Climate Crisis and Disasters Resilience Research Center (CLIMARES)

• Grant number: 24/00949-5
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC
• Start date: July 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2030
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Meteorology
• Principal Investigator: Tercio Ambrizzi
• Grantee: Tercio Ambrizzi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Energia e Ambiente (IEE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Principal investigators: Carlos Afonso Nobre ; Chou Sin Chan ; Claudia Roberta de Castro Moreno ; Cristiano Mazur Chiessi ; Eduardo Amaral Haddad ; Eduardo Mario Mendiondo ; ILDO LUIS SAUER ; Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini ; Leila da Costa Ferreira ; Pedro Roberto Jacobi ; Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha
• Associated researchers: Adelaide Cassia Nardocci ; Betzabeth Slater Villar ; Bruno Peregrina Puga ; Carlos Eduardo Keutenedjian Mady ; Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari ; Daniela Carneiro Rodrigues Porto Pontes ; Débora Olivato ; Diego Oliveira Brandão ; Eduardo Delgado Assad ; Enner Herenio de Alcântara ; Erick Del Bianco Pelegia ; Felipe Antonio de Lima Toledo ; Fernando Ramos Martins ; Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto ; Gabriel Andres Castro Falcon ; Gabriel Marinho e Silva ; Glauston Roberto Teixeira de Lima ; Haline de Vasconcellos Rocha ; Ilana Elazari Klein Coaracy Wainer ; Irineu de Brito Junior ; Javier Tomasella ; Jeferson Cristiano Tavares ; Jorge Luís Gomes ; JOSE IRIVALDO ALVES OLIVEIRA SILVA ; Jurandir Zullo Junior ; Karen Badaraco Costa ; Lauro Euclides Soares Barata ; Leandra Regina Gonçalves Torres ; Leandro Luiz Giatti ; Leonardo Bacelar Lima Santos ; Leticia Maria Cavole ; Luciana de Resende Londe ; Lucy Gomes Sant'Anna ; Luis Felipe Normandia Lourenço ; Luis Marcelo de Mattos Zeri ; Luiz Felippe Gozzo ; Luz Adriana Cuartas Pineda ; Marcelo Pinho Almeida ; Márcia Caruso Bícego ; Marcos Egydio da Silva ; Maria Luísa de Carvalho de Albuquerque Schmidt ; Maria Tereza Pepe Razzolini ; Marília de Carvalho Campos Garcia ; Marília de Oliveira Felten ; Marina Batalini de Macedo ; Michael Moses Aba ; Nathalia Cristina Costa do Nascimento ; Nilton Bispo Amado ; Pedro Henrique Campello Torres ; Pedro Ivo Mioni Camarinha ; Priscila Rosseto Camiloti ; Rachel Trajber ; Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá ; Regla de la Caridad Duthit Somoza ; Renata Hanae Nagai ; Ricardo da Silva Benedito ; Roberto Zilles ; Rochane de Oliveira Caram ; Ronaldo Adriano Christofoletti ; Saulo Batista de Oliveira ; Silvia Midori Saito ; Sonia Regina da Cal Seixas ; Sueli Angelo Furlan ; Suzana Maria Gico Lima Montenegro ; Thiago Nogueira ; Thiago Pereira dos Santos ; Thomas Kenji Akabane ; Valeriana Augusta Broetto ; Victor Marchezini ; Vinícius Bigogno Costa ; Vinícius Ribau Mendes ; Vivian Aparecida Blaso Souza Soares Cesar ; Welson Bassi ; Zenaida Luisa Lauda Rodriguez
• Associated research grant(s): 25/12833-4 - Imagining adaptation futures: a south-north collaboration on urban climate resilience, AP.R SPRINT; 25/15959-9 - Multiuser equipment approved in the grant 2024/00949-5: Supermicro SuperServer Dual Intel Xeon 6448Y 4th generation with data storage and accessories, AP.EMU; 25/19017-8 - Multi-user equipment approved in grant 24/00949-5: DELTA Q mass spectrometer (HD ready) and components, AP.EMU
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/23623-0 - Dynamic downscaling for past warm climates over South America and Atlantic, BP.PD; 25/21560-1 - How the temporal organization of society affects the health of older people in rural and urban areas?, BP.PD

Abstract

Brazil has shown an increase in the frequency of extreme weather and climate events in recent decades, especially in the last decade. All Brazilian biomes and populations were affected, while those living in susceptible areas as well as indigenous communities suffered the most. For example, disasters triggered by extreme rainfall have been the cause of thousands of deaths, which could have been avoided if society had become resilient to the climate crisis. It is urgent to empower society so that it has the capacity to adapt and, if necessary, transform to acquire resilience in the face of the impacts of the climate crisis. The proposed CEPID (Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center) CLIMARES will have the mission to work on innovation for adaptation and resilience in the face of the climate crisis, disasters and impacts in strategic sectors in Brazil such as food, energy, water and economy. The knowledge acquired by groups and institutions that are part of CLIMARES like INCLINE (in relation to the basic science of climate change), CEPED (in relation to research on hydrological disasters), Rede CLIMA (in relation to research and development of the National Plan for Climate Change), INCT MC1 and MC2 (which implemented and developed a comprehensive interdisciplinary research network on global change, climate crisis and sustainability), CEMADEN (the main center of hydro-geo-meteorological disaster alerts in Latin America) and Amazonia 4.0 project (to demonstrate ways to merge technologies with indigenous' and local communities' knowledge for Amazonia), make CLIMARES unique not only on a national level, but throughout the Americas. Furthermore, the center will be hosted at the IEE (Institute of Energy and Environment) at University of São Paulo, a reference for studies on renewable energy, energy planning and the environment. The center will work on 11 thematic axes that interact and complement each other to achieve its mission, namely: 1) Climate Change and Variability; 2) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management; 3) Energy Transition and Technology; 4) Food Security and Hunger Reduction; 5) Water Security and Adaptive Management; 6) Health Security and Pandemic Risk; 7) Education and Dissemination of Knowledge; 8) Innovation in Climate Intervention; 9) Social Transformation in the Face of Climate Change; 10) Economic Impacts Influenced by the Climate Crisis; and 11) Amazonia: Technological Development and Sustainability. These axes are integrated into the topic of climate change, already show interactions and are supported by well-established ongoing projects by the various groups that are part of this proposal. Interdisciplinarity is guaranteed within this integrative proposal with physical, chemical, biological, socioeconomic and health aspects working together. The coordinators of each thematic axis are renowned researchers active in the area, ensuring that CLIMARES will be developed considering the state of the art in science and innovation. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LAZARO, L. L. B.; GIATTI, L. L.; SIMOES, A. F.; GIAROLLA, A.; JACOBI, P. R.; OLIVEIRA, J. A. P.. Corporate lobbying, agribusiness, and climate change politics in Brazil's bioenergy transition. ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE, v. 129, p. 17-pg., 2025-11-01. (24/00949-5, 21/11380-5, 17/17796-3)

CAVACO, ISABELA CARMO; CAMPELLO TORRES, PEDRO HENRIQUE. Climate shelters in the Global South: bridging a critical research gap in urban climate adaptation. FRONTIERS IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT, v. 11, p. 7-pg., 2025-10-13. (25/01741-1, 24/00949-5)