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With global warming, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, while natural hazards are spreading wider and becoming more severe. Large-scale, compound and cascading disasters pose serious threats to human society, particularly to the safety of life and property. Research on climate change and disaster risks has emerged as a critical issue of global concern. Following the successful organization of the “1st International Conference on Climate Change and Disaster Risk” in Islamabad, Pakistan in October 2023, China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences (hereinafter referred to as CPJRC) plans to collaborate with UNESCO Chair for Mountain Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan to hold the “2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Disaster Risk” in Beijing in October 2025.

The 2nd International Conference will build upon the achievements of the first and focus on the theme of “Climate Change and Disaster Risk”. It will particularly explore the impact of climate change on natural hazards, the mechanisms of disaster occurrence and response measures, and disaster risk management and will aim to promote in-depth research on climate change and disaster risk, enhance social resilience in disaster prevention and mitigation. 

We cordially invite experts, policymakers, students, and community workers from both China and overseas to join us. Together, we will delve into the disaster effects of climate change and their adaptation and response strategies, exchange and share new understandings, theories, technologies, and experiences, and promote international collaboration in disaster prevention and mitigation efforts.

The relevant details of the Conference are hereby announced as follows:

I. Conference Name

The 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Disaster Risk

II. Theme & Topics

The theme of this conference will be “Climate Change and Disaster Risk”, focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:  

1. Topic 1: Climate Change and Its Disaster Effects

2. Topic 2: Natural Hazards: Formation, Movement and Disaster-causing Mechanisms

3. Topic 3: Disaster Risk Prevention and Mitigation Technologies

4. Topic 4: Natural Disaster Risk Management and Resilient Society

5. Topic 5: Extreme Disaster Events and Their Response

6. Topic 6: Regional Sustainable Development under Climate Change

III. Date & Venue 

1. Date: October 19-20, 2025 (Sunday to Monday)

2. Venue: Beijing, China

IV.  Organization 

1. Organized by:

• China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences (CPJRC)
• Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMHE)
• Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR)
• Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan (QAU)
• UNESCO Chair for Mountain Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

2. Co-organized by:

• International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
• Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) 
• Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)
• International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
• UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia (UNESCO Beijing)
• ECO Science Foundation
• International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR)
• National Disaster Management Authority, Pakistan (NDMA) 
• National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management, China (NINH) 
• Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR)
• Chinese Committee for ICIMOD (CNICIMOD)
• China Association for Disaster Prevention (CADP)
• China Association for Scientific Expedition (CASE)
• China Society of Cryospheric Science (CSCS, in preparation)
• Engineering Geology Committee, Geological Society of China
• Committee on Landslide and Debris Flow Prevention, China Society of Soil and Water Conservation 
• Committee on Natural Disaster and Integrated Risk Reduction, Geographical Society of China

V. Scientific Committees 

1. Chairmen 

• Prof. Dahe QIN, Academician of CAS, and Fellow of World Academy of Sciences, Professor of Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS 
• Prof. Deliang CHEN, Fellow of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Foreign Academician of CAS and Professor of Tsinghua University
• Prof. Peng CUI, Academician of CAS, Foreign Fellow of PAS, Professor of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research / Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS, and Chief Scientist of CPJRC

