Abstract Submissions

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

The Climate Adaptation 2025 organising committee invites authors to submit abstracts for:

• Oral presentation in break-out session (12 minutes + 3 minutes question time)
  Suited to complex, more detailed projects or activities that are complete and/or have significant lessons or outcomes to share.
   
• Lightening talk in plenary (3 minutes)
  Suited to a simple message, a clear actionable insight to share with all conference delegates. Can be supported with a poster or weblink for more information.
   
• Interactive session (90min)
  Pitch your idea for a workshop or interactive panel session. You must list all proposed presenters or speakers and ensure they intend to register and attend the conference. We are looking for diverse, cross organisation or sector co-designed sessions that are innovative and creative.
   
• Poster display (whole of event)
  Summarize information or research concisely and attractively to help publicize it and generate discussion.
   
• Adaptfest video (<5 minutes)
  Have your short video or animation showcased at the conference film festival.

Abstract submissions close 11:59pm AEST time on Friday, 14 March 2025.

ABSTRACT THEMES

1. Cities, settlements & infrastructure - Where we live, how we live, the pipes, the parks. Climate change challenges how we live healthily and happily in cities, and how we manage and construct the infrastructure of the urban environment.
    
2. Adaptation for natural systems, natural systems for adaptation - Nature sits in the middle of needing protection and being a protector in the climate-nature-society nexus. How do we build climate-ready conservation strategies? How do we implement nature-based solutions?
    
3. Decisions & governance - Trade-offs, effective adaptation, enabling adaptation, best practice, suitable governance mechanisms, enabling settings. These are all important structural and systematic aspects of adaptation. What are we learning? Are we doing things better? Can we transform?
    
4. Tell it, talk it - Communication is at the heart of understanding climate risk. How do we talk and learn to change behavior and build confidence to make decisions? How do we integrate and value different knowledge systems?
    
5. Social & economic dimensions of adaptation - Climate change impacts all aspects of society, and social and economic dimensions determine how we choose to respond. This theme considers topics such as: identifying and overcoming vulnerability and inequity; understanding and enhancing the adaptive capacity of individuals and organisations, economic and financial instruments to support adaptation measures.
    
6. Adaptation in practice - Adaptation is often described a s learning by doing. We invite presenters from all aspects of adaptation practice and thinking to share an innovative action, success or lesson from implementing adaptation.
    
7. Understanding & assessing hazards & risk - Accounting for multiple hazards, cascading and compounding risks. How can they be anticipated? How can we prepare for them?
    
8. Other - If your abstract does not fit a theme.

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES

• Abstracts can only be accepted if submitted online via the abstract portal.
   
• Abstract deadline is 11:59pm AEST time on Friday, 14 March 2025.
   
• Please submit as early as possible prior to the deadline (in case you experience technical problems).
   
• Abstracts will be accepted from any theme/field of climate adaptation, however, to assist us in processing abstracts please select a relevant theme.
   
• Please select the theme most relevant to your abstract and do not submit the same abstract under different themes. There is an ‘Other’ category if your abstract does not fit a theme.
   
• A selected number of abstracts will be accepted for oral presentations and lightening talks based on merit and relevance to the conference key themes.
   
• Abstracts must be submitted as a Microsoft Word file, written in English and not exceed 300 words in length (excluding authors).
   
• Author affiliations must be provided in the following format: Group (optional), Department, University/Institute.
   
• Abstracts must be structured according to the following subheadings:
       + Abstract Title (max. 10 words)
       + Keywords (max. 5 words)
       + Abstract (max. 300 words)
       + Link to video if submitting for Adaptfest
   
• Do not use special characters such as (: # = & * { } [ ] ) in your title.
   
• A high-resolution photo of authors must be submitted with the abstract (max file size is 500MB).
   
• You will be notified on the outcome of your abstract submission in May 2025.
   
• The first author will be considered the contact author for the abstract, only 2 abstracts per first author will be accepted.
   
• After submission, emails concerning the abstract will be sent to the first author of the abstract. Please ensure that emails from the event administrators are not considered as spam by your email provider.
   
• At least one author of each successful abstract must register for the event.
   
• Please do not include references or diagrams.
   
• Please avoid abbreviations and citations in the abstract.
   
• Please avoid complex mathematical formulae and Greek letters.
   
• All funding sources should be acknowledged at the end of the abstract, this is not
   
• included within the word count.
   
• Unsuccessful abstracts for oral presentation will automatically be considered
   
• for poster presentation, you will be notified of the outcome accordingly.
   
• Successful abstracts will be published on the conference website.
   
• Presentations of successful abstracts will be published on the Climate Systems Hub website after the event.