In 2021-2023 IRGC conducted project work about ways to ensure that risks to environmental sustainability caused by emerging technologies are identified and addressed early in the design phase of technologies.
Governing risks and opportunities of digital currencies
In 2022, IRGC explored the socio-economic challenges and needs that distinct forms of crypto or digital currencies could address from various stakeholders’ perspectives.
Policy options to address collision risk from space debris
An IRGC policy brief presents a range of policy options and generic recommendations to improve the assessment, evaluation and management of collision risk (2021).
On 31 July 2023, the EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC) has closed. Please go to https://irgc.org for a summary of IRGC’s main activities and output between 2003 and 2023. During these 20 years, IRGC worked to improve knowledge and action about the increasingly complex, uncertain and ambiguous risks that affect society. It developed risk governance strategies that involve all key stakeholder groups, including citizens, governments, businesses and academia.
The International Risk Governance Center at EPFL ceased its activities on 31 July 2023. This website is no longer updated. IRGC’s outcome since 2004 is available on theIRGC Foundation website.
