Climate risks do not occur in isolation. They can interact and spread across environmental, social and economic systems, creating impacts that are difficult to predict and manage. As climate change intensifies, there is a growing need to understand how these risks arise, combine, and affect people and places.
This cross-journal Collection focuses on complex climate risks, including cascading impacts, compound events, and tipping-point risks. It brings together research on how to reduce vulnerability and build resilience across sectors and scales, from facilities and cities to regional and global systems. The research explores a range of responses, including adaptation, decision-support tools, governance, finance, and climate justice.
Communications Sustainability, Communications Earth & Environment, Nature Water, Nature Communications, npj Climate Action, and Scientific Reports invite submissions that improve understanding of complex climate risks and how they can be managed.
Submission deadline 17 April 2027.
Editor
Ramit Debnath, PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dr. Ramit Debnath is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) at the University of Cambridge. His research leverages human-centric AI, computational social science and systems thinking to understand climate risks and their social tipping mechanisms.