Call for Proposals: Exploring Climate Cooling—Backed by £56.8m, this programme will explore whether approaches designed to delay, or avert, climate tipping points could be feasible, scalable, and safe

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Poster's note: Submit your concept paper by 7 October

https://www.aria.org.uk/exploring-climate-cooling/

13 September 2024

ARIA announced the launch of Exploring Climate Cooling programme. 

Climate change could cause global temperatures to increase by several degrees by the end of the century, precipitating climate tipping points with serious and irreversible consequences. 

While the only sustainable way to reduce the risk of such tipping events is through decarbonisation, the risk of crossing one or more tipping points in the near future has driven increased interest in approaches to actively reduce global temperatures in the shorter term. In the absence of robust data, we have little understanding of whether such interventions are scientifically sound, effective, or what their full range of impacts might be, 

Backed by £56.8m, this programme will collect essential missing data and seek to answer the fundamental scientific questions required to reach more definitive conclusions on whether any potential approaches for cooling the Earth could be feasible, scalable, and safe.

Find out more about the programme, our approach to responsible governance, and apply for funding here.

Key submission dates

Concept paper window: 13th September - 7th October

We are now accepting three-page concept papers, which we’ll assess and feedback whether applicants are encouraged or discouraged from submitting a full proposal. We strongly encourage teams to do this as it has produced substantially stronger proposals across ARIA’s other programmes. 

Full proposal window: 8th November - 9th December

Applicants can submit an eight page, full proposal during these dates. You can still submit a full proposal if you miss the concept paper window or if you are discouraged from a full application. However, I highly recommend submitting a concept paper.

Teaming

Our teaming tool is still live, so if you would like to submit a combined proposal with potential collaborators, register your interest for our teaming platform. If you have already registered your interest, you can find a list of pseudonymised collaborators in ARIA’s confirmation email. Please make sure to check your junk folders.

Clarifications

For any questions relating to the call, please submit your question to clarifi...@aria.org.uk. Please note that Programme Directors cannot answer questions about live calls.

Source: ARIA