Tyndall Centre

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The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research is a partnership of universities, based in the United Kingdom, which brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists to "undertake robust and independent research to identify the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change and inform open and transparent decisions that best serve society".

The centre, named after the 19th-century Irish physicist John Tyndall and founded in 2000, has core partners of the University of East Anglia, University of Manchester, Newcastle University and the University of Southampton. Fudan University joined the Tyndall Centre partnership in 2011.

The Tyndall Centre is headquartered, with the Climatic Research Unit, in the Hubert Lamb building at the University of East Anglia. Its director is Professor Andy Jordan, based at the University of East Anglia, and appointed in 2025. Former directors of the Tyndall Centre include Robert Nicholls, Professor Corinne Le Quéré FRS CBE, Professor Sir Robert Watson, Professor Kevin Anderson, Professor Andrew Watkinson and Professor John Schellnhuber. The founding director is Professor Mike Hulme. Asher Minns is executive director.

The year 2025 marks 25 years of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. To celebrate this occasion, and look ahead to the urgent climate action needed, the Tyndall Centre will hold a conference in September 2025 called the Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference.

Research Focus

The Tyndall Centre has four main research themes: Accelerating Social Change, Achieving Wellbeing, Catalysing Adaptation and Resilience, and Reaching Zero Emissions.

In the Accelerating Social Change Theme, the Tyndall Centre focuses on the importance of people, organisations, lifestyles and consumption in addressing the climate crisis.

The Achieving Wellbeing theme recognises the likelihood that climate change will have most severe impacts in communities that have contributed least to the crisis, and tries to understand the ways that climate action, including through conservation and nature-based solutions, can contribute to improved wellbeing across its multiple dimensions.

In Catalysing Adaptation and Resilience, the Tyndall Centre seeks to better understand current and future risk, including changes to hazard, vulnerability, and exposure and hence resilience to climate change from global, national and local scales and across sectors and regions from North to South.

In the Reaching Zero Emissions theme, the Tyndall Centre quantifies and assesses mitigation actions to halve emissions by the end of the decade.

See also

• 4 Degrees and Beyond International Climate Conference
• Climate change in the United Kingdom
• Kevin Anderson (scientist)
• Climatic Research Unit
• Adaptation to global warming
• Mitigation of global warming

External links

• Tyndall Centre official site
• Radical Emissions Reduction Conference