Scenarios Forum 2025 Programme

This page provides the most update information on the agenda for the Scenarios Forum 2025. We’ll be updating this page with more details regularly.

Alongside our three plenary sessions with invited panellists (to be announced soon), we will be running parallel sessions with presentations from submitted abstracts covering a range of topics including:

• Future directions for climate scenarios
• The Nature Futures Framework
• Health-related risks and vulnerability
• Climate equity and justice
• Post-growth futures
• Decarbonisation strategies
• Novel methods for developing scenarios

Session

Registration

Opening Session

Plenary: The future of scenarios in IPCC and IPBES

This session will focus on the potential role of scenarios in the coming IPCC Working Group reports; the role of scenarios for integration across disciplines and communities, and the potential connections to IPBES.

Networking & Coffee break

Lunch break

Plenary: Future population health and health systems under the SSPs

There is increasing evidence that people are suffering and dying from climate change, that risks will continue to rise for nearly all climate-sensitive health outcomes with additional climate change, and that health systems are vulnerable. The session will discuss extending the SSP narratives and quantifications for the health sector to inform more robust and useful projections of the magnitude and burden of future risks and of the effectiveness of policy responses under different climate and development pathways.

Coffee break

Parallel 1a

Break

Session

Parallel 2a

Coffee Break

Parallel 2b

Lunch break

Plenary: Scenarios community

Coffee Break

Parallel 2c

Break

Session

Parallel 3a

Coffee Break

Parallel 3b

Lunch break

Closing remarks