Networks
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
Background
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 in order to study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social systems. PIK works closely with other international research agencies to find solutions and mitigating measures to the problems resulting from global environmental change.
Activities
PIK conducts research on four interdisciplinary domains, namely: Earth system analysis, Climate impacts and vulnerabilities, Sustainable solutions, and Transdisciplinary concepts and methods. Research results are published in reports and papers that are recorded in a publications database. The institute also collaborates closely with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the U.K., and is involved in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA).