Headline: RIFS Blog January 2023

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Im Blog des Forschungsinstituts für Nachhaltigkeit (RIFS) schreiben Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter aus allen Bereichen des Instituts. Die Themen reichen von Forschungsergebnissen über Veranstaltungsberichte bis hin zu Kommentaren über politische Entwicklungen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren äußern auf dem RIFS-Blog ihre persönliche Meinung.

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Arctic
Hydrogen
Social Justice
UN
Covid-19
Fellows
Coal phase-out
UN Climate Negotiations
Air quality
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Systemic risks
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Potsdam Summer School
Oceans
Narratives
Governance
Globalisation
Energy transition
Economy
Digitalisation
Democracy
Co-Creation
Climate engineering
Climate
Futures

Prof. Dr. Mark Lawrence

For just over 11 years, from October 2011 until the end of 2022, I worked as a scientific director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, helping to build it up from an experimental idea into an established institution. Now the IASS has become RIFS: the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Center Potsdam. During this time, I’ve learned a lot, and have also puzzled over many challenging questions. One of these seems quite simple: “How can I live sustainably?”.