International partners invest $76.4mln into climate change research

Global Centers supports collaborative international centres for interdisciplinary use-inspired research on climate change and clean energy.

The funding is from UK Research and Innovation, the US National Science Foundation, and partners from Australia and Canada.

Global Centers' activities aim to catalyse the development of climate change solutions, such as advancing and advocating for decarbonisation efforts, using artificial intelligence to study responses of nature to climate change, and transboundary water issues.

Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, along with Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Council and Social Science and Humanities Research Council, join the contribution.

The awards are divided into two tracks, with track one being implementation grants with co-funding from international partners, and track two being design grants that provide seed funding to develop the teams and science for future competitions.

Seven track one Global Centers will involve research partnerships with Australia, Canada and the UK, and implemented by internationally dispersed teams.

There are 14 track two Global Centers at the community-driven design stage. These multidisciplinary, international teams will coordinate research to become competitive for track one funding.

More information about Global Centers is available on the NSF site.