Information for attendees|Program Highlights
Information for attendees
Registration
Registration deadline, for those who have received an in-person invitation: February 27, 2026.Please register here. Online registration may be extended beyond this date.
If you wishto apply for funding, please fill out this formby February 27, 2026.
Location
The workshop will take place in Nanjing, China. More information about the official workshop hotel will be available in early March along with confirmation of acceptance, and travel funding.
Side meetings:
The Scientific Steering Group will have a one-day meeting on Saturday June 13th.
Information about other side-meetings will be added here, as it becomes available.
Visa info:
Letters will be issued to confirmed attendees starting in March. Many countries require visas. Please familiarize yourself with the requirements for travel to China from your country.
Program Highlights
Roadmap|Session Proposals|Discussion Marketplace
Full program will be available in March.
Daily structure: Session 1: 8:30-10:00, 10-10:30 break, Session II 10:30 -12:00 , Lunch: 12:00-1:30, Session III 1:30-3:00, 3:00-3:30 break, Session IV 3:30-5:00 or 5:30
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Draft Program Roadmap
Day 1:StocktakeTue June 9
Expectations, Intended Outcomes, Getting on the Same Page
Opening plenary: Welcomes, RIfS overview presentation (developed in wide consultation), panel on use of terminology, Q&A discussion
Presentations from existing activities for the remaining 3 sessions of the day.
Day 2:Science ChallengesWed June 10
Summary from Stocktake→Further discussion organized around Science Challenges
First session: Summary of Day 1, and some cross-cutting Stocktake Reporting (eg data products, guidance existing or in-development, ongoing or planned community surveys)
Rest of the day: moderated panel discussions, break-out groups and/or other interactive format on each of the threeScience Challenges from the current RIfS Science Plan
Day 3:Research FrontiersThurs June 11
Deep-dive on some priority topics→Next Science Plan Discussion
Three blocks (2 before lunch, one after), with possibility of parallel sessions.
Interdisciplinary work: collaboration between the social and physical sciences
Regional Uncertainties in an Overshoot World (with report-out from UNEP report that will have launched the Friday before)
Climate Literacy
Proposed topics from Program Committee:
Final (fourth) block: session on next Science Plan “zero-order draft”: Presentation from committee on initial ideas, discussion, feedback, and planning next steps of the process.
Day 4:Wrapping upFri June 12
Open discussion, action items,summarizing
Leave one session open for attention to emerging topic(s) from the previous days
Action items: confirming next steps on items like
Closing plenary: a summary of the meeting from the co-chairs, based on notes and written reports from session chairs throughout the meeting.
How to propose a session
As we are organizing a participatory workshop, we invite proposals of interactive sessions such as panel discussions, townhalls, world café, or by your own creative means. The sole requirement will be that proposals have cross-cutting themes, spanning different regions, disciplines, or activities.
Sessions will occur over 1.5 hour blocks of time, and should be in hybrid format to allow for participation of online meeting attendees.
To propose a session, please fill out theform found hereby March 2nd.
Discussion Marketplace
We invite you to propose a topic for the Discussion Marketplace, which will take place e.g. at the end of the first day of the meeting. The Discussion Marketplace is a social and interactive session in which participants propose topics for discussion. Selected topics will be allocated a dedicated space (“booth”). At the beginning of the session, topic owners will give a 2-minute pitch to introduce their idea and invite others to join. This will be followed by open, informal conversations at the booths with interested participants, for example, to share experiences, explore challenges, or jointly look for solutions. We welcome initialexpressions of interest as part of the workshop registrationform.
with logistics support from theGEP Support Unit, andRIfS IPO.
