14–15 October 2027 Suntec Singapore In person secretariat@create2027.org
CREATE 2027 Evidence for a Cleaner Planet

Five addresses across the two days, each followed by twenty minutes of questions from the floor. Keynote recordings are published to the delegate archive two weeks after the Forum.

Prof. Amara Selvaraj

Prof. Amara Selvaraj

Professor of Earth Systems Science, National University of Singapore

Monsoon thresholds: what a decade of Asian rainfall records now tells us

Selvaraj leads the Regional Climate Observatory and has published extensively on monsoon variability and its consequences for agricultural planning across South and Southeast Asia. She chaired the 2024 regional assessment on adaptation thresholds.

Dr Henrik Lund Sørensen

Dr Henrik Lund Sørensen

Director, Nordic Institute for Energy Transition, Copenhagen

After the easy megawatts: grid flexibility as a research problem

Sørensen's group models flexibility markets and storage economics for northern European grids. They have advised three national system operators on the integration of variable renewable capacity beyond sixty per cent of supply.

Prof. Nomvula Dlamini

Prof. Nomvula Dlamini

Chair in Environmental Governance, University of Cape Town

Who pays for the transition? Distributional evidence from twelve countries

Dlamini directs a comparative programme on the distributional effects of decarbonisation policy, with fieldwork in coal, mining and agricultural regions. Her 2026 monograph on transition compensation is widely cited in policy review.

Dr Kenji Watanabe

Dr Kenji Watanabe

Principal Scientist, Institute for Circular Materials, Kyoto

Material stocks, not flows: rethinking the metrics of circularity

Watanabe works on national material stock accounting and the service life of buildings and infrastructure. He co-authored the open dataset on construction material stocks now used in more than forty national inventories.

Prof. Elena Ruiz Marchetti

Prof. Elena Ruiz Marchetti

Director, Barcelona Urban Systems Laboratory

The fifteen-minute city after the pilot phase: what the travel data shows

Ruiz Marchetti studies urban form and travel demand using municipal mobility data. Her laboratory's evaluation of superblock interventions has been replicated in six European cities.