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19 November 2025|Campus

The University of Hamburg Still Germany’s Most Sustainable University

The University of Hamburg is once again ranked first among German universities in the latest QS Sustainability Ranking. Internationally, it still ranks in the top 50.

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Zu sehen sind die zwei Master-Stdierende, Katherine Linscott (links) und Clara Harms (rechts), die den Preos von der Wübben Foundation Student Grant gewonnen haben.

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13 November 2025|Studies and teaching

SICSS master’s students honored

For the second half of their master’s degree studies, Clara Harms and Katherine Linscott will receive financial support from the Wübben Foundation. In recognition of their outstanding achievements in the interdisciplinary degree program Integrated Climate System Sciences at the graduate school SICSS and their contributions...

Zu sehen ist eine Person in einem blauen Anzug mit Kopfschmuck. Im Hintergrund ist ein großes COP 30 Zeichen.

Photo: Raimundo Pacco/COP30

10 November 2025|Interview

“Belém is a Signal”

This year, the world is heading to the Amazon for the UN Climate Conference. Sociologist Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse from the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS at the University of Hamburg is originally from Brazil and will attend COP30 in Belém as a researcher. He explains why the conference gives him cautious optimism, what...

Zusehen ist ein Umriss von Deutschland mit verschiedenen Ikons zur Klimawandel in Deutschland

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5 November 2025|Research

Climate Action: Is Germany backtracking?

Germany is increasingly at risk of failing to meet its own climate targets. A study just released by the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) assesses seven key social processes that have to stay the course to achieve effective climate protection in Germany. The...

Zu sehen sind die Gewinnerinnen des Young Academy Fellow.

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20 October 2025|Research

CLICCS Researchers Named Young Academy Fellow

Young talent for the scientific community: Dr. Andrés López Rivera, a political scientist at the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), was recently inducted into the Young Academy Fellows program, offered by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.

López...

Collage: visualization of rocks; portrait of climate scientist Vladimir Köppen

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20 October 2025|Research

Climate-relevant dissertations wanted: 5000 Euro prize money

Each year, CLICCS nominates excellent doctoral theses in climate and Earth system research for the Wladimir Köppen Award. Outstanding dissertations with a clear connection to climate research can be submitted until December 15, 2025. The award is worth €5,000.

The Wladimir Köppen Award targets talented young researchers who...

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