| 26 April 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, May 6, at 11:00 AM CEST David N. Bresch ETH Zürich/MeteoSwiss The interoperability imperative in socio-economics impact assessments Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-bbGO1HSPQ |
| 25 March 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, April 15, at 15:00 PM CET Juergen Scheffran, Hamburg University Tipping points, cascading risks and conflicts in hot spots of climate-society interaction Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBEeC8XNVQg |
| 16 March 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the webinar Tuesday, April 6, at 14:00 UTC Bruno Merz and Massimiliano Pittore, GFZ Potsdam Multi-hazard impact forecasting, status and perspectives Brian Golding, UK Met Office Complex warnings: Making warnings work for multi-hazards and diverse impacts Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/HylryKzHMU8 |
| 10 March 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, March 18, at 16:00 PM CET Stéphane Hallegatte, World Bank Climate Change Group, Washington, USA Assessing and financing the full costs of disasters – the role of infrastructure systems and supply chains Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMO-Ag1UcM |
| 24 February 2021 |
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| Systemic Risk Workshop organized by UNDRR, ISC and Risk KAN Date: March 2nd & 3rd 2021 More about the Briefing Note on Systemic Risk here: Agenda, Participants and Scoping paper For informing this Briefing Note we invite you to send us relevant links and publications. |
| 23 February 2021 |
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| Call for Papers: Frontiers in Earth Sciences “Special Issue on Extreme Events in Human Evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene” For further details please visit https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18192/extreme-events-in-human-evolution-from-the-pliocene-to-the-anthropocene Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 March 2021 |
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Source(s): Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 2021 |
| 16 February 2021 |
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| PAGES working group on Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) Welcome to the webinar Friday, February 26, at 3pm CET Gordon Woo, Univ. College London Reimagining Volcanic History: Lessons from counterfactual analysis Amy Donovan, Univ. of Cambridge Imagining volcanoes: towards a holistic understanding of risk Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/WaWuY_oER1E |
| 16 February 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 8th webinar Thursday, February 25, at 15:00 UTC Deepti Singh, Washington State Univ. Influence of climate variability and change on spatially concurrent droughts Jordan Christian, Univ. Oklahoma Flash drought climatology: A local to global analysis Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/luR-SOwDS-Q |
| 03 February 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Modelling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, February 18, at 16:00 PM CET Robert Muir-Wood, Risk Management Solutions (RMS), Newark, CA, USA Risk Auditing: how can we measure progress in disaster reduction? Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/qQffPRBdOb4 |
| 16 November 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 7th webinar Tuesday, November 24, at 20:00 UTC Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford Univ. Multidimensional risk in a nonstationary climate Lauren Rickards, RMIT Univ. Unpacking ‘the social dimensions’ of compound and cascading climate change impacts Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/LUfbQR5AOMM |
| 11 November 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Modelling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the webinar Friday November 20 at 11:00 AM CET Ilan Noy, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand A dismal perspective on a boring topic: an economist looks at insurance Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/WRxqlZXJsXY |
| 27 October 2020 |
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Risk KAN related sessions at EGU For more information about related sessions find here Call for abstracts to open on November 3 Deadline for abstract submissions: Wednesday 20 Jan 2021 at 13:00 CET |
| Source: EGU General Assembly 2020 |
| 23 October 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Critical infrastructures Working Group Welcome to the webinar Monday November 9 at 14:00 UTC Patricia Romero Lankao,NREL and Univ. of Chicago Soft and hard infrastructure Alexander Fekete, TH Koeln – Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany Critical infrastructure cascading effects Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ir6XJH6CKG4 |
| 12 Oktober 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 6th webinar Thursday October 15 at 15:00 UTC Danielle Touma, UC Santa Barbara Competing anthropogenic effects cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather conditions Emanuele Bevacqua, U. Reading More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change at most locations worldwide Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ICRmoSaWC6M |
| 24 September 2020 |
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| Public On-Line Forum/Panel Discussion Coping with Extreme Weather Marking the 2nd anniversary of the Ottawa/Gatineau Tornadoes |
| 24 September 2020 |
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| HIWeather 2020 Workshops free online seminars on the latest HIWeather research more information for workshops and registration you will find here Time: October 26 until December 3 Registration will close on September 30 |
| 22 September 2020 |
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| Rebuilding from COVID-19 to Achieve Global Agenda 2030 (IRDR) Online Master Forum with Dr. Gordon McBean more information find here Tuesday, 29 September at 10:00 am Taipei time (UCT+8) Registration: https://reurl.cc/r8Rl5E |
| 17 August 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 5th webinar Tuesday August 25 at 14:00 UTC Vimal Mishra, IIT Gandhinagar Hot and dry extremes during the South Asian Summer Monsoon Daniela Domeisen, ETH Zurich Remote forcing of extreme events Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/n9EXNjGWfnk |
| 13 August 2020 |
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New Hazard Definition & Classification Review: Technical Review Link for report download find here |
| 10 August 2020 |
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| Workshop on Compound Weather and Climate Events organized by Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), supported by WCRPs Grand Challenge on Weather and Climate Extremes and the Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group More information find here Abstract submission: 13 July 2020 – 1 September 2020 |
| 22 July 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 4th webinar Wednesday Jul 29, 2020 14:00 UTC Miguel Mahecha, Leipzig University Julio Herrera Estrada, Descarte Labs Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/kZjpHnZRVn0 |
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| 18 June 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 3rd webinar Tuesday Jun 30, 2020 14:00 UTC Michael Puma, Columbia Univ, NASA GISS Michela De Dominicis, UK National Oceanography Centre Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/rrFu8ylsvsU |
