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Climate adaptation and resilience
Coastal and monsoon systems, heat exposure, adaptation finance, loss and damage accounting.
Two days of peer-reviewed papers, five keynotes and six tracks on climate adaptation, energy, circularity, biodiversity, cities and just transition. Singapore, 14–15 October 2027, in person.
Every abstract is read double-blind by three committee members. Accepted papers are published with a DOI.
Adaptation, energy, circular materials, biodiversity, cities and mobility, governance and just transition.
Capped at 520 delegates, with a third of places held for doctoral and early-career researchers.
The Forum opens in
The Forum opens in 423 days.
Sustainability research has entered a period in which the questions are less about direction than about thresholds: how much, how fast, at what cost, and borne by whom. CREATE — the Conference on Research, Environment, Adaptation, Transition and Equity — convenes researchers, doctoral candidates and early-career scholars around that evidence base.
Bring measurement, not aspiration. The Forum exists for the datasets, the field trials and the honest null results.
Prof. Amara Selvaraj, Forum Chair
Ninth edition
To put measured outcomes — costs, distributions, thresholds — in front of the people who write policy and the people who study it.
Low waste
A low-waste event: no printed programme, plant-forward regional catering, and a published footprint per delegate after each edition.
2
Days
184
Papers, 2025
520
Delegate cap
38
Countries
Each track runs four parallel sessions across the two days, chaired by a track lead. Nominate one track when you submit; the committee may reassign with your agreement.
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Coastal and monsoon systems, heat exposure, adaptation finance, loss and damage accounting.
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Grid flexibility, industrial heat, storage economics, hard-to-abate sectors, transition pathways.
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Material stock accounting, reuse systems, product lifetimes, waste governance, circularity metrics.
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Restoration ecology, agricultural transitions, remote sensing of land use, marine and coastal habitat.
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Urban form, transport demand, building stock retrofit, informal settlements, municipal data.
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Distributional evidence, disclosure regimes, public participation, labour and regional effects.
The Forum is capped, chaired and timed so that the discussion after a paper is as long as the paper. A third of presentation slots are held for doctoral candidates and early-career researchers, and twenty fee waivers are available for delegates from low- and lower-middle-income countries.
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Four full papers or six short papers per session, with real time for questions.
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A full morning for candidates 12–30 months from submission, with assigned discussants.
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Indexed proceedings with a DOI, and a 2028 special issue for selected papers.
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Twenty fee waivers for delegates from low- and lower-middle-income countries.
The only conference where I was asked for my error bars before I was asked for my slide deck.
My colloquium discussant rewrote my third chapter in one hour. That alone paid for the trip.
Small enough that you meet the authors you cite, and they have time to argue with you.
Supported by
Yes — up to two as presenting author. A second accepted paper carries a S$120 fee at registration.
No. CREATE 2027 is in person only. Keynote recordings are published to the delegate archive two weeks after the Forum.
A doctoral candidate, or a researcher whose doctorate was awarded within the last five years. Proof is requested at registration.
Yes, to registered delegates on request, normally within five working days. The secretariat cannot intervene in visa decisions.
Monsoon thresholds: what a decade of Asian rainfall records now tells us
Selvaraj leads the Regional Climate Observatory and has published extensively on monsoon variability and its consequences for agricultural planning across South and Southeast Asia....
After the easy megawatts: grid flexibility as a research problem
Sørensen's group models flexibility markets and storage economics for northern European grids. They have advised three national system operators on the integration of variable...
Who pays for the transition? Distributional evidence from twelve countries
Dlamini directs a comparative programme on the distributional effects of decarbonisation policy, with fieldwork in coal, mining and agricultural regions. Her 2026 monograph on...
300–500 words, structured and anonymised. Full papers, short papers, posters, panels, practice cases and the doctoral colloquium.