Upcoming Events
Insuring with Nature: Premium Rewards for Implemented Risk Reduction – Webinar
Learn how nature can deliver measurable resilience—and finance it
Wednesday, 17 December
15.00-16.00 CET
Join us for Insuring with Nature—a webinar on how ecosystem restoration and Nature-based Solutions can earn greeniums (insurance premium reductions and other pricing benefits) through verified risk reduction. We’ll also present the new NATURANCE CEN Workshop Agreement, an open pre-standard for shared design principles and metrics supporting credible, comparable NbS practice.
Speakers:
JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer (IIASA) & Jaroslav Mysiak (CMCC)
Please register here by December 16!
Climate Extremes & Societal Risks – Public Event
Organizer: European Horizon Projects XAIDA (Extreme Events: AI for Detection & Attribution) and MYRIAD
17 December 2025
16.00-19.30 CET
As the impacts of climate change intensify, the connection between science, risk, and policy has never been more crucial. Join us for an open and insightful evening exploring the state of the climate, the latest science on extreme weather and risk, and what must be done now to shape resilient and evidence-based climate policy.
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Working Group Meeting
Working Group: Climate Change, Disasters, Health and Well-being
7 January 2026
16.00-17.00 CET
We are very excited to welcome a talk by Dr. Yanchao Cheng. She will give a talk about the exciting work she is doing on the intersection of vector borne diseases and increasing flood and drought risk. This is part of a collaboration with Dr. Maurizio Mazzoleni and Dr. Marleen de Ruiter.
Their project develops a new modeling framework to quantify how floods and droughts impact the outbreak risk of vector-borne diseases (VBDs), focusing initially on West Nile virus (WNV) in the Netherlands under climate change. By predicting future WNV occurrence and identifying high-risk areas and vulnerable populations, we are bridging hydrological and epidemiological research to create a crucial foundation for broader European risk assessment and inform public health preparedness. The outcomes will be integrated into university courses and shared with key stakeholders like RIVM and the Red Cross to promote open science and shape future research priorities.
Email Marleen de Ruiter (m.c.de.ruiter@vu.nl) to get a link to the meeting!
Past Events
Climate signals behind synchronized locust outbreak risks
Working Group: Compound events
2 December 2025
11:00 CET
Warnings for Mental Health During Climatic Extreme – Webinar
Working Group: Warning and Preparedness for a Riskier World
29 October 2025
15:00 – 17:00 CET
We will launch the first mental health index by Rhiannon Hawkins, with panel discussants including Prof Virginia Murray, followed by a Q&A.
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Building Effective Health Warnings for Users: The First Mile’ with Medici con l’Africa Cuamm/ Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Working Group: Warning and Preparedness for a Riskier World
30 October 2025
14:00–18:00 CET
We will discuss with a wide range of stakeholders on how to build effective warnings for health issues, with a focus on emergent infectious diseases (EID) via a workshop with simulations, a roundtable event, and networking opportunities.
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Systemic Risks Conference and Workshop
24-26 September 2025
Existing risk assessments for individual climate-related hazards are not able to capture systemic risks. Common methods, data and tools we use today to assess and respond to risks are insufficient to effectively address the dynamic reality of interconnected risks. This workshop aimed to address current challenges of systemic risks related to climate extremes and to scope ways forward to tackle those in science and practice. This workshop brought together different disciplines to foster systemic thinking and systemic approaches to advance our knowledge and cross-sectoral opportunities related to systemic risks and climate extremes, to enable the development of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies that take the complexities of the real world into account.
Click here to read more about the Systemic Risk Conference and Workshop!
Early Warning, Early Action for Cascading Risks to Food Securit – Webinar
Working Group: Warning and Preparedness for a Riskier World
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
10:00 – 11:00 CET
As societies face increasingly complex and compounding risks, food systems around the world are becoming more vulnerable. This webinar will share key insights from the Citi Foundation-funded project “Early Warning, Early Action for Cascading Risks to Food Security (EWAC)”, led by Chatham House in collaboration with Practical Action.
✅ Challenges and opportunities in integrating cascading risks into early warning systems
✅ Community-level perspectives from case studies in Bangladesh and Senegal
✅ Recommendations for strengthening anticipatory action to safeguard food security
Speakers
Richard King (Chatham House)
Mirianna Budimir, Tamanna Rahman, Adama Dia (Practical Action)