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The aim of these collaborative workshops is to bring together Climate Scientists, Mathematicians and Ecologists to answer key questions around the relationships between the variability and sensitivity of the Earth System and its subcomponents. The first of these twin workshops will examine potential climate tipping points, in both observational data and climate model projections. A key issue will be to discuss possible precursors of tipping points related to changes in system variability. The second workshop will discuss proposed emergent constraints on future projections, many of which are also based-on assumed relationships between sensitivity and variability. Each workshop will consist of a programme made-up of three thematic half-day sessions, with each session containing one keynote talk (25+5 minutes) followed by up to four shorter talks (15+5 minutes). Each thematic session will leave approximately 30 minutes for plenary discussion. The aim of these workshops is to identify research priorities for new work on climate tipping points and emergent constraints, and to promote cross-fertilization of mathematical ideas between these two important emerging topics in climate science. The organisers are exploring a possible special issue journal based-on the work presented at the workshops.