Research Group on Environment and Climate: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation, with a regional focus on the Alps, Andes and Himalayas. Based at @UZH_en
Switzerland
Joined March 2020
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Devastating news from Nepal. EClim’s Christian Huggel shares early scientific insights: a massive rock–ice avalanche likely triggered the destructive debris flood. Its causes are still under investigation, including any role of climate change.
Read here: shorturl.at/ssRCZ
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