| 19 November 2021 |
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| IIASA Public Webinar #3: In conversation with Reinhard Mechler
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| 29 October 2021 |
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| AGU 2021 (New Orleans | USA | December 13th to 18th 2021 | in person & Online)
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| 17 November 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warnings Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 25th 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 |
| 04 October 2021 |
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| Open Call to join Risk KAN Steering Committee
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| 18 October 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warnings Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 28th Oct. at 3:00 PM (CEST) Speakers are Steve Penson and Nic Parham , (ACAPS) Climate Hazards and Complex Humanitarian Crises Recording available on YouTube |
| 18 October 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Wednesday 20th 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 |
| 13 September 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 23rd 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 |
| 29 July 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the webinar 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 |
| 20 June 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group Welcome to the Webinar 24th 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 |
| 26 May 2021 |
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| More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals 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 |
| 25 May 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the webinar 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 |
| 20 May 2021 |
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| German Sustainability Science Summit 2021 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 |
| 20 May 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, June 3, at 15:00 PM CEST Wim Thiery Vrije University Brussel The kids aren’t alright Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMnCBfoae4 |
| 07 May 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group Welcome to the Webinar: Communicating Early Warnings for Systemic 27th May at 16:00 (CEST) 2021 Amy Polen, USF and Nadia Bloemendaal, VU Amsterdam Complexity of severity scales for systemic risk Marc van den Homberg, Red Cross 510 Bridging the last mile in community early warning systems Register at https://tinyurl.com/riskkan-27may |
| 07 May 2021 |
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Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021
more information and registration you will find here June 12-15, 2021, Live virtual event |
| 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 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 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 Brian Golding, UK Met Office 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 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 |
| 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 Amy Donovan, Univ. of Cambridge 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. Jordan Christian, Univ. Oklahoma 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 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. Lauren Rickards, RMIT Univ. 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 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 Alexander Fekete, TH Koeln – Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany 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 Emanuele Bevacqua, U. Reading 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 8 October 2020, noon to 2PM EDT more information find here |
| 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 Daniela Domeisen, ETH Zurich 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 Further information are: Virtual Meeting: Launch of a new scientific report on hazards definition Recording available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Wvmzn84Jk |
| 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: |
| 22 July 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 4th webinarWednesday 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 webinarTuesday 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 webinarThursday 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 webinarWednesday 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 webinarsSession I: Wed. June 3, 06:00 AM UTC with talks by Robiul Islam, Univ. of Tokyo, Poulomi Ganguli, Ind. Inst. of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and GFZ Potsdam and Samuel Sutanto, Wageningen Univ. Session II: Thur. June 4, 02:00 PM UTC with talks by Aloïs Tilloy, King’s College London, Freya Garry, UK Met Office and Mohammad Reza Najafi, Western Univ. Session II recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/PTAVooeiLto |
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| 24 April 2020 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the 2nd webinarWednesday 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 webinarThursday April 16 at 14:00 UTC Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/_fSnE9RM97c |
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| 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) |
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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/ | |
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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/ | |