Sustain Ability. The Potsdam Dialogues - Science for a Safe Tomorrow.: Recent Episodes
Potsdame Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
This podcast brings together leading thinkers and doers to discuss how to stabilize our climate and advance the transition to sustainability. Humanity faces a challenge that must be tackled across scientific disciplines, across national borders, across economic sectors, and across political camps. This podcast is about solutions for planet and people - for a safe tomorrow for all.
Climate change makes people lose their homes. Barbora Sedova, PIK Co-Lead of the FutureLab Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration, and Chris Hodder, the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia, discuss climate change and its impacts on migration, displacement and even conflict.
Festive season is in full swing in many countries. For lots of people, it’s all about buying, cooking, eating yummy foods, traditional meals, sharing them with friends and family – that’s the one side. On the other side, the food we buy and eat plays an important role in climate change. Especially meat and dairy consumption have been increasing for years in many parts of the world, making greenhouse gas emissions from food and agriculture rise further. Chef Megha Kohli and Agricultural Economist Hermann Lotze-Campen share with us how they tackle the challenges of our current food system.
Extreme weather events are on the rise. Are these events connected? Are they becoming more likely with global warming? What does science say about extreme weather events? In the new episode of the podcast ‘Sustain Ability. The Potsdam Dialogues - Science for a Safe Tomorrow’, experts Friederike Otto and Stefan Rahmstorf give insight into their latest research. They discuss attribution science, economic costs of extreme events, the art of communicating science - and what keeps them going in their personal scientific chasing of extreme weather events.
How can the European agriculture shift from climate culprit to saviour? Earth Scientist and PIK Director Johan Rockström discusses challenges of the current Common Agricultural Policy - short CAP - reform and its ability to live up to the objectives of the Green Deal with two guests who work at the very frontiers of the CAP: Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, and Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy at Trinity College.