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| 04 June 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Learning from the Past (past4future) Working Group Welcome to the first webinar Thursday June 18 01:00-02:00 PM UTC Blas L. Valero Garcés, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC, Spain Sam White, Dept. of History, Ohio State University, USA Zoom link find here |
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| 03 June 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Learning from the Past (past4future) Working Group Welcome to the second webinar Wednesday June 24 7:00-8:00 AM UTC Luke Kemp, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Univ.Cambridge Zoom link find here |
| more information find here |
| 01 June 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome for two special webinars Session I: Wed. June 3, 06:00 AM UTC Session II recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/PTAVooeiLto |
| Feel free to add your contact here |
| 24 April 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 2nd webinar Wednesday May 20 at 2pm UTC with talks by Lisa Thalheimer, University of Oxford, and Gabriele Messori, Uppsala University Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ys_sx0_mJ2g |
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| 16 April 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the first Risk KAN: Compound Events webinar Thursday April 16 at 14:00 UTC Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/_fSnE9RM97c |
| Feel free to add your contact here |
| 18 February 2020 |
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| Report “Our Future on Earth 2020” summarizes current results on the situation of our planet and presents connections and dependencies |
| Source: published by Future Earth, February 2020 |
| 14 January 2020 |
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| Build Back Better: What Is It, and What Should It Be? by Ilan Noy, Benno Ferrarini, and Donghyun Park for document download click here |
| Source: ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 600 December 2019 |
| 17 December 2019 |
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| EGU session ITS3.2/NH10.7 Climate extremes, biosphere and society: impacts, cascades, feedbacks, and resilience. For more information click here Cancellation of the physical EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria |
| Source: EGU General Assembly 2020 |
| 18 November 2019 |
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| Town Hall Session TH53A – Future Earth Knowledge-Action-Network on Extreme Events and Emergent Risks: Risk-KAN on Friday, 13 December 2019. For more information click here |
| Source: American Geophysical Union |
| 23 October 2019 |
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| WCRP Extremes and Risks Summer School, Nanjing, China, 21 October – 1 November 2019. For more information click here |
| Image source: Oppenheimer, M., M. et.al. 2014. Emergent risks and key vulnerabilities. In Climate change 2014: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Part A: Global and sectoral aspects. Contribution of working group II to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1039–1099. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Fig. 19.1. |
| 10 September 2019 |
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| Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Compound Weather and Climate Events” in Weather and Climate Extremes for more information click here |
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Source(s): Weather and Climate Extremes. Elsevier, 2019 |
| 30 August 2019 |
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Source(s): Sillmann, J.; Sippel, S.; Russo, S. 2019 Climate Extremes and Their Implications for Impact and Risk Assessment. 1.ed. Elsevier, 360pp. (Published Date: 1st November 2019) |
| 13 August 2019 | |
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| unprecedented wildfires in the Arctic monitored by Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), more information here | |
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| 01 August 2019 |
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Source(s): Ciurean, R.; Gill, J.; Reeves, H.J.; O’Grady, S.; Aldridge, T.. 2018 Review of multi-hazards research and risk assessments. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 109pp. (OR/18/057) |
| 01 August 2019 |
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| For the second time in one month, a widespread and intense heatwave impacted Europe more information here |
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Source(s): image “Extreme heatwave” contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , ©news: 2019 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) |
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| Herrenhausen Conference “Extreme Events: Building Climate Resilient Societies” will take place in Hanover, Germany, on October 9-11, 2019. The overall objective of the conference is to elucidate the relations between climate extremes, societal resilience, and sustainable development goals. | |
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| 16 May 2019 |
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| GAR report 2019 New Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction published by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, download |
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| 2 May 2019 |
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| Disasters 2018: Year in review In 2018 over 68 million people were affected by climate-related and geophysical disaster events across the world. Cred crunch, Issue no. 54, April 2019 |
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| WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018 highlights an increasing number of natural disasters and dangers linked to climate change, download. | |
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The WCRP summer school on extremes and risk management |
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The WCRP summer school on extremes and risk management is now open for applications. Please find further information at https://www.wcrp-climate.org/news/wcrp-news/1448-extremes-risk-summer-school-news
(co-organized/co-sponsored with NUIST, IRDR, START, IPCC and many other partners) |
| This activity seeks only senior PhD students (who will graduate in less than two years) and early career scientists (normally in an early stage of career) in a relevant field. | |
| 2 May 2019 | |
Climate Anomalies and Events 2018 |
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate: Selected Significant Climate Anomalies and Events 2018. |
| This map was compiled from NOAA’s NCEI State of the Climate Reports and WMO Provisional Status of the Climate in 2018. More infromation see https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/ | |
| 2 May 2019 | |
World disasters report 2018 |
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| 2018 World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies | |
| Published online October 2018, retrieved from https://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/world-disaster-report-2018/ | |