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Rail Resilience Conference Polish Presidency 16 June 2025

Conference on Rail Resilience to Climate Change

Published: 28 March 2025 Updated: 17 May 2025

On 16 June in Warsaw (Poland), this event will present preliminary results of an EU study on rail resilience to climate change, featuring insights from ERA, the European Commission, and key stakeholders across Europe.

Event
Date
Monday 16 June 2025, 09:00 - Monday 16 June 2025, 16:30 (Europe/Warsaw)
Location
Hotel Radisson Blu Sobieski, Plac Zawiszy 1, 02-025 Warsaw, Poland

Registration for this conference is now closed. Thank you for your interest in the event.

The increasing occurrence of extreme weather events such as floods, landslides, and high winds poses a serious challenge to railway infrastructure and operations all over Europe. Devastating floods hit Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands in 2021, Greece in 2023, and Spain and Central Europe in 2024 – but other well-documented extreme weather events, too, have established a need for a clear understanding of such events, and what can be done about them.

This is why the European Commission mandated the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) to conduct a study on rail resilience to the effects of climate change in mid-2024, that helps to develop a more structured, data-driven approach to the topic. Under the umbrella and with the support of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and the Polish Office of Rail Transport (UTK), ERA and the European Commission will present preliminary results of the study at a conference in Warsaw on 16 June 2025.

During this one-day conference, some of the stakeholders that are supporting on the study will take the floor and present analyses and solutions – including members of the European rail sector, partner institutions such as the European Environmental Agency (EEA), different national safety authorities (NSAs) in Europe, and other partner institutions from the European and academic environment.

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Rail Resilience Conference 16 June Programme

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