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2 June 2023|Interview

A Pipe Dream as Business Model

Protect the climate and make money while you’re at it! That’s the company Sparkchange’s sales pitch. An article recently published in the newspaper Handelsblatt calls this business model into question. CEN Director Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino is a leading international expert on European emissions trading and explains the...

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26 May 2023|Research

Women in science – from inequalities to leadership?

In recent months, significant progress has been made within climate research institutions in Hamburg to address diversity issues and promote inclusivity in research. The Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), the School of Integrated Climate System Sciences (SICSS), Max Planck Institute for...

Presentation of Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2023 at German House in New York

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22 May 2023|CLICCS News

Shaping climate futures: The social drivers of deep decarbonization

The recently published Hamburg Climate Future Outlook 2023 was central to the expert discussion, held at German House in New York on 16th May, an event jointly organized by the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) and Universität Hamburg

The high-ranking and diverse expert panel consisting of Anita Engels...

Infostand mit Infomaterialien, Globen, Weltkarten und CLICCS Schriftzug an der Wand

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28 April 2023|Event

CLICCS, CEN and DKRZ at the EGU

At this year’s General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) from April 23 to 28 in Vienna experts from Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CLICCS and Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) presented their research on the climate and sustainability. The forum focused not only on new findings in...

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27 April 2023|CLICCS News

New Endowed Professorship on Climate Change and Society at Universität Hamburg

How can we achieve greater climate protection in Germany? What are the biggest hurdles on the path to CO2 neutrality? These are the questions Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut seeks to answer within the scope of his Mercator Professorship at Universität Hamburg. Aykut is set to take up his position on 1 May 2023. The sociologist is...

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Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook Figure 3

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25 April 2023|Research

The path toward climate goals

The graphic shows the outcomes of the Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2023, a comprehensive CLICCS study. The symbols represent the ten key social drivers on the way to worldwide deep decarbonization that were investigated. In this regard, net-zero emissions by 2050 are the prerequisite for limiting global warming to 1.5...

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