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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.
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 and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as the Strategic Science 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
Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Change Programme
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Funding from UK government to deliver excellent climate research to provide an improved understanding of past climate and enable better projections to underpin national scientific capability and inform domestic and international policy commitments (e.g. Climate Change Act 2008 and UNFCCC negotiations). Climate models and underpinning science developed using MOHCCP funding are publically available and used as the foundation for many projects that aim to build resilience to a changing climate in developing countries. The models are used for developing systems in developing countries to produce climate projections. For example, the models have been used to analyse drought in the Horn of Africa, climate change impacts in Bangladesh and to build resilience to climate change in the Philippines.
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
Knowledge, Evidence and Engagement Portfolio (KEEP)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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
Malaysia - Newton Fund Impact Scheme
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Malaysia - Newton Fund Impact Scheme is funded through the UK Government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Newton Fund and delivered on the UK side by the British Council. This activity contributes to the Newton Fund’s work in building research and innovation partnerships with countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to support economic development and social welfare, tackle global challenges and develop talent and careers.
Brazil - Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) - Calls - tender - UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
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
South Africa - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) - Calls - tender - HR WALLINGFORD
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Collaborative project between a UK research organisation and SAWS to evaluate the use of convective scale NWP using the Unified Model over southern Africa, improving understanding of how such models represent high impact weather, and the physical processes which lead to high-impact weather events.
Brazil - Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) - Calls - tender - ROTHAMSTEAD
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
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
Brazil - Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
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
Malaysia - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) - Calls - tender - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Malaysia and Indonesia to produce scoping study identifying Malaysian/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
Indonesia - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership S E Asia (WCSSP) - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to produce scoping study identifying Indonesia/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
Malaysia - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Malaysia and Indonesia to produce scoping study identifying Malaysian/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
Philipines - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership S E Asia (WCSSP) - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to produce scoping study identifying Philippines/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
South Africa - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
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. This includes development of modelling capability for enhanced early weather warnings and a capacity building training programme for severe weather forecasting.
Vietnam - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership S E Asia (WCSSP) - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, to produce scoping study identifying Vietnam/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
India - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) - Met Office
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
To undertake research on natural hazards in South Asian Monsoon system (both summer and winter); Improve capability of global coupled, regional convective scale (km) coupled and sub km city scale (300m) modelling frameworks to predict priority natural hazards over India. This will involve a significant observational strand to evaluate coupled models at the process level (see Appendix A for draft observations strategy); and Improve tools and techniques for risk based (Ensemble) forecasting of natural hazards at a range of prediction timescales up to a season ahead as a mechanism/pathway for delivering improved weather and seasonal climate services in country.
Indonesia - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership S E Asia (WCSSP) - Calls - tender - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to produce scoping study identifying Indonesia/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
Philipines - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership S E Asia (WCSSP) - Calls - tender - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to produce scoping study identifying Philippines/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
Vietnam - Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership S E Asia (WCSSP) - Calls - tender - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Strengthened partnership between meteorological services in UK, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, to produce scoping study identifying Vietnam/ S-E Asian region weather forecasting and climate research priorities. This includes training needs analysis for future capacity building work and initial survey of severe weather and DRR services.
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