Translating Nature and Climate into Risk: Data, Measurement, and Decision-Making
Call for papers and registration now open for an interdisciplinary workshop
OVERVIEW
Nature‑ and climate‑related risks have rapidly become defining challenges for organizations, regulators, and financial markets. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation increasingly interact in ways that generate complex and uncertain risk profiles that cut across corporate strategy, financial stability, and public policy. Efforts to govern these challenges rely heavily on data, metrics, and disclosure frameworks that seek to translate biophysical processes into decision-relevant management metrics. Initiatives such as the Taskforce on Climate‑related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Taskforce on Nature‑related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) illustrate both the growing momentum behind this agenda and the difficulties involved in rendering climate and nature information “decision useful” for heterogeneous stakeholders.
This call for papers invites contributions that examine how climate and nature are turned into risk objects, metrics, and managerial practices. We welcome work that explores the organizational, epistemic, and political consequences of translating ecological complexity into calculable forms, and in particular how climate and biodiversity are combined, separated, or realigned within emerging data infrastructures, measurement approaches, and decision processes. The call encourages interdisciplinary dialogue across accounting, management, organization studies, finance, geography, science and technology studies, and related fields.
Link to the full call for papers: click here
Submissions and registration
Please submit your full paper or extended abstract (approximately 1,000 words) for consideration by 2 March 2026 to t.palermo@lse.ac.uk
Places are limited. If you would like to attend without submitting a paper, please fill in this form by 2 March 2026 to secure a place.
Logistics and support for participants
Details on how to register will be sent in the week commencing 16 March 2026 to those with accepted papers and to those who have expressed interest in attending the workshop. Registration places will be allocated on a first‑come, first‑served basis.
There is no workshop fee. Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation; we can provide advice on potential places to stay. Participants are expected to attend the full workshop. Registration will begin at approximately 1.00pm on 15 June, and the formal programme will conclude at approximately 2.00pm on 16 June.
Key Dates (UK GMT)
- Submission of full papers or long abstracts: 11.59pm, 2 March 2026
- Notification of acceptance: Week commencing 16 March 2026
- Workshop: Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026
Venue
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Contacts
Local organizers:
Tommaso Palermo (LSE): t.palermo@lse.ac.uk
Lorenzo Pirozzi (LSE): l.pirozzi@lse.ac.uk
Organizing Risk Group: org.risk.group@gmail.com
Supporting networks and funders
The workshop is organized as part of the activities of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (carr) and the Organizing Risk Group (ORG; follow on LinkedIn), an international and interdisciplinary academic network of researchers in management and other social sciences interested in risk and risk management.
The workshop is funded by the Global School of Sustainability at LSE (GSoS) as part of the research project “Translating Nature Into Risk: The Role of Financial Disclosure Frameworks in Shaping Nature-Related Risks” (webpage). GSoS is the interdisciplinary centre for sustainability impact at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).