Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

  • Sustainable Development for a Dynamic Planet: Lessons, Priorities, and Solutions
  • 23-25 January 2025
  • Florida International University, Miami, USA + Online

2025 Themes and Special Focus

Founded in 2009, the Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network is brought together by a common concern for the science of, and social responses to, climate change. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses features research addressing the following annual themes. Each year we also focus on a Special Focus that presents a timely challenge.

  • 2025 Special Focus—Sustainable Development for a Dynamic Planet: Lessons, Priorities, and Solutions
  • Theme 1: The Nature of Evidence
  • Theme 2: Assessing Impacts in Diverse Ecosystems
  • Theme 3: Human Impacts and Responsibility
  • Theme 4: Technical, Political, and Social Responses

Participate as a Presenter

For over 10 years, we've offered a forum for discussion of evidence of climate change, its causes, its ecosystemic impacts, and its human impacts. We welcome returning and new members to add their voices to the conversation.

In-Person: In-Person presentations will be delivered onsite. We offer innovative formats for a range of presentation styles.

Online Only: online presentations will be delivered and viewed online as asynchronous digital media. Online Only presenters also have discussion boards to structure conversations and access to other online activities.

Conference as Archive: we'll capture and add as much content as possible on the conference microsite. While it's a requirement for online-only presenters, we strongly encourage in-person presenters to pre-record and upload their presentations to the conference microsite. The conference microsite becomes an archive to which delegates and Research Network members can return anytime.

With this step-by-step guide, we walk you through the new phases pre/during/post-conference to ensure you have a productive conference.

Participate as an Audience Member

Audience Passes are for those who want to benefit from the content, connect with presenters, and join the discussion. Audience members will also be recognized in the program for their participation. We welcome returning and new members to add their voices to the conversation.

In-Person: participate in innovative in-person formats, plenaries, talking circles, garden conversations, and on a human scale. You will also have access to all online-only content.

Online Only: gain access to live and recorded presentations, welcome addresses, plenaries, and curated thematic content -- from any place and in your own time.

Conference as Archive: we'll capture and add as much content as possible on the conference microsite. And you can help here too. If you do not see digital media on a presenter page, you can request it from the presenter. You can also add comments to discussion boards of all content. The conference microsite becomes an archive to which delegates and Research Network members can return anytime.

Publication Opportunities

All accepted proposals are eligible to be submitted to The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. And authors, reviewers, and Research Network members gain subscriber access to the journal.

We are working to change how knowledge is produced, validated, and shared within member-based Research Networks.

The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses offers pathways to transform your presentation into formal research objects. We also offer several affordable Open Access pathways to allow maximum flexibility to support principles of open research and funder mandates.

2025 Important Dates

We welcome the submission of proposals at any time of the year. The dates below serve as a guideline for proposal submission based on our corresponding registration deadlines. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.

Proposal & Registration Dates

The dates below serve as a guideline for proposal submission based on our corresponding registration deadlines.

Proposal Deadlines

Advance Proposal Deadline 23 March 2024
Early Proposal Deadline 23 June 2024
Regular Proposal Deadline 23 October 2024
Late Proposal Deadline 23 December 2024

Registration Deadlines

Advance Registration Deadline 23 April 2024
Early Registration Deadline 23 July 2024
Regular Registration Deadline 23 December 2024
Late Registration Deadline 23 January 2025

Digital Media Deadline

All Presenters (In-Person and Online Only) are asked to upload Digital Media (a video of the presentation as embed code, MP4, PowerPoint, or PDF) to their Presentation pages. This content will be delivered and viewed online as asynchronous digital media. We require presenters to add their digital media to their Presenter Page at least one week before the conference start date, as our Program Development Team will review all media.

Tips on how to upload digital media to you your CGScholar Presenter Page. Take the link to the Event Microsite Guide to find out more.

Digital Media Deadline 18 January 2025

Submit Your Proposal

Use the buttons below to submit a proposal for review.