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The Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference showcases cutting-edge, evidence-based ideas and critically evaluates opportunities and challenges for climate action now
Date: 8-10 September 2025 | Location: University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK | Cost: Early-bird cost, including two nights’ accommodation, is £350
The University of East Anglia and The Tyndall centre invite you to join our conference, participate in early-career masterclasses and poster showcases, and come along to our post-conference party to celebrate 25 years of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
The conference includes the launch of “Decarbonising the UK Revisited”, a 2025 update on the seminal 2005 Decarbonising the UK, led by the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester.
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Conference details
What are the emergent and urgent transitions in our critical decade?
Climate risks and impacts
Measuring progress of adaptation actions
Carbon farming and agriculture
Climate and biodiversity: the double emergencies
How can climate action align with Paris temperature and equity commitments?
Decarbonising the UK: 2025 update
The role of wildfires
Achieving resilient net zero
Beyond Integrated Assessments
What are the barriers and enablers to delivering climate action at scale?
Climate risk and finance
Tricky and sticky decarbonisation
Balancing urgency and reality
Engaging with data
How to build and sustain coalitions for climate action?
Climate risk and finance
Tricky and sticky decarbonisation
Balancing urgency and reality
Engaging with data
Daily Masterclasses:
Getting the picture: understanding visual framing for media analysis, Prof. Saffron O’Neil, University of Exeter
Climate Policy from Academic to Impact, Prof. Andy Jordan, University of East Anglia
AI for climate impact assessment: Marie-Fanny Racault, University of East Anglia
Speakers include:
Prof Goneri de Cozannet, French Geological Survey and French Climate Change Committee, Haut conseil pour le climat
Prof Daniela Jacob, Director of Climate Services Centre Germany
Prof Saffron O’Neil, University of Exeter
Prof Alice Larkin, University of Manchester
Prof Rachel Warren, UEA
Prof Robert Nicholls, UEA
If you wish to apply to display a research poster at the evening reception at The Sainsbury Centre, please email a title and abstract of 250 words to tyndall.25@uea.ac.uk. The deadline for poster applications is early May (exact date tbc).
There will also be a series of early career master classes at the conference, led by international experts such as Corinne Le Quéré, CBE FRS, Professor of Climate Change Science at UEA.
Register now for early-bird offer
Early-bird cost, including two nights’ accommodation, is £350. Early-bird cost without accommodation is £190.