The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research is an organisation based in the

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that brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists to "research, assess and communicate from a distinct trans-disciplinary perspective, the options to mitigate, and the necessities to adapt to current

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and continuing

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, and to integrate these into the global, UK and local contexts of

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". The centre, named after the 19th-century Irish physicist

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and founded in 2000, has core partners of the

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joined the Tyndall Centre partnership in 2011. The Tyndall Centre is headquartered, with the

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, in the

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building at the

. Its director is Professor Robert Nicholls at the University of East Anglia and former of Southampton University. Former directors of the Tyndall Centre include Professor Corinne Le Quéré FRS CBE and Professor Sir Robert Watson interim directors

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and Professor Kevin Anderson, Professor Andrew Watkinson and Professor John Schellnhuber. The founding director is Professor Mike Hulme. Asher Minns is executive director.

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Tyndall Centre official siteRadical Emissions Reduction Conference
Climate change organisations based in the United Kingdom 2000 establishments in the United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council Research institutes in Norfolk University of East Anglia {{climate-change-stub

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