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COVID-19 pandemic
March 2020

Responding to a global crisis - the coronavirus pandemic and the climate emergency

Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Kim Coetzee

Governments around the world are doubling down on containing the COVID-19 pandemic, showing what a response to a global crisis – also the climate crisis - can and should look like: government action informed by science, individual behavioural change enabling the transformation, and leaving no one behind while focusing on protecting the most vulnerable.

(This article is also available in German)

Small Island Developing States, such as Kiribati, are on the frontlines of climate change.
November 2019

Home by the sea: new science shows more sea-level rise impacts on small islands

Dr Alexander Nauels, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

Oceans and seas around the world will continue to rise for centuries, even long after global mean temperatures have stabilised, new research shows. Add to that another recent finding that more land is below the high tide line than originally estimated and the implications for small island communities are clear: they face serious and protracted challenges from global warming related sea-level rise. Steep carbon emission reductions and limiting warming to 1.5°C, as governments agreed by signing the Paris Agreement, will significantly reduce risks related to long-term sea level rise.