschaftspreis 2024 at the Hamburg Chamber of...5 December 2024|NewsContribution to WCRP Workshop in GenevaPhoto: https://ifm.ch/en/geneva.htmlBenjamin Blanz, Jana Sillmann and Leonard Borchert were invited to a Workshop on High-Risk Cascading Shocks on 18-20 November 2024. This workshop was...18 November 2024|NewsDr. Leonard Borchert new professorial substitutePhoto: shutterstock/parabolstudioDr. Leonard Borchert has been the new professorial substitute to Jana Sillmann’s professorship on Climate Extremes at the FNK since the beginning of...12 November 2024|NewsNew publication on the link between drivers and impacts of heat-related disastersPhoto: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/t93O93G9CYwI3xmMigWiFJ/Drought-to-dominate-Maharashtras-budget-session.htmlDisasters caused by climate change often result in severe economic and human damage. Our understanding of how the impacts and drivers of...24 October 2024|InternationalCLICCS discusses climate research in GhanaPhoto: DaadEnvironmental researcher Dr. Kerstin Jantke recently returned from a trip to Ghana as part of a German delegation that also included Katharina...16 October 2024|NewsNew publication takes a holistic look at sustainable food systemsPhoto: https://yourstrulyorganics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Organic-food-NZ-Food-website.jpgThe global food system currently contributes to and is affected by multiple global crises comprising climate change, biodiversity loss, land and...9 October 2024|ResearchScientists caution no guarantees when it comes to overshooting 1.5°CPhoto: UHH/CEN/T.WasilewskiEven if it is possible to reverse the rise of global temperatures after a temporary overshoot of 1.5°C some climate damages triggered at peak warming...25 September 2024|NewsNew publication on compound hot and dry summers over EuropePhoto: adapted from Felsche et al. (2024) under CC BY 4.0Cooperating with his former group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Dr. Benjamin Poschlod has investigated compound hot and dry summers over...25 September 2024|NewsPresentation on the 2° target and economic errors at the ExtremeWeatherCongress 2024Photo: ardmediathek.deAt this year's ExtremeWeatherCongress in Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Hermann Held gave a presentation on 'The 2 degree target and economic errors - why...23 September 2024|NewsNew publication: Heat impacts on the agricultural sectorPhoto: H. Hubbs via Wikimedia under CC BY 3.0The research group Climate Extremes has contributed to the recently published study “Human heatstress could offset potential economic benefits of CO2...More articles
