Eighteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece + Online
20th to 22nd April 2026
Rhodes, Greece
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Place: University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece + Online
Format: In-Person (Location) and Online (Asynchronous Content)
Dates: 20-22 April 2026
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PLENARY SPEAKER
Phoebe Koundouri, Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; Research Professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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SPECIAL FOCUS: Unseen Sustainability: Addressing Hidden Risks to Long-Term Wellbeing for All
Climate change has become the predominant focus of environmental discussions. However, the current discourse often suffers from "carbon myopia," a "carbon tunnel vision," overlooking the interconnected and equally pressing challenges that threaten the stability of our natural systems. Beyond the critical issues of biodiversity loss and freshwater depletion, a broader range of urgent threats exists, which are less visible but pose severe risks to long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability).
While there are a range of both hidden social and environmental issues, this year's theme highlights these overlooked yet urgent environmental challenges. In turn we emphasize the need for a more holistic approach to organizational decision-making, including government and corporate strategies to include all these foundational issues as hard parameters. To secure long-term wellbeing for all, it is crucial to expand our focus beyond carbon emissions and integrate these hidden risks into our organizational frameworks, ensuring that the health of all environmental systems are respected and addressed if we are to achieve a state where our collective wellbeing is assured.
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CONFERENCE THEMES
Theme 1: The Nature of Evidence
Theme 2: Assessing Impacts in Diverse Ecosystems
Theme 3: Human Impacts and Responsibility
Theme 4: Technical, Political, and Social Responses.
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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES
The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses establishes an interdisciplinary forum to examine evidence of climate change. Addressing differential effects across regions, the journal explores how climate change impacts ecosystems - from glacial and coastal systems to coral reefs - as well as marginalized communities confronting shifting shorelines, crises of food supply, water availability, and health. It calls for research offering adaptive responses and pathways to build resilient societies and economies. The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses engages with questions of scale - local, national, and global - and seeks to integrate science, economics, politics, sociology, and ethics into discussions of our shared planetary future.
Founded: 2009
ISSN: 1835-7156 (Print)
ISSN: 2833-4140 (Online)
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/2015200308
Frequency: Biannual
Language: English
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ABOUT US
Founded in 2009, the Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network is brought together by a common concern for the science of, and social responses to, climate change.
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RELATED CONFERENCES
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Web address: https://on-climate.com/2026-conference
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