2. Members (in alphabetical order)

• Prof. Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Professor of Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
• Prof. Olivier BUZZI, Professor of Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical Science and Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia
• Prof. Jianping CHEN, Professor of Jilin University
• Prof. Yongjian DING, Professor of Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS, and Chairman of CSCS (in preparation) 
• Prof. Philippe Gourbesville, Professor of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), President of IAHR, and Professor of Universite Cote d’Azur
• Prof. Pema Gyamtsho, Director-General of ICIMOD
• Prof. Qasim Jan, Fellow and Former President of PAS, Foreign Academician of CAS, and Emeritus Professor of University of Peshawar, Pakistan
• Prof. Gretchen Kalonji, Former Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO, and Co-chair of ANSO-DRR
• Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director-General of UNESCO Beijing
• Prof. Yuanming LAI, Academician of CAS, and Professor and President of Chongqing Jiaotong University 
• Prof. Qiuhua LIANG, Foreign Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Professor of Loughborough University, UK, and Holder of UNESCO Chair on Informatics and Multi-hazard Risk Reduction
• Prof. Suju LI, Professor of National Disaster Reduction Center, Ministry of Emergency Management, China
• Prof. Josephine K W Ngaira, Professor of Geography (Climatology) in the School of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya
• Prof. Alessandro Pasuto, Professor and Former Director-General of Institute of Hydrogeological Hazard Prevention, Italian Research Council, and Director-General (Italian side) of Sino-Italian Joint Laboratory on Geological and Hydrological Hazards
• Prof. Jianbing PENG, Academician of CAS, and Professor of School of Geological Engineering and Geomatics, Chang’an University
• Prof. Atta-ur Rahman, Professor of University of Peshawar, Pakistan, and President of Pakistan Geographical Association
• Prof. Rajib Shaw, Professor of Keio University, Japan
• Prof. Peijun SHI, Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director-General of Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management and Ministry of Education, Director-General of Expert Committee of China National Commission for Disaster Reduction, and Professor and Director-General of Catastrophic Risk Research Center of Beijing Normal University
• Prof. Zhenming SHI, Professor and Vice President of Tongji University
• Prof. Fubao SUN, Professor and Director-General of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS
• Prof. Christopher Tremewan, Professor and Former Vice President of University of Auckland, and Former Secretary-General of Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)
• Prof. Huiming TANG, Professor of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), and Vice President of International Association of Engineering Geology and Environment (IAEG)
• Prof. Charles W W Ng, Foreign Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Professor and Vice President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
• Prof. Fawu WANG, Foreign Fellow of Japanese Academy of Engineering, Professor of Tongji University, and Holder of UNESCO-Chair on Geo-Environmental Disaster Reduction, and Chairman of ICGdR
• Prof. Gonghui WANG, Professor and Chief of Research Center for Landslide Risk Cognition and Reduction, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, and Chair of JTC1 (Natural slopes and landslides) of FedIGS
• Prof. Huijun WANG, Academician of CAS, Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences, Director of National Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Response to Change, and Chairman of China Climate Research Committee
• Prof. Cees van Westen, Professor of Multi-Hazard Risk Dynamics at the Earth System Analysis Department of the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Twente University, Netherlands, and Former Director of the United Nations University - ITC Centre on Geoinformation for Disaster Risk Management 
• Prof. Jun XIA, Academician of CAS, Professor of Wuhan University, and Former President of International Water Resources Association
• Prof. Qiang XU, Professor and President of Chengdu University of Technology
• Prof. Saini YANG, Professor of Beijing Normal University, and Executive Director of IRDR
• Prof. Siquan YANG, Professor and Director-General of National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management 
• Prof. Yueping YIN, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Chief Scientist of Technical Guidance Center for Geo-Hazards Prevention, Ministry of Natural Resources 
• Prof. Jianyun ZHANG, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Foreign Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, and Professor of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute
• Prof. Renhe ZHANG, Academician of CAS, and Professor of Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University

(To be added)

VI. Organizing Committees (in Alphabetical Order)

1. Chairmen

• Prof. Shichang KANG, Professor and Director-General of IMHE
• Prof. Lijun SU, Professor of IMHE, and Director-General of CPJRC

2. Committee members

• Prof. Tianhua HONG, Executive Director of CPJRC 
• Prof. Yonggang GE, Professor and Director of S & T Office of IMHE
• Dr. Yu LEI, Associate Professor of IMHE, and Deputy Director of CPJRC 
• Prof. Mumtaz Shah, Professor and Chairman, Dept of Earth Sciences, and Project Leader of CPJRC, QAU
• Prof. Gongdan ZHOU, Professor of IMHE, and Secretary-General of ANSO-DRR

3. Secretariat

• Secretary General:  Prof. Tianhua HONG, Dr. Yu LEI
• Deputy Secretary-Generals: Prof. Mumtaz Shah
• Members: Ms. Wanhong LI, Ms. Qing ZENG, Dr. Fenghuan SU, Ms. Lu GAN, and Ms. Anni LIU

VII. Registration and Fees

Experts and scholars who intend to participate in the Conference please visit the conference website to register online and submit abstracts: https://ccdr2025.casconf.cn . 

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Payment can be made online or on-site via Alipay or WeChat Pay.

VIII. Contacts

Dr. Yu LEI, leiyu@imde.ac.cn, 18581893510

Ms. Wanhong LI, liwanhong@imde.ac.cn, 15008213087

Ms. Qing ZENG, zengqing@imde.ac.cn, 17882052881

Dr. Fenghuan SU, fhsu@imde.ac.cn, 18602812753

More details of the conference will be released in the subsequent 2nd Announcement.