IRGC is conducting 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
What are the socio-economic challenges and needs that distinct forms of crypto or digital currencies could address from various stakeholders’ perspectives? What fundamental shifts could this imply?
Policy options to address collision risk from space debris
This policy brief offers a range of policy options and generic recommendations to improve the assessment, evaluation and management of collision risk. IRGC emphasises that action must be taken immediately, even though a more thorough risk assessment must still be completed.
The EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC) is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to extending knowledge about the increasingly complex, uncertain and ambiguous risks that affect society. We develop risk governance strategies that involve all key stakeholder groups, including citizens, governments, businesses and academia.
