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Updated on December 2, 2022

Canada is leading the International Joint Initiative for Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation. This initiative represents a collaboration between international research funders to leverage international expertise to tackle the global challenges caused by climate change.

Project teams must be interdisciplinary—incorporating expertise from across disciplines, as appropriate, to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies; and including expertise in the social sciences and/or humanities to address enabling factors, such as effective governance, community capacity, and geopolitical and economic security.

Projects must directly address at least two of the representative key risks identified by IPCC:

• Risks to low-lying coastal socio-ecological systems
• Risks to terrestrial and ocean ecosystems
• Risks associated with critical physical infrastructure, networks and services
• Risks to living standards
• Risks to human health
• Risks to food security
• Risks to peace and to human mobility

All projects are required to partner with a participating community or communities in the co-creation, implementation, and ownership of the research and outcomes, and to develop approaches related to policy implementation and knowledge mobilization. The integration of team members from vulnerable groups is required.

Projects must focus on responding to the needs of those most impacted by the effects of climate change - such as communities in low- and middle-income countries or Indigenous territories, or groups that are vulnerable due to their geographic, social and/or economic circumstances.

Information on the up-coming call can be found here.

Contact Details

Internal: Contact email is ird@dal.ca. Please reach out to ORS as soon as possible to discuss a planned submission. Applications led by Dalhousie researchers will require a minimum of ten business days for review.

Funder: Contact email is NFRF-FNFR@chairs-chaires.gc.ca.