The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School are hosting the second Attribution Science and Climate Law Conference to be held on June 10-11, 2026 at Columbia University in New York City at the Bollinger Forum.
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IN PERSON registration:
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- You will be asked if you will be attending on Day 1, Day 2 or both days
ZOOM registration:
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This interdisciplinary conference will bring together researchers, scholars, and practitioners to examine the evolving field of climate change attribution science and its implications for law, litigation, governance, and policy. Participants will include physical scientists, public health researchers, economists, social scientists, legal scholars, and legal practitioners, among others. This event will build upon the success of a prior conference on Attribution Science and Climate Law which was held at Columbia University in January 2025.
The 2-day program will feature oral panels, breakout discussions, and a poster session featuring novel research. Key topics and themes include:
- Scientific foundations and frontiers: The conference will explore the evolving field of climate change attribution science, including recent developments in extreme event, impact, and end-to-end attribution.
- Climate impacts and damages: Scientists will discuss insights from attribution research regarding the effects of climate change on human health, food security, labor, extreme event exposure, economic damages, and more.
- Law, policy, and governance: Participants will explore how climate science factors into legal decision-making across different policy domains, and how scientific concepts can be effectively communicated in legal contexts.
- Climate litigation and evidence: Legal experts will discuss the use of attribution science in litigation, and how the science factors into legal discussions about harm, causation, foreseeability, and responsibility for climate damages.
- Emerging challenges: Participants will consider how attribution science and legal strategies can be leveraged to address emerging challenges in climate law and policy, including challenges related to international governance, climate displacement, regulatory rollbacks, and political attacks on climate science.
Public registration will open in mid-April. The conference will be livestreamed for those who are unable to attend in person.
With thanks to our Advisory Committee