SYRR researchers at the “Systemic Risks and Climate Extremes Conference and Workshop” in Hamburg.

Systemic risks are emerging as an important topic on the science and policy agendas. It can arise from the interplay of climate change and natural hazards within a network of interdependent social. 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. The conference and 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. It 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.

Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler and Raquel Guimaraes will join the conference as well as workshop with a presentation on interoperability gap identifications for systemic risk analysis (Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler). It builds on current research done within the Myriad-EU, Directed and ZCRA projects and provides ways forward how to address complexity within systemic risk research.