Events

2025 Events

Transdisciplinarity and Colonialism in Climate Education

This year, the My Climate Risk Education Working Group (EWG), together with the My Climate Risk - Ateneo de Manila University Regional Hub (MCR-ADMU) and My Climate Risk - University of Cape Town, are organizing a webinar and workshop entitled "Transdisciplinarity and Colonialism in Climate Education." This session will explore the link between these two concepts, posing an epistemological question on transdisciplinarity.

Interested parties may register directly by clicking this link, or through this link: linktr.ee/MCR_ADMU. Registered participants will be able to enter the Zoom room to view and participate in the session.

For more details, please see the concept note and programme accessible here.

Call for Submissions: MCR Special Issue in ERCL Journal

We are delighted to share with you that our colleague are inviting contributions for the MCR Special Issue, part of the open access journal Environmental Research: Climate (ERCL).

Interested contributors may submit their articles through the online submission form: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ercl-iop

The collection is open for submissions until 31 December 2026.

Learn more about the MCR Special Issue here: https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/ercl-250113-756

NOTE: Papers submitted within 2025 will have their Article Processing Charges waived.

2024 Events

Laudato Si’ Week Discussion

On 22 May 2024, as part of the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability’s Laudato Si’ Week celebrations following the theme “Seeds of Hope,” the MCR-Ateneo Regional Hub hosted an online event “‘Climate Voices on the Ground: Perspectives from Different Sectors,’ A Laudato Si’ Week Discussion.” The panel discussion featured the two bookends of the Laudato Si’ Goals: Goal 1, Response to the Cry of the Earth, and Goal 7, Community Resilience and Empowerment.

As part of the Climate Voices webinar series, the event focused on how communities and their stakeholders make sense of their experience of climate change, and what their climate information needs are. The session’s concept note and programme may be found HERE.

The replay and highlights of the session may be accessed at the following page:

• 'Climate Voices on the Ground: Perspectives from Different Sectors,' A Laudato Si' Week Discussion

2024 Webinar Series

From April to May 2024, the MCR-Ateneo Regional Hub hosted two webinar series: “Climate Voices on the Ground: Perspectives from Different Sectors” and “Climate Research ‘As If People Mattered’,” which were first launched in 2022 and which had iterations in 2023. The 2024 series explored the intersections of climate and advocacies, media and communication, gender and law and economics. The webinar series’ concept note and programme may be found HERE.

Both series aim to highlight different perspectives and drive discussions and insights from different communities, sectors, and experiences to achieve more actionable climate research. As two complementary series, Climate Voices aims to give participants a better understanding of the different contexts and experiences of climate change, while Climate Research aims to give participants examples of how to consider these in research and management.

The replays and highlights of both series may be accessed at the following:

• Climate Voices on the Ground: Perspectives from Different Sectors
• Climate Research 'As If People Mattered'

2023 Events

WCRP Open Science Conference (WCRP OSC 2023)

From 23-27 October, the WCRP welcomed delegates from around the world to the Open Science Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference is held decennially, and this year it bore the theme "Advancing climate science for a sustainable future."

At the end of the conference, delegates contributed to crafting the Kigali Declaration, which will set the tone for the conduct of research on climate change in this crucial decade.

My Climate Risk Scientific Steering Group Co-Chairs Dr Regina Rodrigues and Dr Theodore Shepherd wrote a brief reflection on MCR's role in the conference, which may be read HERE.

Can We Do Better? Climate Science and Colonialism

On 5 October, members of the MCR-Ateneo Regional Hub collaborated with colleagues from the MCR Education Working Group for their series on climate and colonialism. The series consisted of two sessions, with MCR-Ateneo's Focal Point Dr Charlotte Kendra Gotangco Gonzales serving as host and co-organizer of the first session. The first session also featured Hub Collaborator Dr Nikki Carsi Cruz as one of the speakers.

View the sessions HERE.

MCR Brown Bag Session: Research As Care

On 23 May 2023, as part of the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability's Laudato Si' Week celebrations, the MCR-Ateneo Regional Hub hosted a hybrid event, the MCR Brown Bag Session: "Research As Care." The session was an interdisciplinary discussion among the Hub's Collaborators to reflect on what it means for climate research to be people-centered and a form of care, to identify case studies or approaches that may be considered as "research as care." Guided by the Jesuit characteristic of cura personalis, or care for the whole person, this event was also aligned with the Laudato Si' encyclical on Care for Our Common Home, and Laudato Si' Goals 1 and 2, Response to the Cry of the Earth and Response to the Cry of the Poor, respectively. The session's concept note and programme may be found HERE.

The highlights of the session may be accessed at the following page:

• MCR Brown Bag Session: Research As Care

Open Climate Science webinar

On 15 February 2023, the MCR-Ateneo Regional Hub hosted a webinar, “Open Climate Science: A Panel Discussion on the Meanings and Practice of Open Science,” to discuss, articulate, and navigate the tensions of the meanings and practice of open science in addressing climate change, especially in local contexts. The webinar’s concept note and programme may be found HERE.

The replay of the webinar may be accessed at the following page:

• Open Climate Science: A Panel Discussion on the Meanings and Practice of Open Science

2022 Webinar Series

From October to December 2022, the MCR-Ateneo Regional Hub hosted two webinar series, to share perspectives and approaches to do climate science, communication, and risk management, which draw from “Small is Beautiful.” The webinar series’ concept note and programme may be found HERE.

The first webinar series, “Climate Voices on the Ground: Perspectives from Different Sectors,” strove to have a better understanding of local contexts and experiences of climate change, and the requirements of decision-makers. You may read more about the series HERE.

Complementing the Climate Voices series, the second webinar series, “Climate Research ‘As If People Mattered’,” explored how the different contexts and experiences of climate change are considered, and how we may apply these in research design and management plans. You may read more about the series HERE.

The replays of both series may be accessed at the following:

• Climate Voices on the Ground: Perspectives from Different Sectors
• Climate Research “As If People Mattered”

The Hub is also proud to share that these events have also been featured on the WCRP News Article, "WCRP 'My Climate Risk' Lighthouse Activity is glowing and growing." The news article may be found HERE.

Events hosted by the other Asia Pacific hubs include:

• Climate Risk and Uncertainty in India hosted by the Himalayan University Consortium, 12 May 2022
• Developing a ‘storylines’ approach for regional climate change information hosted by the Australian NESP Climate Systems Hub, 22 February 2022.

Are you interested in sharing your experience of climate change and climate risk? Would you like your story to be featured on our website?

We are compiling stories from all sectors and from all ages that highlight our varied personal experiences of climate change, our perceptions of climate risk. These can be in the form of essays, creative work, short videos, etc. - you are free to express yourself! 

How have we experienced climate change? What questions might we have about climate? Is there information we wish we had in order to make better decisions - be it personal lifestyle decisions or public policy? Where do we think we are heading? What concrete actions or solutions can be push forward? What are our projections and visions of the future?  

Our aim is to build an understanding from the ground up of how climate change has touched our lives and how we decide ways forward. If you are interested in having your work featured, please contact us through mcr@ateneo.edu.