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Climate change has made noticeable impacts on urban life, including worsening urban heat island phenonema, deteriorating air and thermal environments, and increased frequencies of storms and flooding under extreme weather conditions. As a result, cities require higher energy demand, more robust civil infrastructure, and various countermeasures to maintain better urban environments. Also, climate change is considered to ever accelerate wind-related damage to buildings and other infrastructure, hence, its adaptation is required. Wind engineering is a multidisciplinary field that aims to understand the interactions between human activities and surrounding airflows at various scales. It covers structural engineering for civil infrastructure and buildings, environmental engineering and sciences related to the built environment, and wind-related disaster prevention. Under these evolving circumstances, wind engineering research is facing increasing challenges in addressing potential rises in wind hazards and the deterioration of outdoor urban environments caused by climate change. Therefore, this session offers valuable opportunities for researchers and engineers across a wide range of wind engineering-related fields - including structural engineering, environmental engineering, and atmospheric sciences - to share their insights on the impact of climate change as well as viable countermeasures. Changes in human safety and comfort in urban areas will be discussed in the context of built-environment hazards and comfort performance. Possible topics include wind loads on civil infrastructure, buildings, and secondary structures; urban ventilation for outdoor air quality and thermal comfort; strong winds around buildings; and wind-related disasters. Contributions addressing the effects of climate change on these topics are highly encouraged, with the shared goal of advancing a resilient, comfortable, and sustainable society through wind engineering research.