What is this collection about?

Climate risks do not occur in isolation. They can interact and spread across environmental, social and economic systems, creating impacts that are difficult to predict and manage. As climate change intensifies, there is a growing need to understand how these risks arise, combine, and affect people and places.

This cross-journal Collection focuses on complex climate risks, including cascading impacts, compound events, and tipping-point risks. It brings together research on how to reduce vulnerability and build resilience across sectors and scales, from facilities and cities to regional and global systems. The research explores a range of responses, including adaptation, decision-support tools, governance, finance, and climate justice.

Communications Sustainability, Communications Earth & Environment, Nature Water, Nature Communications, npj Climate Action, and Scientific Reports invite submissions that improve understanding of complex climate risks and how they can be managed.

Why is this collection important?

This is a cross-journal collection between Communications Sustainability, Communications Earth & Environment, Nature Water, Nature Communications, npj Climate Action, and Scientific Reports. Authors are welcome to submit to any of the participating journals. All manuscripts published in the collection are hosted on a dedicated nature portfolio portal, giving articles high visibility beyond the journal they are published in.

Why submit to a collection?

Collections like this one help promote high-quality science. They are led by In-House Editors who are experts in their fields and supported by a dedicated team of Commissioning Editors and Managing Editors at Springer Nature. Collection manuscripts typically see higher citations, downloads, and Altmetric scores, and provide a one-stop-shop on a cutting-edge topic of interest.

Who is involved?

Communications Sustainability is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members.

Guest editor for Communications Sustainability and npj Climate Action

Ramit Debnath, PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Dr. Ramit Debnath is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) at the University of Cambridge. His research leverages human-centric AI, computational social science and systems thinking to understand climate risks and their social tipping mechanisms.

Communications Earth & Environment is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members. 

Nature Communications is edited by in-house professional editors.

Nature Water is edited by in-house professional editors.

npj Climate Action is edited by a team of external academic editors.

Scientific Reports is managed by in-house professional editors and edited by Editorial Board Members.

Our editors work closely together to ensure the quality of our published papers and consistency in author experience.

How can I submit my paper?

• Visit the Collection page to find out more about this collection and submit your article.