Workshop Systemic Risks and Climate Extremes 2025
The Climate Extremes Research Group organizes an international workshop in September 2025 on the topic of Systemic Risks and Climate Extremes.
Scope:
Systemic risks are emerging as an important topic on the science and policy agendas. Systemic risk can arise from the interplay of climate change and natural hazards within a network of interdependent social, technical, ecological and economic systems. As a result, we are confronted with multiple, interlinked and intensifying crises in global systems. Systemic risks are characterized by cascading effects that spread within systems and sectors (e.g. finance, health, infrastructure, energy and agriculture) and across system boundaries. As such, systemic risks need to be considered in the design and implementation of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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. The workshop aims 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 will bring 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.
Aims:
- bring together people from different disciplines working on systemic risks
- exchange of researchers and practitioners
- showcase the challenges in systemic risks related to climate extremes
- gain a better understanding of tools and data
- create new opportunities for cross-sectoral/cross-disciplinary collaboration on the topic of systemic risks related to climate extremes
Date: 1-3 September 2025
Speakers: tbd
The Organisation Committee:
Jana Sillmann, Benjamin Blanz, Leonard Borchert, Nele Räther, Malte von Szombathely, Vidur Mithal, Aiswarya Thazhissery-Pavanan