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Knowledge, Evidence and Engagement Portfolio (KEEP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
KEEP is a research and engagement facility that enables HMG climate leads to commission bespoke evidence and engagement activities to improve the delivery and increase the ambition of UK International Climate Finance activities, supporting developing countries to tackle climate change. It facilitates this by making funds available for research and engagement activities, filling evidence gaps and by ensuring efficient quality assurance and approval procedures
UK Hydrographic Office - Skills Development Bursary
Ministry of Defence
The UKHO’s international bursary training programme is primarily aimed at cartographic capacity building and meets UKHO’s objectives of enhancing data supply with training (with skills and knowledge) and developing or strengthening relationships with key partners.
Environmental Pollution Programme
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Environmental Pollution Programme’s aim is to work with ODA-eligible countries and regions to reduce the adverse impacts of pollution. Work will improve health and reduce environmental harm and poverty that results from chemical, air, waste and water pollution, as part of the Triple Planetary Crisis. 2021-22: Scoping year to share expertise, best practice and invest in research to strengthen the capacity of low- and middle-income countries to meet their obligations under UN Multilateral Environment Agreements and frameworks. 2022-2025: Phase one delivering two multi-year projects in Vietnam and South Africa through delivery partners Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and in country organisations. The programme reduced pollution and its impacts on the environment and health by promoting sustainable, economically viable practices, strengthening regulations, and enhancing awareness through multi-sector engagement, robust evidence projects, capacity building and monitoring to support policymaking. 2025-26: This year’s programme will build and expand on the successful approaches on reducing air pollution and increasing uptake of integrated pest management in Vietnam, adding new work on waste and plastic pollution. Work in Uganda will focus on developing a Health and Pollution Action Plan, creating a framework for future action that is aligned with priorities of national stakeholders. The programme will also establish Regional Pollution Forums, working in a multilateral way to amplify impact by spreading knowledge of successful interventions.
International Climate Finance R&D Programme
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This International Climate Finance (ICF) funded programme will deliver an integrated package of projects to strengthen global knowledge and understanding of the interrelationship between the climate and biodiversity challenges. It will seek to inform the work of policy developers and development practitioners globally and help narrow the funding gap between current and required investment in natural solutions to climate change. It recognises that the scaling, and effectiveness, of natural solutions to the triple challenge of climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss (hereafter referred to as ‘natural solutions’) requires an investment in the primary evidence base needed to inform effective decisions, and drive innovation in the future. The proposed package of work is designed to meet both short and longer-term evidence needs, including to deliver a UNFCCC and CBD legacy, focusing on ensuring strategic, policy-relevant results and a global network of knowledge exchange and learning. As part of this programme, the UK committed £40m to establish the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC). The GCBC is funded by the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) with International Climate Finance, working in partnership with DAI Global as the Management Lead. Through a series of research grant calls the GCBC will support GBF Targets 8,11 & 14 by establishing a global network of research institutions and experts to address critical research gaps in how the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity can address climate solutions and improve livelihoods. The GCBC was announced at COP26 with £40m of UK International Development funding. It contributes to the UK Government’s commitment to spend £3bn of its £11.6bn of International Climate Finance on nature and biodiversity over the 5 years to March 2026. The GCBC aims to support developing countries to shape decision-making and develop policies that better value, protect, restore and sustainably manage biodiversity in ways that tackle resilience to climate change and poverty. For more information, please visit www.gcbc.org.uk
Global Fund For Coral Reefs (GFCR)
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Coral reefs are amongst the most valuable ecosystems on earth, harbouring the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem, supporting 25% of marine life and providing a myriad of benefits to thousands of species. The Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) is a project within the Blue Planet Fund portfolio. The GFCR is the first Multi-partner Trust Fund for Sustainable Development Goal 14. It provides finance for coral reefs with particular attention on Small Island Developing States. The GFCR promotes a ‘protect-transform-restore-recover’ approach through the creation and management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to save and protect coral reefs in the face of serious decline and extinction. The GFCR has four main outcomes: Protect priority coral reef sites and climate change-affected refugia Transforming the livelihoods of coral reef-dependent communities Restoration and adaptation technologies Recovery of coral reef-dependent communities to major shocks
PROBLUE
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
PROBLUE is the World Bank’s leading multilateral mechanism for leveraging and disbursing blue finance towards sustainable ocean sectors and activities. It is a multi-donor trust fund that supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life Below Water, and the Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. PROBLUE aims to do this by reducing the existing blue finance gap by creating the necessary enabling environment for public and private sectors to shift from unsustainable to sustainable activities.
