That moment has arrived: every year, around 20,000 geoscientists from all over the world gather in Vienna, Austria, to share and discuss cutting-edge scientific discoveries. The 2026 European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly will take place from 3 to 8 May in a hybrid format, with CLIMAAX insights showcased in two presentations and additional results shared through an extensive poster session.
Monday, 4 May, 15:05–15:15
Mariam Saleh Khan (Climate Analytics & Weather and Climate Services, Islamabad) will give a presentation titled “Integrating Loss and Damage into Climate Risk Assessment Frameworks: Evidence, Methodological Gaps, and a Pathway for Pacific Small Island Developing States“. This working paper reviews major global, regional, national, and multilateral CRA frameworks, including CLIMAAX, through the lens of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), with a particular focus on their suitability for identifying residual risks, adaptation limits, and economic and non-economic loss and damage.
Tuesday, 5 May, 14:30–14:40
Majid Niazkar (CMCC) will give a talk titled “Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Options Assessment: Application of CLIMAAX toolbox for Genoa“. He will present how three CLIMAAX workflows were applied to the city of Genoa, which is regularly affected by flooding, intense rainfall, and coastal flooding. The talk will show how the CLIMAAX toolbox can support cities in assessing climate risks and exploring practical adaptation options to strengthen their resilience to multiple climate hazards. In particular, flooding hazard-specific risk outputs were further translated into a spatially explicit, data-driven assessment of public and private adaptation infrastructure options at the city scale.
Wednesday, 6 May, 8:35–8:45
Mathilde Wilkens (Adelphi) will present “Standardized Climate Risk Assessment in Europe – developing a monitoring system for evaluating inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact using key performance indicators“. The presentation introduces a new climate risk assessment monitoring framework developed within the CLIMAAX methodological framework and toolbox. The framework is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of CRA applications and their downstream impacts, and is applied across participating regions using mixed methods, including online surveys and semi-structured interviews. It provides a systematic way to monitor CRA applications across diverse socio-demographic contexts, climatic conditions, and institutional capacities.
Thursday, 7 May, 16:15–18:00
Valentin Schalk (GeoSphere Austria) will display the poster “Modelling climate change impacts on crop productivity and the role of hedgerows in mitigating drought risk in Lower Austria“. The assessment builds on the CLIMAAX drought risk workflow, which integrates climate variables, soil moisture dynamics, and evapotranspiration into a process-based crop production model. For its application in Lower Austria, the workflow was adapted to include region-specific information such as irrigation infrastructure, soil characteristics, and dominant production systems. This enables drought risk to be assessed not only as a function of climate forcing, but also in the context of local agronomic and socio-economic conditions.
Friday, 8 May, 14:00–15:45
The poster “Quantifying Resilience: Applying the Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology (PCRAM) to Agritourism“, presented by Annika Maier (Risklayer & CEDIM), outlines the initial steps toward applying the Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology to quantitatively assess and enhance resilience in the agriculture and tourism sectors, which are highly vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards such as hail and other extreme events. As part of this preliminary study, various risk assessment methods, software tools, and frameworks, such as CLIMAAX and MYRIAD-EU, are reviewed for their application to the agritourism sector, which is highly influenced by a wide range of hazards, both climate-driven and geophysical.