2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Pre-Launch Announcement

The Government of Canada is leading the International Initiative for Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, with several international research funding organizations responding to Canada’s call for interest. Research funders from Brazil, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, among others, have joined as partners. The initiative will leverage international expertise to tackle global challenges caused by climate change.

Set to be launched in January 2023, the initiative will focus on interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral approaches to managing (mitigation and adaptation) eight risks identified by the IPCC as being relevant to groups most impacted by the effects of climate change, namely:

• Risks to low-lying coastal socio-ecological systems
• Risks to terrestrial and ocean ecosystems
• Risks associated with critical physical infrastructure, networks and services
• Risks due to extreme events, leading to the breakdown of physical infrastructure and networks providing critical goods and services, including infrastructure systems for energy, water, transportation, telecommunications, health care and emergency response, with impacts on the individuals, groups and populations that rely on them.
• Risks to living standards
• Risks to human health
• Risks to food security
• Risks to water security
• Risks to peace and to human mobility

For details visit the following link: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/international/2023/international-2023-prelaunch-eng.aspx#4

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