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Climate adaptation and resilience
Coastal and monsoon systems, heat exposure, adaptation finance, loss and damage accounting.
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Thresholds and Transitions
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
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Our aim
Ninth edition
To put measured outcomes — costs, distributions, thresholds — in front of the people who write policy and the people who study it.
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Our commitment
Low waste
A low-waste event: no printed programme, plant-forward regional catering, and a published footprint per delegate after each edition.
Six Fields, One Question
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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Energy transition and decarbonisation
Grid flexibility, industrial heat, storage economics, hard-to-abate sectors, transition pathways.
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Circular economy and materials
Material stock accounting, reuse systems, product lifetimes, waste governance, circularity metrics.
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Biodiversity and land systems
Restoration ecology, agricultural transitions, remote sensing of land use, marine and coastal habitat.
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Sustainable cities and mobility
Urban form, transport demand, building stock retrofit, informal settlements, municipal data.
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Governance, finance and just transition
Distributional evidence, disclosure regimes, public participation, labour and regional effects.
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Discussion-scale sessions
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Four full papers or six short papers per session, with real time for questions.
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Doctoral colloquium
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A full morning for candidates 12–30 months from submission, with assigned discussants.
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Publication route
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Indexed proceedings with a DOI, and a 2028 special issue for selected papers.
Five Addresses Over Two Days
Professor of Earth Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Prof. Amara Selvaraj
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....
Director, Nordic Institute for Energy Transition, Copenhagen
Dr Henrik Lund Sørensen
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...
Chair in Environmental Governance, University of Cape Town
Prof. Nomvula Dlamini
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...
Abstracts Close 30 April 2027
300–500 words, structured and anonymised. Full papers, short papers, posters, panels, practice cases and the doctoral colloquium.