Global Programme on Sustainability
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The programme supports sustainable economic growth that is both long-lasting and resilient to climate-related stressors. It does this through the integration of natural capital into decision making by governments, the private sector and financial institutions. The inability to value natural capital can undermine long-term growth and critically, the livelihoods of the poorest people dependent on ecosystems for their livelihoods. This programme directly addresses this challenge by (i) investing in data and research on natural capital; (ii) assisting countries to integrate this analysis into government policy making; and (iii) integrating this data and analysis into financial sector decision making.
Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership S E Asia (WCSSP) - Calls - tender - UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Philippines, Malaysia Vietnam, and Indonesia - research on understanding and evaluating convective processes over SE Asia.
Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Collaborative climate science research programme between Brazilian and UK to improve understanding of recent climate changes and Brazil’s role in mitigation activities to inform international negotiations; to enhance projections of future weather and climate extremes and impacts to inform decision making and contribute to disaster risk reduction in Brazil. Research on Moisture Transport and Deforestation.
Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Collaborative climate science research programme between Brazil and UK to improve understanding of recent climate changes and Brazil’s role in mitigation activities to inform international negotiations; to enhance projections of future weather and climate extremes and impacts to inform decision making and contribute to disaster risk reduction in Brazil. Research into Sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions for advancing climate services in Brazil.
Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Collaborative climate science research programme between Brazil and UK to improve understanding of recent climate changes and Brazil’s role in mitigation activities to inform international negotiations; to enhance projections of future weather and climate extremes and impacts to inform decision making and contribute to disaster risk reduction in Brazil. Research hydrological cycle responses to land-use change and climate change over Brazil
Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Collaborative climate science research programme between Brazil and UK to improve understanding of recent climate changes and Brazil’s role in mitigation activities to inform international negotiations; to enhance projections of future weather and climate extremes and impacts to inform decision making and contribute to disaster risk reduction in Brazil. Research in understanding and attributing weather and climate events, and their socio-economic impacts on key food, water and health sectors in Brazil.
Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Collaborative climate science research programme between Brazil and UK to improve understanding of recent climate changes and Brazil’s role in mitigation activities to inform international negotiations; to enhance projections of future weather and climate extremes and impacts to inform decision making and contribute to disaster risk reduction in Brazil. Research into ecosystems responses to extremes.
Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) South Africa - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Collaborative project between meteorological services in South Africa and UK focusing on capacity building for improved weather and climate services, enabling mitigation of risk from extreme weather events. Research into improving representation of Climate Variability and change over Africa by using Machine Learning as a tool for Data Rescue.
Weather & Climate Service Partnership (WCSSP) Kenya - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Extreme weather and climate change is an area of concern for Kenya and the southern African region, and in the coming decades many regions are expected to become hotter and drier. Kenya may also experience more extreme weather, such as droughts and floods. Working collaboratively to address the challenges presented by extreme weather and climate will help safeguard lives and livelihoods across southern Africa, especially in the most vulnerable communities and help reduce the costs of disaster recovery and adaption for the Kenyan government. Outputs from this activity are being translated into products and services to assist governments, businesses and communities in decision-making around weather and climate resilience and adaptation. Through tackling challenges in multiple sectors including water, energy, health and food security, these services will help inform disaster risk-reduction strategies within Kenya and the wider African continent.
