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Climate futures: understand, shape, and decide
What are climate futures, which are desirable, and which are feasible? The Cluster of Excellence CLICCS brings together various actors and encourages thinking beyond conventional models of the future. In the following, CLICCS Speakers Johanna Baehr and Achim Oberg discuss the new project phase.
Andreas Linke
The climate transition – how far has Germany come?
Politicians and business are dragging their feet, consumption isn’t getting any environmentally friendlier, a political shift to the right has made climate skepticism socially acceptable, and support for climate action is eroding in some parts of the populace. A team led by Prof. Stefan Aykut, Dr. Anna Fünfgeld and Prof. Eduardo Gresse has analyzed the socially relevant key processes and concluded: right now, it’s hardly realistic for Germany to be climate-neutral by 2045.
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Heatwaves: More intense and less predictable
Heatwaves in Europe are not only becoming more frequent and intense, but also less predictable. A new study by a team led by Dr. Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga shows that global warming is amplifying the climate system’s internal variability.
UHH/Laura Vogiatzis
Excellent preparation for global challenges
The graduate school SICSS (School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences) offers options for every career stage: from master’s degree programs and Ph.D. projects, to postdoctoral and junior professor programs. Founded in 2008, SICSS has since admitted 343 Ph.D. candidates from 48 countries.
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Hope through action
Despite the challenging conditions in northern Namibia, the region’s smallholders are much more often optimistic than resigned. Prof. Michael Schnegg lives together with them on a regular basis and has investigated where their resilience comes from – and what e.g. Europe could learn from them.
To the article about climate change, hope and resilience
To the article about climate change, hope and resilience
Climate policy – is it all it’s cracked up to be?
When climate protection targets are set, measures are then designed to help achieve them. As Dr. Anne Gerstenberg shows, political interests and personal views have a major influence on measures’ specific design – and in some cases, even overshadow climate protection.
Why climate protection instruments are not neutral
CLICCS exhibit at Berlin’s Futurium
How far has society come in achieving key climate targets? Are consumption, climate policy, and industry still on course? At the Futurium, you can guess and push the button to see if you were right. Info-panels describe which social factors are most important for reducing CO2. The research is from CLICCS.
Hamburg's climate research at Berlin’s Futurium museum
Upcoming Event
The COP30 in Brazil and the Future of Climate Multilateralism
Panel Discussion at the University of Hamburg
Representatives from diplomacy, academia and civil society will discuss key questions of global climate policy: What impulses have emerged from the Brazilian presidency at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30)? What follows the negotiations in Belém – and where do the main political challenges lie?
Apr 23, 2026, 5:30 PM, R022/023, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg
Representatives from diplomacy, academia and civil society will discuss key questions of global climate policy: What impulses have emerged from the Brazilian presidency at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30)? What follows the negotiations in Belém – and where do the main political challenges lie?
Apr 23, 2026, 5:30 PM, R022/023, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg