News Archive

April 18^th 4PM CEST
Michael Barnett Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business
How Should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy?
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Dr. Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann and Prof. Dr. América Bendito were invited as part of the UN Scientific and Technological Community Major Group convened by ISC to be the reviewers for the Mid-Term Report.
You can download the report here

Side event: Exploring the role of Artificial Intelligence for climate risk mitigation

Poster Cluster 31: Climate extremes & risk: Impacts, cascades, feedbacks with biosphere and society

Poster Cluster 32: Understanding and modeling of weather and climate extremes and related complex risks

Session: Hazards and Extreme events

April 18^th 4PM CEST/10 AM EDT
Virginia Murray (UK Health Security Agency)
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles and their use in documenting hazards
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March 29^th 09:00 CET
Dr John Handmer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Australian National University (ANU)
Improving warning systems through community action
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Find more information here

www.KATRIMA.de (Katastrophenrisikomanagement)

You can find our network now on the official German webpage on disaster risk management

EDITED BY : Huw Groucutt, Amy Prendergast and Felix Riede
PUBLISHED IN: Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Extreme Events in Human Evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene

Sessions:
EGU 2023, Session ITS3.4/SSS0.1: Climate Extremes & Risk: impacts, nature-based disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation

Session CL3.5: How does an overshoot of global temperature goals affect local climate impacts and adaptation planning?

Session NH10.1: Multi-hazards: Innovative approaches to risk assessments, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation

Session NH1: Extreme heat events: processes, impacts and adaptation

November 03^rd 14:00 UTC
Andrew Tupper (Natural Hazard Consulting, Melbourne)
It’s not all about the weather – strategies for connecting the natural hazards in multi-hazard early warning systems
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November 03^rd 14:00 UTC
Katharine Mach (University of Miami)
Advancing complex systems approaches toward equity, actionable knowledge, and principles for governance
Kelly Hereid (Liberty Mutual)
Climate risk and adaptation in the built environment
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November 03^rd 14:00 UTC
Katharine Mach (University of Miami)
Advancing complex systems approaches toward equity, actionable knowledge, and principles for governance
Kelly Hereid (Liberty Mutual)
Climate risk and adaptation in the built environment
Watch the recording here

November 27^th 9:00 AM CET
Dr. Andrew Tupper (Natural Hazard Consulting, Melbourne)
It’s not all about the weather: strategies for connecting the natural hazards in multi-hazard early warning systems

Watch the recording here

October 27^th 16:00 CEST
Dr. Thirze Hermans (University of Leeds): Exploring the integration of local and scientific knowledge in early warning systems for disaster risk reduction: a review

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October 19^th 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST)
Ilana Otto (University of Graz) & Cornelia Auer (PIK) on cascading climate change impacts and nonlinear system responses; conceptual and methodological approaches that can be used for them; and empirical examples from the CASCADES project

You can find the recording here

September 29^th 16:00 CEST
Dr. Trevor Girard (Risklayer): Effective communication of disaster response information

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December 12^st – December 16^rd 2022
Chicago, Il, USA

December 12^st – December 16^rd 2022
Chicago, Il, USA
Plus Meet up: Dec 15, 6.30 – 8.00PM at the Hilton (Marquette Room)

Session Description

June 21^st – June 23^rd 2023
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany

Volkswagen Stiftung conference webpage

September 13^th 14:00 UTC
P. Ward (VU Amsterdam)
MYRIAD-EU: a pilot project for multi-hazard, multi-sector, and systemic risk management

You can watch the recording here

June 21^st – June 23^rd 2023
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany

Registration open

Early Career Researchers: Application closed

Golding, B. (edit.) Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning. Bridging Disciplinary Gaps through Partnership and Communication. Met Office 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98989-7

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Thursday 30^th June at 14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT/16:00 CET)

Speaker
Anaïs Couasnon (VU Amsterdam)
Addressing challenges in multi-hazard decision-making with modeling and risk-simulation games and
Greg Yetman (Columbia U)
Hazard event interactions: Data for planning and select examples

Recording onn youtube

Monday 06^th June at 14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT/16:00 CET)

Speaker
Beth Tellman (U Arizona);
Understanding flood risk from space: Opportunities to adapt to changing risk and catalyze climate justice

Recording on youtube

Thursday 19^th May at 16:00 CET

Speaker
Dr Avi Baruch (Previsico);
New approaches to surface water flood forecasting

Recording on youtube

Tuesday 19^th April

Speaker
Markus Reichstein holds a talk on “Existential Risk emerging from systemic and compound risk?” at the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk

Thursday 28^th April at 16:00 CEST

Speaker
Dr Brian Golding and Dr Joanne Robbins (UK Met Office) and Dr Anna Scolobig (University of Geneva);
Towards the “perfect” weather warning: bridging disciplinary gaps through partnership and communication

Recording on youtube

Tuesday 5^th April at 14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT/16:00 CET)

Speaker
Maurizio Mazzoleni (VU Amsterdam);
Exploring the human influence on the impacts of consecutive drought and flood events: a modelling approach

Recording on youtube

Recordings now available!

You can find the records of most presentations here

Sillmann, J., Christensen, I., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Huang-Lachmann, J., Juhola, S., Kornhuber, K., Mahecha, M., Mechler, R., Reichstein, M., Ruane, A.C., Schweizer, P.-J. and Williams, S. 2022. ISC-UNDRR-RISK KAN Briefing note on systemic risk, Paris, France, International Science Council, https://doi.org/10.24948/2022.01

Download briefing note here

Tuesday 29^th March at 4:00 PM (CET)

Speaker
Dr. Will Lang (UK Met Office, lead of WMO Expert Team);
Guidance on impact-based forecasting and warning services

Recording is here

Thursday 10^th March at 3:00 PM (CET)

Speaker
Prof. Victor Brovkin (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology);
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system

Recording available here

Thursday 24^th February at 9:00 AM (CET)

Speakers are
Dr. Sally Potter and Sara Harrison (GNS, New Zealand)
How effective are impact-based warnings and what data do we need to implement them?

recording here

Thursday 20^th January at 4:00 PM CET

Speaker
Dr Carina Fearnley & Claudia Fernandez De Cordoba Farini (UCL Warning Research Centre);
Enhancing Warnings: Doing Better at Warning and Generating Action

Find the recording here.

Thursday 20^th January at 3:00 PM (CET)

Speaker
Prof. Ted Shepherd (University of Reading);
Bringing physical reasoning into statistical practice in climate-change science

Find the recording of the webinar on youtube.

Thursday 23^rd December at 4:00 PM (UTC+8)

Speakers are
Prof. Jian-Hong Wu (Future Earth, Taipei);
Risk analysis on the impact area of a large landslide

Thursday 09^th December at 3:00 PM (UTC)

Speakers are
D. Faranda (IPSL)
Cold & snowy spells over Europe in the context of anthropogenic climate change
J. Doss-Gollin (Rice U)
Extreme impacts don’t require extreme weather: lessons from the Feb 2021 Texas blackouts

Recording available on YouTube

How to deal with climate-related existential risks? Reflections after COP26

Recording available here

Sessions:
Session NH9.13: Climate change, extreme events, natural hazards & society – palaeo-perspectives from across the human and natural sciences

Session CL3.2.6: Climate extremes, biosphere and society: impacts, cascades, feedbacks, and resilience

Session CL3.2.7: Climate Change as a Systemic Risk.

February 8^th to 10^th 2021 | Online

Sessions:
Session A45L – Jet Stream Dynamics, Atmospheric Rossby Waves, and Associated Extreme Weather and Climate

Session GC55D – Compounding Climate Extremes: Mechanisms, Diagnostics, and Current and Future Impacts

Social Event:
AGU2021
Compound Extreme Events Social Gathering
sponsored by Risk KAN and the National Academies Gulf Research Program, Thursday 16 December, 5:30-7:30 PM
Prince of Wales Room at the Hilton Riverside Hotel New Orleans

Thursday 25^th Nov. at 2:00 PM (UTC)

Speakers are
Marianna Budimir and Alison Sneddon (Practical Actions)
How do social inequalities affect people’s EWS needs, challenges and barriers ?

Recording will be available soon on YouTube

Self nominations are welcome from October 04 until November 26

Apply using our online application form

Thursday 28^th Oct. at 3:00 PM (CEST)

Speakers are
Steve Penson and Nic Parham , (ACAPS)
Climate Hazards and Complex Humanitarian Crises

Recording available on YouTube

Wednesday 20^th Oct. at 2:00 PM (UTC)

Speakers are
Suzana Camargo, (Columbia Univ.)
Subseasonal tropical cyclone forecasts:Recent results and compound events
Tom Matthews, (Loughborough Univ.)
Double trouble from the tropical cyclone ? extreme heat compound hazard?

Recording available on YouTube

Thursday 23^rd Sept. at 14:30 AM (CEST)

An Early Career Perspective on Early Warnings for Multihazard and Systemic Risk

Speakers include Alessia Matanó, IVM-VU Amsterdam; Gemma Cremen, EPICentre-Univ. College London; Matias Menalled, Argentina Nat. Meteor. Service & Erika Melendez, Polytechnic Univ. of Catalonia,Center of Applied Res. in Hydrometeor.

Recording will be available soon YouTube

Thursday, August 19, at 14:00 UTC

Manuela Brunner, University Freiburg
Spatially compounding floods in the US: where, why, and how often are they happening

Ankit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee
Multi-scale approaches in forecasting extreme floods and their global connections

Recording available on YouTube

24^th June at 10:00 AM (CEST) 2021

Systemic Risk & Covid-19

Speakers include Mark Quigley, University of Melbourne, Evan Easton-Calabria, University of Oxford and Sheikh Khairul, German Red Cross

Recording available on YouTube

Nature Commentary: Reichstein, M., Riede, F., Frank, D. (2021). More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals. Nature, 592, 347-349. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00927-x

Thursday, June 10, at 14:30 UTC

Alexander Fekete, TH Köln
General introduction to the critical-infrastructure concept

Lee Chapman, Univ Birmingham
Forget climate resilience, what about weather resilience?

Mari Tye, NCAR
Understanding infrastructure fragility to future weather and climate extremes

Recording available on YouTube

more information you will find here

July 08-09, 2021, Live virtual event

Session SSII9 – Climate Change and Systemic Risk (July 9 2021, 13:20 CEST) organized by Risk KAN

Deadline for the registration:
28 June 2021

Thursday, June 3, at 15:00 PM CEST

Wim Thiery Vrije University Brussel
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