AI for Climate - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
New multi-year activity ( this proposal covers FY24/25 only) using AI to advance weather and climate science, and hence deliver improved predictions and projections more quickly than would otherwise be possible. AI and data science is of considerable interest to several developing countries, both in terms of developing their expertise in this area and for the potential benefits it offers in terms of reducing the need for expensive high performance computer resource. The activity aims to work with partner countries ( India [ODA] & South Africa) to co-develop region-specific climate models with AI/ML built in to equip in-country partners with the capability to better understand climate risks. This work will also result in models that can be used by other ODA-eligible countries to support their current capability to understand and adapt to climate change.
AI for Climate - Calls
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
New multi-year activity ( this proposal covers FY24/25 only) using AI to advance weather and climate science, and hence deliver improved predictions and projections more quickly than would otherwise be possible. AI and data science is of considerable interest to several developing countries, both in terms of developing their expertise in this area and for the potential benefits it offers in terms of reducing the need for expensive high performance computer resource. The activity aims to work with partner countries ( India [ODA] & South Africa) to co-develop region-specific climate models with AI/ML built in to equip in-country partners with the capability to better understand climate risks. This work will also result in models that can be used by other ODA-eligible countries to support their current capability to understand and adapt to climate change.
Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF READING
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Collaborative climate science research programme between Brazil and UK to improve understanding of recent climate changes and Brazil’s role in mitigation activities to inform international negotiations; to enhance projections of future weather and climate extremes and impacts to inform decision making and contribute to disaster risk reduction in Brazil. Research into Sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions for advancing climate services in Brazil. Specifically this grant will support the development of communication materials to support partner uptake of programme outputs.
AI for Climate - calls - tender - UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Kilometre-Scale Simulations for Al Training - High-impact weather (HIW) events, such as heavy rain and consequent flooding and landslides, or drought, can be devastating to the livelihoods of local people and the economy of many countries in the tropics. The societal and economic impacts of HIW include loss of human life, damage to property, destruction of crops, loss of livestock, poor health, displacement of populations, loss of infrastructure, severe disruption to transportation from heavy rainfall, and the suspension of many economic activities (UNDRR, 2019, 2020a, 2020b, 2020c). Almost all HIW is expected to increase across the tropics and sub-tropics with ongoing climate change, affecting the poorest and most vulnerable. Improved projections of climate change in HIW aid adaptation, and motivate mitigation. However, in many tropical regions it is unclear whether regions will become wetter or drier (IPCC), limiting adaptation. UPSCALE will focus on the tropics, where moist convection dominates rainfall and is a primary source of heating to the tropical atmosphere, and where we can use the full model hierarchy including the cyclic-tropical-channel. The UPSCALE project will conduct research into (1) the evaluation of the newly developed Met Office Convection-Permitting Models (CPM) hierarchy of simulations, and (2) the development and application of novel process-based diagnostics and propose sensitivity experiments to understand the mechanisms of up and down scale interactions in the CPMs vs. current simulations with parametrised convection, focusing on the value of large pan-tropical domains. These activities will benefit weather forecasting and climate prediction, especially for the tropics/sub-tropics, including the development of machine learning-based predictions. The K-Scale simulations work package would exploit UK and international research in K-scale modelling with both developed (Australia, U.S.) and developing countries (India, S. Africa) to derive additional value from these high-resolution simulations as training data for AI data driven prediction systems that could then be exploited by partners. The resource would accelerate development and evaluation of the K-scale predictions and work with dataset curators/developers to ensure efficient workflows for ML applications. Initially the work will be on using research we are currently collaborating with partners on and deployment with in-country partners in subsequent years.
Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil - Calls- tender-UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS WP3
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Constraining future projections of wildfire and air quality in Brazil This project will bring together and analyse data on fire, climate, air pollution and human health to improve our understanding of the climate and human drivers of wildfire and poor air quality across Brazil. We will use new understanding gained from analysis of historical fires to help constrain future model projections of wildfire and air quality in Brazil. We will provide new evidence of how fire and land management alongside other mitigations could reduce exposure to poor air quality. We will work to develop UK-Brazil collaborations on wildfire and air quality and ensure outputs from the research inform policy and decision making in Brazil.
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