CLIMATE ADAPTATION & RESILIENCE CONFERENCE 2026 (CARE2026)
8-10 October 2026
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
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Climate risk is no longer a distant projection. It is reshaping how societies function.
Extreme rainfall is intensifying. Heatwaves are lengthening. Compound events are becoming more frequent. Urban systems — transport, drainage, power, health, housing, and finance — are increasingly exposed to stresses they were not designed to withstand. Across Asia and around the world, adaptation is no longer optional. It is operational.
Building on previous CARE conferences, CARE2026 marks the third gathering in the series, an international platform dedicated to advancing climate adaptation and resilience through interdisciplinary dialogue and practical engagement.
The conference brings together governments, scientists, infrastructure operators, financial leaders, insurers, industry players, and community representatives to examine how climate risks cascade across interconnected systems, and how risk intelligence can guide preparedness, inform investment, strengthen decision-making, and enable coordinated adaptation across sectors.
CARE2026 is deliberately structured to reflect how climate risk unfolds in reality, from scientific insight to cascading system stress, and from system stress to societal and economic choices. It aims to strengthen collective understanding, clarify trade-offs, and support more informed and coordinated pathways toward climate adaptation.
CARE2026 Conference Structure
Day 2 traces how climate signals unfold into cascading impacts, moving from episodic shocks to chronic strain.
The morning focuses on water-related risks (extreme rainfall, flooding, sea-level rise, and landslides) and how they overwhelm urban systems and trigger cascading failures.
The afternoon turns to chronic stress (rising heat, humidity, and air quality) and how these pressures accumulate across public health, labour productivity, energy demand, urban liveability, and equity.
As episodic and chronic risks intensify, the conversation shifts toward governance, finance, trade-offs, and societal choices: when to invest, what to prioritise, and who bears the cost.
Day 3 shifts from conference dialogue to research architecture.
Designed as a structured working forum rather than a traditional academic event, the Scholars’ Forum creates space to interrogate assumptions surfaced in the previous two days, compare analytical frameworks, identify conceptual and empirical gaps, and build cross-institutional collaborations.
A curated research exhibition runs in parallel, strengthening intergenerational exchange and supporting future joint research, data-sharing, and grant pathways.
Hong Kong as a Platform for Practice
While global in scope, CARE2026 is rooted in Hong Kong, a dense coastal metropolis exposed to intensifying climate extremes and deeply interconnected with the Greater Bay Area and Southeast Asia.
Hong Kong operates advanced early warning systems, world-class engineering and slope management, sophisticated infrastructure networks, and a growing green finance and insurance sector. It offers a living platform where scientific insight, operational systems, financial markets, and governance intersect.
CARE sets a structured conference for Hong Kong’s public and private sectors to share their practices, lessons, and forward-looking ideas in tackling climate challenges, while connecting local experience to regional and international dialogue.
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