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New hazard maps for #Blatten mark a key step toward re-settlement after recent rock slope failures. Christian Huggel highlights the need for inclusive governance for sustainable outcomes. 🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/eHtqE #ClimateAdaptation #NaturalHazards

Relocation as an adaptation strategy to natural hazards in Switzerland: new study by Flurina Dobler, Samuel Weber & Christian Huggel offers practical guidelines for this complex process. 🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/zHm6r

At our recent retreat in the beautiful Engadin mountains, EClim members from 🇮🇷🇵🇰🇳🇵🇳🇿🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇪🇺🇸🇨🇭reflected on: 🧠 Mental health: 🔹 Self-worth & social connections 🤖 Working with AI: 🔹 Balancing performance with preserving human skills Red the post here: shorturl.at/KqnPV

📢 New paper out in Environmental Research Communications! Saeid Vaghefi & co-authors use AI to assess the decision-usefulness of corporate nature-related disclosures 🍃 🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/8P2EZ

📢 PhD Opportunity in Nepal! The ReCAP project is looking for 2 motivated Nepali students to pursue a PhD at Tribhuvan University and help build resilience in the Himalayas. 🌋 Focus: Multi-Hazard Risk & Early Warning in Koshi Province Post: shorturl.at/kyhPF

🚀 Say goodbye to crawler chaos! EClim's Saeid Vaghefi launches CrawlStudio, a unified Python tool with 4 powerful backends for smart, fast, and flexible web scraping. 💻 One API → Multiple Engines 🔗 GitHub: lnkd.in/eW7cTQbh Post: shorturl.at/KpLuc

🌍 AI for the planet 🌍 At the AI + Environment Summit, EClim’s Saeid Vaghefi spoke on how AI & satellite data drive long-term climate resilience. Also joined a panel on #ClimateNLP exploring corporate transparency in climate action. 🔗 shorturl.at/AnzXZ

📉 Greenwashing may cost more than you think. New research by EClim’s Saeid Vaghefi & colleagues shows the Social Cost of Greenwashing could exceed 2% of global GDP annually. 🧠 Trust & info quality matter as much as carbon pricing. 🔗 shorturl.at/Ja1JD

At #IMC2025, a special session on the #Blatten glacier disaster brought together experts from across Europe. 🌍 Nearly 20 presentations showcased cutting-edge research on monitoring, modeling & climate attribution — just 4 months after the event. Post: shorturl.at/AWx6T

Field-based learning in action! UZH students spent 3 days in the Matter Valley 🇨🇭assessing debris flow risks, simulating hazards with RAMMS, and engaging with experts in St. Niklaus & Randa. Bridging theory and practice in mountain hazard management! Post: shorturl.at/fyQ9Q

Blatten 🇨🇭 made headlines but what about Dharali 🇮🇳? In 2025 a devastating monsoon-triggered disaster struck the Indian Himalayas, with >50 lives likely lost. No early warnings. No monitoring. Long way to go for #EW4All in vulnerable mountain regions 🔗shorturl.at/6Vh2O

🚀 ParseStudio is here! A modular Python library to unify 5 top PDF parsers—Docling, PyMuPDF, LlamaParse, Claude & GPT-4—under one tool. Built for RAG apps, legal docs, research & more. By @sureal_ai & EClim’s Saeid Vaghefi. Read the post here: shorturl.at/9px9M

🏆 AskWMO wins @RMetS Innovation Award! This AI tool—co-developed by EClim’s Saeid Vaghefi—makes trusted climate info more accessible & traceable using advanced NLP. Try it 👉 chatwmo.app Full post: shorturl.at/v2SgO

🌍 New AI-powered tool by @WMO helps track global investments in early warning systems—turning scattered data into actionable insight. EClim’s Saeid Vaghefi contributes to this effort, aligning tech with impact. Read the full post: shorturl.at/YZCsF

🌍💡 From AI in virtual fashion to climate finance! At #ZalandoTechTalks, EClim's Saeid Vaghefi explored how AI is transforming #ClimateFinance through agentic retrieval & reasoning. Explore more from his lab 👉 sureal.ai

Plans for #Blatten's reconstruction revealed: 🔹 CHF 100M in public funding 🔹 CHF 320M insurance payouts 🔹 CHF 42M for hazard protection As EClim’s C. Huggel notes, more community participation is key in rebuilding a resilient future. Full post: shorturl.at/qZtv1

🌍 GLOFCA just launched its new platform! EClim’s Simon Allen, Laura Niggli & Christian Huggel support GLOF risk reduction across Central Asia via early warning, local capacity & regional action. 🔗 glofca.org/en

How can we build better early warning in the #Cryosphere? 🏔️📡 EClim’s Simon Allen joined @StimsonCenter to share lessons from recent glacier disasters in 🇨🇭 & 🇳🇵 and the future of mountain DRM. 🎥 Watch here: shorturl.at/Bz32j

💧 Water scarcity is rising in 🇨🇭—what will it cost? EClim’s S. Vaghefi & V. Muccione contribute to a new #NCCSImpacts study on economic effects & adaptation options for climate-driven water stress. Full publication here: shorturl.at/vdRAI

From coffee ☕ to cutting-edge #ClimateAI 🌍 EClim’s S. Vaghefi is part of @UZH_en's SUREAL Lab, behind tools like #ChatClimate & #Climinator—used to fight greenwashing & boost accountability in sustainable finance. 🔗 sureal.ai