News and events

The aim of the workshop was to foster synergies between UNIFI and MPI and to brainstorm future directions and research priorities concerning the interactions between climate, forests and socio-economic systems.

Presentation of research related to the WP5 on 28-29 August 2025 at Banque de France, Paris.

SPARCCLE researcher presented at the summer school for young international scholars, advanced PhD students, and early postdocs organised by the sister project PRISMA.

Two SPARCCLE researchers participated in the 30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Giovanni Forzieri (UNIFI) has been awarded as a National Champion within the Frontiers Planet Prize for the published study “Ecosystem heterogeneity is key to limiting the increasing climate-driven risks to European forests”.

Part of the WP3 content was presented to a scientific audience as part of a seminars series.

During the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, SPARCCLE researchers contributed to a thought-provoking installation just at the entrance of the Biennale. The installation, based on scientific content provided by ETH Zurich, including content related to the SPARCCLE project, invited visitors to physically experience future extreme temperatures and to confront the growing “cost” of comfort in an increasingly hostile climate.

Participation in the ISIMIP workshop to present the findings of Grant et al. (2025), published in Nature. Additionally, co-organisation of the workshop and acknowledgement of the project’s contributions to ISIMIP core data products (e.g. Deliverable 2.1).

SPARCCLE researchers participated in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2025 conference, with presentations covering both SPARCCLE research and related topics.

SPARCCLE researcher presented on the equitable distribution of climate mitigation and damage costs across regions.