We’re happy to announce that Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester, will join us for the ClimateExistence conference 2026!
Kevin Anderson will deliver a keynote during day 1, November 16, bringing us the latest on the state of the climate, carbon budgets, climate justice, and rapid transitions.
ClimateExistence is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, CRS, Uppsala University.
When: November 16-18, 2026
Where: Uppsala, Sweden
Registration: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8900367 (see form for conference fees)
Kevin Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, at the University of Manchester. He was the second Zennström visiting professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, now visiting researcher at CEMUS, Uppsala University. Kevin is a well-known and established researcher within climate change science who engages frequently with policy-makers, the private sector, civil society as well as the media. He has pioneered research on carbon budgets and pathways to acceptable mitigation levels, and worked on the technical, social and economic interactions involved in the transformation of energy systems, the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
Read more about Kevin Anderson at https://tyndall.ac.uk/people/kevin-anderson/, https://climateuncensored.com/ and at Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/kevinclimate.bsky.social
How can we stay with the trouble and dwell in the collapsing space between the urgent and the eternal?
The global landscape of 2026 is defined by a sense of fracture and eroding baselines. We see it in the stalling currents of the Atlantic and the geopolitical tensions stretching from the Arctic to the Middle East. As carbon budgets dwindle and the 2030 threshold looms, the distance between scientific projections and our lived reality has vanished. We inhabit a strange paradox where we are simultaneously running out of time and standing at the threshold of a new, long-lasting era of instability. In the face of tipping points and a shifting world order, we gather in Uppsala to search for meaning and community, feeling our way through the darkness.
How do we maintain a sense of place and direction when the natural and political maps are being redrawn and discarded? In an age of extreme weather and ecological loss, how do we navigate the tension between immediate crisis and the slow, deep time of the earth? If the systems we relied upon are failing, what new bridges can we build between the practical needs of survival and the existential need for meaning? How can we stay with the trouble and dwell in the collapsing space between the urgent and the eternal?
CEMUS, CRS, and Uppsala University invite you to join us for an engaging ClimateExistence conference! We aim to be a creative meeting place for artists, activists, academics, faith practitioners, and anyone interested in the existential and practical aspects of the climate emergency.