Conference Structure
8 Oct 2026
Day 1: Early Warning, Climate Science & Urban Futures
A high-level, single-track plenary establishing a shared scientific and policy baseline.
Day 1 brings senior leaders, scientists, policymakers, financiers, and practitioners together around climate science, early warning, urban risk, biodiversity resilience, infrastructure systems, and finance, ensuring all participants engage from a common foundation of evidence and framing.
9 Oct 2026
Day 2: From Climate Signals to System Stress: Hazards, Impacts, and Choices
Day 2 examines how atmospheric signals unfold into cascading impacts — moving from episodic shocks to chronic strain.
The morning focuses on acute water-related hazards, extreme rainfall, flooding, sea-level rise, and landslides, and how they disrupt transport, drainage, energy, and essential services.
The afternoon shifts to chronic climate pressures - rising heat, humidity, and air quality - and how these accumulate across public health, labour productivity, urban liveability, and equity.
As episodic and chronic risks intensify, the discussion turns to governance, finance, trade-offs, and societal choices: when to invest, what to prioritise, and how adaptation responsibilities are shared.
9 Oct 2026
Day 3: CARE2026 Scholars’ Forum
The final day transitions from conference dialogue to research architecture.
Designed as a structured working forum, the Scholars’ Forum creates space to interrogate assumptions surfaced in the previous two days, compare analytical approaches, identify knowledge gaps, and build cross-institutional collaboration.
The Research Exhibition runs alongside the Forum, fostering intergenerational exchange and supporting future research, data-sharing, and joint initiatives.