Conference on Rail Resilience to Climate Change

Registration open until 14 May 2025 (see details below)

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.

Programme Available Here - Registration Details Below

As this conference is an official event of the Polish EU Presidency, some special requirements have to be fulfilled for the registration process, which comes in 2 steps:

1. You will need to fill in the pre-registration form linked here until Wednesday 14 May; you will receive a confirmation message and automatically taken to step 2:
2. You will receive an email invitation from the Polish EU Presidency requesting you to fill in a more detailed form at the end of May / beginning June, through which you will complete the registration process including a free pass for public transport in Warsaw for 16 June.

This conference is free of charge - however, all participants must complete the above registration process described above, journalists included.