Online webinar: Managing transboundary climate risks: From shared risks to joint preparedness – Nordic Climate Adaptation Seminar Series

Climate change impacts increasingly across national borders, affecting shared ecosystems, infrastructure systems, supply chains, and economic activities across the Nordic region. Managing these transboundary and cascading risks requires stronger coordination, shared knowledge, and practical collaboration across countries and sectors.

This webinar focuses on challenges that the Nordic countries have identified and examples on how transboundary climate risks are taken into preparedness considerations — and how this experience can be scaled, shared, and strengthened.

Date: 10 December 2026, 10:00-15:00 CET (program of about 3-3,5 hours, including lunch break, TBC)
Format: Online webinar, register here

Objectives

• Improve understanding of transboundary climate risks and their implications for Nordic societies and economies.
• Exchange knowledge, experiences, and good practices for identifying and managing transboundary and cascading climate risks.
• Identify key knowledge gaps and challenges in managing transboundary climate risks.
• Strengthen dialogue on how to ensure better preparedness regarding transboundary risks in different key sectors, such as food chains, infrastructure and logistics, finance and public governance
• Develop proposals for joint Nordic action and collaboration

Target audience:

The seminar is aimed at: National ministries and climate adaptation authorities, Civil protection and disaster preparedness agencies, Regional and local planning authorities, Researchers and adaptation experts, NGOs and stakeholder organisations and Private sector actors working with risk management, infrastructure, and resilience

Topics include

• Transboundary and systemic climate risks in finance, investment, and corporate decision-making
• Climate shocks transmitted through global supply chains and their implications for Nordic food security
• Cascading risks across interconnected energy, transport, communications, and digital infrastructure
• Governance of transboundary climate risks, including responsibilities across sectors, institutions, and jurisdictions
• Public-private cooperation in assessing and managing shared climate risks
• Opportunities for joint Nordic preparedness, knowledge sharing, and practical action

Nordic Climate Adaptation Programme (NCAP) in collaboration with Sweco

Sweco is leading designing and implementing a series of seminars that provide a dedicated forum for Nordic stakeholders to jointly address complex and cross-cutting adaptation challenges, share experiences and best practices, and strengthen mutual understanding across sectors and governance levels.

The Nordic Climate Adaptation Programme (NCAP) 2025–2027, under the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) aims to strengthen climate change adaptation efforts across the Nordic region, by establishing a platform for cooperation, enhance knowledge exchange and produce strategic policy advice. The programme is grounded in the Nordic countries’ shared ambition to enhance resilience and sustainability in response to climate change and biodiversity loss. Within this framework, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has initiated a procurement for a series of seminars and/or workshops to support the program’s goal of strengthening co-operation on climate adaptation by establishing fora for facilitated dialogue, knowledge sharing, and networking across the Nordic region.

For further information, contact:  

Susanna Sepponen, +358 40 1380067, susanna.sepponen@sweco.fi
Silje Lund Sørland, silje.lundsorland@sweco.no​
Frida Lindqvist, frida.lindqvist@sweco.se ​
Merika Mattila, merika.mattila@sweco.fi