Climate Risk Workshop 2026
Organizers: Chahan. M. Kropf and Valentin Gebhart, ETH Zurich
Venue
Display map on Google MapsThe Climate Risk Workshop 2026 in the Spanish Pyrenees is dedicated on all aspects around climate change. With a new and open “unconference” workshop format, it brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to discuss and collaborate on actionable solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation.
This workshop aims at the interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks, climate modelling, and the impacts of climate change on society, ecosystems, and economic systems. Potential topics include climate risk assessment and uncertainty, advances in climate modelling techniques, impacts of climate change on society, ecosystems, and economy, measurement and validation techniques, adaptation strategies and policy development, and evaluation of mitigation efforts and effectiveness. We welcome young as well as established researchers and practitioners from a broad range of fields including climate science, risk modelling, social sciences, data science and machine learning, ecology, physics, meteorology, biology, economy; and practitioners from NGOs and government institutions. Inspirational ideas for concrete collaborative projects: global state-of-the-planet stock take, what is risk and how to define it, story-narratives for possible futures, multi-dimensional stress-test scenarios, etc.
The workshop's main goal is to create a collaborative environment where experts can engage in in-depth discussions and propose actionable solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation. We employ an open-design unconference format: The number of talks will be limited in order to enable as many discussions as possible and to foster inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration. This means that there will be no fixed conference program.
The workshop will take place in Benasque, a beautiful village located in the heart of the Pyrenees. The collaborative environment provided by the Centro de Ciencias in Benasque has proven highly fruitful in earlier unconference-style workshops.
Registration and acceptance.
You can register for the whole two weeks (450 eur), which is preferred and recommended, or only for one of the weeks (350 eur).
You will receive an acceptance confirmation by Jul 17 2026 at the latest. The first 75 registrations will be accepted by default. After that, if there is high request, participants who register for two weeks will be given precedence.
Please pay the registration fee only after your registration has been accepted.
