Background 

Climate change is a relevant driver of emerging risks. While a broad range of forward-looking studies and reports examine the impact of climate change on food security, future challenges for food and feed safety, plant and animal health and nutritional quality are usually not investigated in depth.

EFSA recently completed the CLEFSA (CLimate change and Emerging risks for Food SAfety) project for developing and testing new methodologies for the identification, characterisation and analysis of emerging risks linked with climate change. A report on the project was published on 25 June 2020.

The CLEFSA project has contributed to the identification and characterisation of the overall interacting effects of climate change, highlighting the uncertainty in the current understanding of how climate change affects the areas in EFSA’s remit. Given the complexity and interdisciplinarity of the subject, we would like to engage and cooperate with a wide variety of stakeholders on this issue.

Objectives of the meeting

The virtual info session aims to:

1. Disseminate the CLEFSA report to a wider audience.
2. Identify opportunities for promoting synergies across related activities.

Structure of the meeting

Plenary session and breakout sessions focusing on different aspects of the project. You will be able to indicate in the registration tool which break-out session you prefer to follow.

Who should attend?

The meeting is targeted at all interested stakeholders. 

On-line registrations

The online registration form will be made available shortly.

Please note that registration may close once the maximum number of 500 participants is reached or, at the latest, by 30 September 2020.

Practical information

The meeting will be held virtually. All participants will join remotely and be given the opportunity to ask questions after each presentation in a series. Questions can be submitted in writing in a dedicated tool.

Questions collected online will be monitored and grouped by moderators who will share them with the chair.

Queries that cannot be addressed during the meeting will be answered in writing after the event.

All the questions will be included and addressed in a report to be published after the event.

Contact

Do not hesitate contact EFSA with any questions you may have.