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Climate crisis and systemic risks: Lessons Learned from COVID-19

 

Within a short period of time, the COVID-19 (Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has fundamentally changed our lives worldwide with massive impacts on all fundamental systems: from health and well-being to economic, financial and political systems, food production and supply chains, to education, work and social life. It demonstrates the systemic nature of risk in a highly interconnected world challenging existing governance mechanisms. Thus societies need to learn and develop new approaches of dealing with these systemic risks.
Climate change related systemic risks have the potential to be an even greater threat than those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both crises need a global approach, both threaten reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and postponement makes the situation worse. In either case the poor are disproportionally affected. As with COVID-19 communication, fake news and social media play an important role, and science, technology and governance are crucial for societal resilience in face of climate change systemic risks.
We want to debate if the systemic risk awareness gained by COVID-19 is transferable to systemic climate risks – and vice versa? What are the lessons learned in both directions and what conclusions can be drawn?

 

Programme

Programme download here (version 19.5.2023) 
 

Speakers

Cornelia Betsch (Universität Erfurt), Fiona Charlson (University of Queensland), Carina Fearnley (University College London), Tatjana Filatova (Delft University of Technology), Matthias Garschagen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Ian Goldin (University of Oxford), Michael Hagenlocher (United Nations University), Stephane Hallegatte (World Bank), Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol), Reinhard Mechler (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Ilan Noy (Victoria University of Wellington), Michael Puma (Columbia University), Markus Reichstein (Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena), Aromar Revi (Indian Institute for Human Settlements), Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo), Cass Sunstein (Harvard University), Zinta Zommers (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) 
Moderation: Emily Wilkinson (ODI) 

 

Registration

From June 21 – 23, 2023 we will meet in Hanover at the Herrenhausen Palace for the Herrenhausen Conference “Climate crisis and systemic risks: Lessons Learned from COVID-19″  

 

Call for posters

You now have the possibility to apply to present a poster (no travel grant involved!) in one of the the systemic risk related themes that will be covered during the conference: 1. Behavioural & Communication Sciences 2. Impacts of Climate Extremes 3. Critical Infrastructures 4. Data Sciences 5. DRR 6. Economics and Transport Chains 7. Food Systems 8. Governance and Law 9. Health & Psychology 10. Systemic Risks.

Please submit your poster abstract here: https://call.volkswagenstiftung.de/submission?id=161

Your application should contain the following

    • Title of your poster
    • Short abstract of the work (not more than 2500 characters)
    • Which themes of the conference (see below) are closest to your area of interest? (max. 3 themes):

1. Behavioural & Communication Sciences
2. Impacts of Climate Extremes
3. Critical Infrastructures
4. Data Sciences
5. DRR
6. Economics and Transport Chains
7. Food Systems
8. Governance and Law
9. Health & Psychology
10. Systemic Risks

 

Our Steering Committee

 

Contact

Please contact Marleen Triebiger (MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany) , if you have any questions in regards to the organization of the conference.

 

 

Herrenhausen Conference is funded by

 
 

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – 427307986