The OCCR was involved in a ‘Nature’ study that criticises the fact that countries and companies include natural reductions to compensate for their own emissions. This type of net-zero balance must be adjusted, otherwise global warming cannot be stopped.

Economist and philosopher, Philippe Colo, analyses social tipping points. He says that a project like this is only possible in an interdisciplinary environment such as the Oeschger Centre, which uniquely supports and thrives on interdisciplinary collaboration.

An OCCR research group has published a study in The Science of the Total Environment that shows the traces of historical land use in today's landscape. The publication is based on sedimentary data from northern Greece covering the last 9000 years. Using palaeoecological proxies (pollen, spores, stomata, microscopic charcoal), the researchers were able to reconstruct the long-term dynamics of vegetation and thus evaluate the environmental factors controlling it.