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Anna Pagnone presents the new Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook at our stand at EGU 2025.

Photo: UHH/CLICCS

20 May 2025|International

Science, dialogue, and a strong research community

This year’s European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly once again brought together geoscientists from around the world in Vienna – and CLICCS, the Cluster of Excellence for Climate, Climatic Change, and Society, was right at the heart of it. During the week, our team was present at booth 18, jointly with our...

Zu sehen sind zwei große Granietblöcke am Strand. Der Himmel ist blau mit einer weißen Wolke und im rechten Teil des Bildes ist eine Palme mit grünen Blättern.

Photo: Beate Ratter

19 May 2025|Research

Snapshot Seychelles

In March 2025, Beate Ratter sent us pictures and impressions of her research trip to the Seychelles, which we present here. The professor of integrative geography is an expert for climate change and adaptation measures on small islands.

Ratter holds the UNESCO Chair in “Societal Climate Research and Resilience”. She works...

Auf dem Bild sind Holzdominiosteine zu sehen, die gerade dabei sind umzufallen und von einer Hand aufgehalten werden sollen.

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23 April 2025|Research

New study on tipping points offers hope while warning against inaction

The risk of climatic tipping points like thawing permafrost and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest triggering each other in a chain reaction is lower than previously assumed. These grounds for cautious optimism can be found in a new study from the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CLICCS. But at the same...

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17 April 2025|Research

How much will the coal phase-out actually help the climate?

Germany 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 University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CLICCS offers surprising insights into such unilateral national approaches. The experts investigated how overlapping climate policies...

The skyline of a harbor in the evening light, the sky is red-orange. A single chimney emits smoke, the clouds of smoke drift across the sky.

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4 March 2025|Research

Climate expertise can make a difference – in varying doses

Federal climate protection measures aren’t currently sufficient to achieve our climate targets. Voluntary climate protection can help reduce CO2 emissions. But which options are really the most effective? A study involving experts from the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate research CLICCS shows that...

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27 February 2025|Research

Doing nothing now will cost us more later

The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 shows how climate change adaptation can ultimately succeed: through meticulously thought-through measures that are simultaneously climate-friendly and socially just, and which are jointly developed with the public. Beate Ratter is a Professor of Geography and one of the study’s lead...

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