News23 April 2025|ResearchNew study on tipping points offers hope while warning against inactionPhoto: Ngampol/Adobe StockThe risk of climatic tipping points like thawing permafrost and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest triggering each other in a chain reaction is...17 April 2025|ResearchHow much will the coal phase-out actually help the climate?Photo: : Christian Schwier/Adobe StockGermany is committed to phase out coal-fired power plants by 2038, but the actual climate effect of this policy is debated. A new study from the...4 March 2025|ResearchClimate expertise can make a difference – in varying dosesPhoto: M. Piwnicki / unsplashFederal climate protection measures aren’t currently sufficient to achieve our climate targets. Voluntary climate protection can help reduce CO2...27 February 2025|ResearchDoing nothing now will cost us more laterPhoto: Michael WaibelThe Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 shows how climate change adaptation can ultimately succeed: through meticulously thought-through measures...25 February 2025|ResearchWeaker ocean circulation could cost trillionsPhoto: CEN Climate Visualization LaboratoryA major motor for the global climate is beginning to falter: a massive system of ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation...Contribution from the university's newsroom11 February 2025|ResearchTides reduce marine CO2 uptakePhoto: NASA/GSFCThe ocean absorbs massive amounts of CO₂ from the atmosphere, helping to slow climate change. Tides have a major impact on the mixing, distribution...7 February 2025|ResearchBy 2100: An Arctic we’ll hardly recognizePhoto: UniHH/CEN/T.WasilewskiThe Arctic will change dramatically. If all nations meet the climate targets they’ve agreed to, the global mean temperature will rise by 2.7 degrees...19 December 2024|CLICCS NewsThe precarious future of permafrostPhoto: Meike Schickhoff/ MPI-MThe Arctic is heating up particularly quickly as a result of global warming - with serious consequences. The soils in the northern permafrost region...18 December 2024|CLICCS NewsActual Social Cost of CO2 Emissions More Than Twice as HighPhoto: PixabyGreenhouse-gas emissions cost societies far more than previously assumed: realistically, at least 270 euros per metric ton of CO2, as shown in a new...4 December 2024|Research"This study is a wake-up call"Photo: Benjamin M. Jones, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska FairbanksThe overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence, and erosion may lead to land loss in Arctic coastal regions that dwarfs the...2 December 2024|International"Sowing the seeds of change"Photo: Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse/UHHHamburg-based research on the international stage: sociologist Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse presents the Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 in São Paulo...2 December 2024|TransferWater Risks in HamburgPhoto: Uni Hamburg/CLICCS/T.WasilewskiThe CLICCS project “Water from four sides” invited practitioners and representatives of the scientific community to a joint workshop. The topic...29 November 2024|ResearchClimate-relevant dissertations wanted: 5000 Euro prize moneyPhoto: CEN/Universität Hamburg; Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyEach year, CLICCS nominates excellent doctoral theses in climate and Earth system research for the Wladimir Köppen Award. Outstanding dissertations...27 November 2024|ResearchOceanographer from Hamburg honored with Nansen MedalPhoto: UHHOnly six female researchers have it received since 1996, now Tatiana Ilyina has also been awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Medal – one of the most...25 November 2024|Research“When we look at our numbers, we can’t see any climate protection efforts”Photo: UHHRight on time for the UN Climate Change Conference, this year a new update of the Global Carbon Budget was released. It shows how much CO2 there is in...14 November 2024|Event"Art has the power"Photo: Uni Hamburg / L. GöttlingMore than 240 people gathered before the doors of the University Museum, waiting to get in. November 7 was opening day for the exhibition “Portraits...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...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...30 September 2024|ResearchWladimir Köppen Award 2023Photo: Bettina Diallo / MPI-MIn recognition of his outstanding dissertation, geophysicist Dr. Lennart Ramme has been awarded the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS’s 2023 Wladimir...23 September 2024|EventClimate researchers from UHH at the 14th ExtremeWeather Congress in HamburgPhoto: ARDThe 14th Extreme Weather Congress will take place at HafenCity University from September 25 to 27, 2024. The interdisciplinary conference aims to...Show all news
