Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Here are some impressions of experts and participants of the 2019 Potsdam Summer School with a focus on Communicating Research on Sustainability and Global Change. In partnership with Geo.X and the City of Potsdam, the Potsdam Summer School is jointly organised by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and the University of Potsdam.
Interested to join Potsdam Summer School? The 2020 focus will be on "Water: Our Global Common Good – The Hydrosphere across Land and Sea" - for more information have a look here: potsdam-summer-school.org
Here are some impressions of experts and participants of the 2019 Potsdam Summer School with a focus on Communicating Research on Sustainability and Global Change. In partnership with Geo.X and the City of Potsdam, the Potsdam Summer School is jointly organised by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and the University of Potsdam.
Interested to join Potsdam Summer School? The 2020 focus will be on "Water: Our Global Common Good – The Hydrosphere across Land and Sea" - for more information have a look here: potsdam-summer-school.org







![China floods to hit US economy: climate effects through trade chains
Anders Levermann and Sven Willner from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on their new paper.
Intensifying river floods could lead to regional production losses worldwide caused by global warming. This might not only hamper local economies around the globe – the effects might also propagate through the global network of trade and supply chains, a study now published in Nature Climate Change shows. It is the first to assess this effect for flooding on a global scale, using a newly developed dynamic economic model. It finds that economic flood damages in China, which could, without further adaption, increase by 80 percent within the next 20 years, might also affect EU and US industries. The US economy might be specifically vulnerable due to its unbalanced trade relation with China. Contrary to US president Trump’s current tariff sanctions, the study suggests that building stronger and thus more balanced trade relations might be a useful strategy to mitigate economic losses caused by intensifying weather extremes.
Article: Sven N. Willner, Christian Otto, Anders Levermann (2018): Global economic response to river floods. Nature Climate Change [DOI:10.1038/s41558-018-0173-2] China floods to hit US economy: climate effects through trade chains](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A8lYYGK8G5k/mqdefault.jpg)


