The Mediterranean is a climate change hotspot where warming and changes in the hydrological cycle are reshaping high-impact weather and climate extremes. Heatwaves, droughts, extreme precipitation and floods, wildfires, marine extremes, and compound and cascading events interact with exposure and vulnerability, generating complex environmental and societal risks.
Addressing these challenges requires connecting advances in observations, physical processes, modelling, prediction and climate projections with impact and risk assessment. Understanding exposure, vulnerability and adaptive capacity is equally essential for translating climate knowledge into effective early warning, decision-support and adaptation.
This session brings together physical and social sciences, technological developments and stakeholder perspectives to advance integrated understanding of Mediterranean extremes, their impacts and pathways to resilience.
We welcome contributions on:
• Physical processes, observations, modelling, attribution, prediction and projections of Mediterranean weather and climate extremes.
• Single, compound and cascading hazards and their interactions across spatial and temporal scales.
• Impacts, exposure, vulnerability and risk across health, water, agriculture, energy, ecosystems, infrastructure and urban areas.
• Methods integrating physical, environmental, social and economic dimensions of climate risk.
• Climate services, impact-based forecasting, early-warning systems and decision-support tools, including Earth observation, AI and digital twins.
• Adaptation and risk-reduction strategies, including nature-based solutions, and evidence of their effectiveness, limitations and trade-offs.
• Co-production of knowledge, stakeholder and citizen engagement, communication and capacity building.
We particularly encourage contributions bridging disciplines, sectors and Mediterranean regions, including approaches addressing inequalities in data, vulnerability and adaptive capacity.
Supported by the FutureMed COST Action (CA22162), this session welcomes contributions from within and beyond the network. It aims to strengthen transdisciplinary collaboration and connect climate science with societal needs, adaptation and resilience.