SAVE THE DATE: Overshoot Conference 2025

As the world faces the growing risk of exceeding the 1.5°C warming threshold, understanding the implications of climate overshoot – and how we can respond – is more urgent than ever. This conference will bring together leading experts, policymakers, and stakeholders to explore the challenges, strategies, and opportunities related to climate overshoot.

When?

September 30 – October 2, 2025

Where?

Conference Center in Laxenburg, Austria
Hosted by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Key Themes:

This conference will cover a range of relevant topics, including:

• Highest possible mitigation ambition under overshoot

• Carbon Dioxide Removal: Sustainability constraints and opportunities

• Earth system responses up to net zero and beyond

• The (ir)reversibility of climate impacts

• Overshoot legacies and tipping elements

• Adaptation and its limits under overshoot

• Loss and damage

• Legal and justice implications of overshoot

Launch of Call for Abstracts:

An abstract submission will be available for each theme.
The Call for Abstracts will be announced in mid-April – stay tuned!

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Here, you’ll also find the latest updates on the program, Call for Abstracts, and registration details.