In 2016, UR members, Philip Ward, Hessel Winsemius, James Daniell, and Hannah Cloke, will once again hold a session on ‘Global and continental scale risk assessment for natural hazards: methods and practice’ at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to this session, which will be convened by representatives of the Institute for Environmental Studies (VU University Amsterdam), Deltares, University of Reading, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. For more information and abstract submission, see http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20335