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Call for new green innovations to tackle climate change | |
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2018-10-19 | |
发布年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | Britain's best innovators and researchers will be invited to pitch their ideas to help tackle the effects of climate change on towns, cities and the countryside as part of modern Industrial Strategy. Business & Energy Secretary Greg Clark today (19 October) announced four new NERC-led research programmes to boost the UK's resilience to climate change, develop digital environments, promote clean air and investigate how to use our land to boost health outcomes. The £60 million funding pot was announced during the first ever Green GB Week - a government-led week of campaigning to encourage businesses, communities, funders and academics to renew their efforts to confront the global challenge of climate change. The government has put clean growth at the heart of its modern Industrial Strategy, setting out ambitions to reduce carbon emissions while supporting a thriving green economy. Earlier this week the UK became one of the first major industrial economies to ask climate change experts for advice on setting a target for achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions from across the economy. Business Secretary Greg Clark said:
UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) Chief Executive, Professor Sir Mark Walport, said:
The programmes, administered by UKRI, will bring together a broad range of research disciplines, ranging from mathematics and biology to climate science and technology development to:
Chief Scientist of the Met Office, Professor Stephen Belcher, said:
Competitions for the programmes will open in the coming weeks. Researchers and innovators can visit the UKRI website for updates. The funding comes as part of the Strategic Priorities Fund, delivered by UKRI to drive an increase in high quality multi- and interdisciplinary research and innovation. It will ensure that UKRI's investment links up effectively with government research priorities and opportunities. Further programmes will be announced in the coming months. Further informationIone Bingley Notes1. The four research programmes are: UK Climate ResilienceNERC and the Met Office, with the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), Defra, and the Committee on Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Committee Funding: £18·7 million The programme will harness multidisciplinary expertise to deliver robust climate risk and solutions research, which ensures the UK is resilient to climate variability and change, and powerfully positioned to exploit the opportunities of adaptation and green growth. Coming together with policymakers and industry, the programme will bring impacts that benefit the UK economy and safeguard the public. Clean Air: Analysis and SolutionsNERC and the Met Office, with EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, the Medical Research Council, the National Physical Library, GO-Science, Defra, the Department of Health & Social Care, and the Department for Transport Funding: £19·6 million Air pollution is responsible for up to 40,000 early deaths and a cost of up to £20 billion to health services and businesses every year. This programme will develop solutions to air pollution to help policymakers and businesses protect health and work towards a cleaner economy. The programme will predict future air quality challenges, identify the most vulnerable groups in society, improve new technologies and policies for reducing air pollution, and create a system for providing robust consistent advice to decision-makers. Constructing a Digital EnvironmentNERC, with EPSRC and Defra Funding: £10·4 million This programme will apply the latest technologies to environmental data from sensor networks across the UK, to deliver information in unprecedented detail. This will enable the construction of an integrated, digital picture of our natural environment, bringing benefit to policymakers and other users by enabling better decision-making across a range of sectors, and increasing the opportunity to gain value from natural resources and mitigate environmental challenges. Landscape DecisionsNERC, with the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council, EPSRC, ESRC, Defra, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Rothamsted Research (funding subject to peer review), and the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Funding: £10·5 million This programme will develop a new understanding to help individuals, communities and country make the best choices regarding land use in the UK. Experts from the environment, biology, health, social, and arts and humanities will research together, supporting real-world decisions with solutions for the informed use of land, and deliver improvements to our health, well-being and economy. 2. UKRI works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. We aim to maximise the contribution of each of our component parts, working individually and collectively. We work with our many partners to benefit everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas. Operating across the whole of the UK with a combined budget of more than £6 billion, UKRI brings together the seven research councils, Innovate UK and a new organisation, Research England. |
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