News and events

A preparatory webinar was held on 27 November 2024, before the in-person workshop in Brussels (3-4 December 2024), to set expectations, outline materials that would be available during the workshop, offer an opportunity for feedback, and outline main narratives of interest for the three stress tests.

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

Two SPARCCLE researchers attended the EAERE Annual Conference 2024 in Leuven, Belgium, where they presented insights from two studies: one on the impact of climate change on labour and mortality, and another on its impact on hurricanes.

SPARCCLE researchers participated in the ‘What Works Climate Solutions Summit’, a high-level conference for evidence-based climate policy held from 9–12 June, 2024.

SPARCCLE Project Coordinator, Edward Byers (IIASA), visited ETH Zurich to discuss model developments that will contribute to the SPARCCLE modelling framework. Discussions focused on MESMER climate model emulator, emulator contributions to the forthcoming IPCC 7th Assessment, and climate damages and risk assessment using the CLIMADA model.

Several SPARCCLE researchers took part in the ‘ISIMIP-PROCLIAS Cross-sectoral climate impacts’ workshop held at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research from 22-26 April 2024. The event brought together over 100 researchers working on climate impacts modelling, who presented their latest research and coordinated plans for forthcoming modelling exercises. A key focus of the discussions was to best position the climate impacts modelling community for supporting the forthcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report, with particular emphasis on Working Group 2 (WG2) on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

SPARCCLE researchers participated in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2024 conference, presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more.

SPARCCLE researcher attended the 12th IAERE Annual Conference in Pescara, Italy and presented the project’s work on climate impacts on labour and mortality.

SPARCCLE Project Coordinator, Edward Byers (IIASA), presented an overview of the project during the European Environmental Research (PEER) Climate Action Webinar. The PEER Climate Action network regularly hosts webinars on climate research, with this particular session focused on climate risk assessment.

In a virtual workshop held on 22 January 2024, titled ‘Representation of adaptation and maladaptation in integrated assessment models (IAMs)’, participants engaged in critical discussions on the integration of climate impacts and adaptation strategies into integrated assessment modelling.