Call for Poster Abstracts 2025

This theme will examine the challenges of communicating climate change issues between different audiences. We invited poster abstracts on research into the latest understanding and knowledge gaps around communication, policy and climate services and how these gaps can be reduced in the future.

This session charted the measurement and quantification of the global carbon cycle, how the land and oceans respond and the processes that modulate the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. We welcomed abstracts relevant to this theme, as well as research on how knowledge of the global carbon cycle guides policy decisions around Net Zero and emissions pathways and their consequences in the future.

This theme looked at research on current and future changes in the likelihood, frequency and severity of weather and climate extremes and their impacts, in the UK and worldwide, including the possibility for rapid transitions due to the interplay between natural climate variability and the underlying trend of anthropogenic climate change. We also invited submissions of research that tackles the challenges posed by uncertainty in future projections, including whether some of the potential future changes may extend beyond what can be adapted to, and how “adaptation” is defined in this context.

For this theme, we invited submissions of research on the decarbonisation of the energy sector and its importance in meeting global climate goals. The conference session on this theme covered the current status of the global energy transition, including issues of finance key to COP 30, and discussed the challenges that must be overcome. We welcomed research that complimented this discussion, but also wider research relevant to the energy transition and decarbonisation.

Decarbonisation, at pace, must be our priority. But this is unlikely to be enough to meet the goals of the Paris agreement. What options do we therefore have for engineering our climate through carbon dioxide removal or direct climate intervention? What are the risks and opportunities these approaches present? What robust societal and ethical guardrails can we put in place to ensure responsible research and where appropriate deployment that serves the public interest now and into the future? We welcomed any abstracts relevant to this theme.

We also welcomed abstracts on research which doesn’t fit within one of the themes described above but that was still relevant to the broad theme of the conference, or cut across more than one of the conference sessions.