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On 23 October 2025, the team of the BMBF junior research group TRANSCEND, led by Prof. Matthias Garschagen, held its final workshop in Jakarta, one of the two case study cities, alongside Mumbai.

As part of a research cooperation visit, Prof. Dr. Matthias Garschagen and Dr. Deepal Doshi were invited to deliver a talk at the Melbourne Climate Futures Seminar Series on 09 October 2025.

Prof. Garschagen and Dr. Doshi participated in the Second Lead Author Meeting in Mombasa, Kenya from 21.-25. July 2025 for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Mombasa, Kenya.

Munich, 29 October 2025 — The International Climate Resilience Conference 2025 (iCARE25) concluded successfully this week at the Catholic Academy in Bavaria (Kardinal-Wendel-Haus) in Munich.

Adopted at the Closing Plenary of the International Climate Resilience Conference (iCARE 2025), Munich, 29 October 2025

The Chair of Human Geography and Human Environment Relations presented its work in a number of talks at this year’s Adaptation Futures conference in Christchurch (New Zealand), 13-16 October 2025.

We are very happy to invite you to a spontaneous talk by Terry Cannon this Thursday, October 30, from 10.30 to 12 pm @Richard Wagner Str. 10, room D116 on "Intersecting injustices and competing narratives for climate change."

This workshop was successfully held on July 31–August 1, 2025, in Munich, organized by Dr. Olabisi S. Obaitor, Department of Geography, LMU Munich in collaboration with IAHS Urban Water Working Group.

Members of the HER (Human-Environment Research) team at LMU recently participated in the influential Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures, hosted by the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and the University of Leeds from 16-18 July 2025.

International Climate Resilience Conference at LMU Munich, Germany, 26-29 October 2025

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held the First Lead Author Meeting in Osaka, Japan from 10. – 14. March 2025 for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

A new research project, COAST-SCAPES, has recently been approved for funding under the EU Mission Adaptation to Climate Change. Titled “Rethinking COASTal landSCAPES with climate-resilient interventions: systemic land-to-sea solutions”

Date: July 31 - August 01, 2025 Venue: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Südliches Schlossrondell 23, 80638 München

Prof. Matthias Garschagen has been appointed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) within the Upcoming Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

Für die Mobilität der Zukunft setzt die Landeshauptstadt München u.a. auf die Stärkung der flächeneffizienten und klimaschonenden Fuß- und Radmobilität.

The International Workshop on Urbanization and Sustainable Water Management was successfully held on November 4–5, 2024, at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in Munich.

Our ERC project STORIES at the Department of Geography, LMU Munich, is calling for applications for a research position on modeling flood resilience.

This paper unpacks how informal social protection can complement formal social protection systems, particularly to buffer climate change impacts.

This publication presents an overview of progress and gaps in climate change adaptation in coastal cities around the world.

Prof. Matthias Garschagen and team members attended a project workshop in Beijing and the LMU-ChAN Scientific Forum in Shanghai Reported by Mr. Wenhan Feng