Date: 8-10 September 2025 | Location: University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK | Cost: Early-bird offer, including two nights’ accommodation, is £350 (£190 without accommodation) | Register now | Contact the organiser
Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference showcases cutting-edge, evidence-based ideas and critically evaluates opportunities and challenges for climate action now.
The Tyndall Centre and the University of East Anglia 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, research that is led by the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester.
Conference details
Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference spans across four cross-cutting interdisciplinary questions over three days at UEA:
- 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?
- Health and climate change
- Mobilising new meanings of social change
- The significance of semantics
- Wellbeing and climate action
Read our briefing note on the conference concept
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 tyndall.25@uea.ac.uk, or contact us with any questions or clarifications. The deadline for poster applications is Friday 2nd May.
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.
