diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d3e43ec59d..8230c219ea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 - [#876](https://github.com/helmholtz-analytics/heat/pull/876) Make examples work (Lasso and kNN)
 - [#894](https://github.com/helmholtz-analytics/heat/pull/894) Change inclusion of license file
 - [#884](https://github.com/helmholtz-analytics/heat/pull/884) Added capabilities for PyTorch 1.10.0, this is now the recommended version to use.
+- [#940](https://github.com/helmholtz-analytics/heat/pull/940) Duplicate MPI_COMM_WORLD to make library more independent.
 - [#941](https://github.com/helmholtz-analytics/heat/pull/941) Add function to save data as CSV.
 
 ## Bug Fixes
diff --git a/heat/core/communication.py b/heat/core/communication.py
index 7d9abfbc6f..e93b12bf1c 100644
--- a/heat/core/communication.py
+++ b/heat/core/communication.py
@@ -1883,7 +1883,11 @@ def __getattr__(self, name: str):
         return getattr(self.handle, name)
 
 
-MPI_WORLD = MPICommunication()
+# creating a duplicate COMM
+comm = MPI.COMM_WORLD
+dup_comm = comm.Dup()
+
+MPI_WORLD = MPICommunication(dup_comm)
 MPI_SELF = MPICommunication(MPI.COMM_SELF)
 
 # set the default communicator to be MPI_WORLD