Climate change

Humanity is currently facing two closely interlinked existential threats: climate change and growing food insecurity. These crises are not isolated phenomena, but share a common root cause: the widespread destruction of natural resources. (more…)

Climate change is not only affecting global temperatures, it is also fundamentally changing how our waters work. The global water cycle has been intensifying since at least the 1980s, bringing with it intensified cycles of precipitation and evaporation. These changes threaten not only the ecosystems themselves, but also the key services they provide us, such as (more…)

Weather extremes are no longer just catastrophic headlines from far-flung corners of the world. The latest report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Eurofound, based on data from 27,000 respondents in 27 EU countries, renders a raw image (more…)

The biodiversity crisis and climate change are now inextricably linked. Climate change, with extreme droughts and heat waves, is significantly accelerating the destruction of the natural environment, particularly through devastating forest fires. On the other hand, the loss of (more…)

As part of its climate ambitions, the European Union proposes a target for 2040 of a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 90 % compared to 1990 levels. (more…)

The world's meteorologists, climatologists and economists are sounding the alarm. After previous years of cooling the planet by the La Niña phenomenon and the subsequent transition through a neutral phase, our planet is currently on the verge of a massive and potentially catastrophic (more…)

In an era of accelerating climate crisis, resource instability and dramatic biodiversity loss, the forest bioeconomy is no longer just an environmental option – it is a strategic imperative for modern, competitive economies. (more…)

There is a silent but critical contradiction in today's corporate world that we call the "Tenure Gap." While climate signals operate on timescales of decades to centuries, the average CEO in the S&P 500 has only been in office for 7.6 years, and board members in (more…)

Imagine a normal Thursday morning in an otherwise unusually mild and rainy February suddenly turning into a nightmare. That's exactly what happened to an elderly couple in the small town of Pollestres in southwestern France when Storm Nils hit, literally tearing their house apart. (more…)

While most discussions about climate change focus on continued warming, one of the greatest climate threats of the 21st century could paradoxically bring drastic cooling to parts of the world and catastrophic flooding to others. Scientists and economists are increasingly focusing on (more…)

Climate change is inexorably leading to rising temperatures and longer, more intense droughts in many parts of the world. These global changes are locally exacerbated in urban environments by a phenomenon called the urban heat island. (more…)

While we would expect normal winter weather in our region in February, extreme climate events are showing their strength more and more often. A prime example is storm Nils, which hit southwest France in an uncharacteristically mild and rainy (more…)

Nature is not a luxury, but our most basic form of critical infrastructure. It is the cornerstone that keeps food on our tables, enables economies to function, and holds society together. But we are currently managing our planet with such (more…)

Between 1993 and 2022, extreme weather events globally claimed more than 765,000 lives and directly caused economic losses of nearly $4.2 trillion (adjusted for inflation). These alarming figures are the result of (more…)

To better understand climate change and sustainability, it is crucial to know 10 basic carbon terms. Carbon emissions indicate the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. To unify them into a single value, a metric is used CO2 equivalent (CO2e) a (more…)

Imagine standing on the threshold of an era where the past meets with unprecedented uncertainty. Strategic scenarios are not „divination from the orb“ or attempts to predict unpredictable shocks such as „black swans.“ They are (more…)

The soil beneath our feet holds enormous, yet often overlooked, potential for addressing the climate crisis. In its natural state, soil stores extraordinarily large amounts of carbon. As a result of the intensification of (more…)

Peatlands are wetland ecosystems characterized by the accumulation of partially decomposed organic material, i.e. peat. Although covering only 3 to 4 % of our planet's land surface, they hold almost one-third of the world's soil carbon. This huge amount of carbon (more…)

Forests are often referred to as the lungs of our planet, but their greatest climate treasure is hidden where we don't usually see it - underground. (more…)

When modern companies, governments, or non-governmental organizations try to seriously assess climate and natural risks today, they rarely cite the absolute lack of data as the first problem. In fact, it is (more…)