New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)
The 2023 International Initiative for Research on Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change is a collaboration between research funders from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States that seeks to leverage international experience to address the global challenges caused by climate change. Climate change has been recognized as the most important threat to the future well-being and prosperity of our planet and all who inhabit it.
FAPESP and the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for participation in the International Initiative for Research in Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change (IIRCC). The NFRF is administered by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada's research funding agency.
The IIRCC was created to promote interdisciplinary, international, high-risk/high-reward, transformative, and rapid-response research for community-oriented mitigation and adaptation in at least two of the eight main risks representing climate change, outlined in the Sixth Research Report Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In addition to FAPESP, also participating in the IIRCC:German Research Foundation (DFG), U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), The Research Council of Norway (RCN), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), The Wellcome Trust (UK), and National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa.
