Organized by the IUGG Union Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC)
(Budapest, 18 September 2026).
Welcome to the webpage of the CCEC Symposium on European and Global Wildfires: The GeoSciences Perspective from Cause to Impact!
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The issues of drought, wildfire and institutional responses to them are becoming more important as the climate changes and heat waves become more frequent. Australia learnt in 1939 that wildfires, especially catastrophic wildfires, exceed the capacity of local fire brigades. The Stretton Royal Commission recommended the establishment of State-wide fire-fighting capability.
Such lessons from one part of the world are becoming more applicable in other parts of the world as catastrophic fires become more frequent, cover larger areas, and impact more people and more houses. The immediate response involves fire-fighting, rescue and recovery. Each of these impacts, as well as the secondary and longer term impacts, require detailed scientific study.
The symposium seeks to commence scientific consideration of whether climate change is likely to lead to a tipping point whereby regions in which catastrophic fires have hitherto been rare (such as Hungary), will find that they become more frequent and possibly catastrophic.
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Program
It is envisaged that there will be 15 technical talks of either 20 or 30 minutes duration. Invitations to speak will be issued to the members of the Hungarian IUGG Committee, the symposium convenors, representatives of relevant Hungarian universities as well as to the bodies listed above.
Planned topics:
- Causes – Meteorology and Atmospheric Effects
- Causes and Impacts – The Forestry Perspective.
- Fire Behaviour and Wildfire Science
- International Fires Overview
- European Fires Past and Present
- Forests and their behaviour
Venue
To be announced.
Registration
Soon.
Conveners
- Tom Beer (Australia), IUGG-CCEC Immediate Past Chair
- Tamas Bozoki (Hungary) Secretary, IUGG National Committee of Hungary.
- Laszlo Bozo (Hungary) IAMAS representative.
Contact
Tom Beer (tom.beer@safesystemsolutions.com.au)
Tamas Bozoki (bozoki.tamas@epss.hun-ren.hu)