Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video introduces the work of the Agricultural Demonstrator within the H2020_Insurance Project, which focuses on the development of a risk assessment tool for crop insurances in East Africa. Dr. Gornott addresses the challenges in the application of insurance schemes with regards to accurately assessing crop yields and crop losses and outlines how these challenges are addressed through the Demonstrator.
Interviewee: Dr. Christoph Gornott, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Directed by: Sophia Rottmann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
This video introduces the work of the Agricultural Demonstrator within the H2020_Insurance Project, which focuses on the development of a risk assessment tool for crop insurances in East Africa. Dr. Gornott addresses the challenges in the application of insurance schemes with regards to accurately assessing crop yields and crop losses and outlines how these challenges are addressed through the Demonstrator.
Interviewee: Dr. Christoph Gornott, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Directed by: Sophia Rottmann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research





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The retreat of the West Antarctic ice masses after the last Ice Age was reversed surprisingly about 10,000 years ago. This is in stark contrast to previous assumptions. In fact, it was the shrinking itself that stopped the shrinking: relieved from the weight of the ice, the Earth crust lifted and triggered the re-advance of the ice sheet. However, this mechanism is much too slow to prevent dangerous sea-level rise caused by West Antarctica’s ice-loss in the present and near future. Only rapid greenhouse-gas emission reductions can. More information: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/what-saved-the-west-antarctic-ice-sheet-10-000-years-ago-will-not-save-it-today
Article: J. Kingslake, R.P. Scherer, T. Albrecht, J. Coenen, R.D. Powell, R. Reese, N.D. Stansell, S. Tulaczyk, M.G. Wearing, P.L. Whitehouse (2018): Extensive retreat and re-advance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene. Nature [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0208-x]
Weblink to the article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0208-x What saved the West Antarctic Ice Sheet 10,000 years ago will not save it today](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VuveqaHBxC0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Rapid emissions reductions would keep CO2 removal and costs in check
Jessica Strefler from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on her new paper.
Rapid greenhouse-gas emissions reductions are needed if governments want to keep in check both the costs of the transition towards climate stabilization and the amount of removing already emitted CO2 from the atmosphere. To this end, emissions in 2030 would need to be at least 20 percent below what countries have pledged under the Paris climate agreement, a new study finds – an insight that is directly relevant for the global stock-take scheduled for the UN climate summit in Poland later this year. Removing CO2 from the atmosphere through technical methods including carbon capture and underground storage (CCS) or increased use of plants to suck up CO2 comes with a number of risks and uncertainties, and hence the interest of limiting them. More information: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) www.pik-potsdam.de
Article: Jessica Strefler, Nico Bauer, Elmar Kriegler, Alexander Popp, Anastasis Giannousakis, Ottmar Edenhofer (2018): Between Scylla and Charybdis: Delayed mitigation narrows the passage between large-scale CDR and high costs. Environmental Research Letters [DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aab2ba] Rapid emissions reductions would keep CO2 removal and costs in check](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WC1P2Ua2YKg/mqdefault.jpg)



