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Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed unprecedented extreme climatic events, and the past two years were no exceptions, from the extremely heavy Saharan dust outbreak that reached the Americas, to an explosive Atlantic Hurricane activity with the highest number of storms ever recorded, or severe drought in the Middle East and South America. In this session, we invite presentations on attribution studies for all extreme events around the world to improve our understanding of their mechanisms; the impacts of extreme events on society; their predictions and how effective forecasts were to mitigate impacts.