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Date: Monday, 23 November 2026
Time: 15:00 UTC | 16:00 CET | 10:00 ET
Format: Online webinar (Zoom)
Speaker: Cristina Deidda, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Organiser: RiskKAN – Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events
The RiskKAN Compound Events Working Group is organising a webinar entitled “Attributing recurrent and compound extremes to climate change: Why it matters”, featuring Cristina Deidda from Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
While the influence of climate change on individual extreme events is well established, its role in compound and recurrent extremes remains less explored. Such events, occurring simultaneously or in close succession, can lead to amplified impacts that are often underestimated by conventional attribution approaches.
The webinar will introduce a flexible methodology for attributing compound and recurrent extremes using binary representations of hazards. It will demonstrate how accounting for temporal dependencies between extreme events can increase estimated probability ratios, highlighting the importance of multivariate approaches for improving climate change attribution and informing adaptation strategies and policy decisions.
The topic is particularly relevant to the COMPASS project’s work on climate and impact attribution of complex extreme events.
Join the webinar: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/6035882275
More information: RiskKAN website
COMPASS aims to develop a harmonised, yet flexible, methodological framework for climate and impact attribution of various complex extremes that includes compound, sequences and cascading hazard events
The COMPASS project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101135481
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or of the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
