458 projects

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An approach for innovative Climate Learning, Evaluation and Action in Neighbourhoods - CLEAN Cultures

Bottom-up initiatives by individuals and communities are essential to increase acceptance of, and engagement in climate related actions. Yet, conventional strategies addressing these groups often fail to provoke a change in perspectives and actions. CLEANcultures investigated how broadening the p...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Socially Just and Politically Robust Decarbonisation: A Knowledge Base and Toolkit for Policymakers - JUSTDECARB

Climate change mitigation needs urgently to be scaled up, yet attempts to introduce even modest climate policies in many European countries are accused of having unjust distributional effects, prompting aggrieved groups to mobilize politically to block or weaken those policies. Greater knowledge ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Overcoming Obstacles and Disincentives to Climate Change Mitigation: A cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences - 202CM

Researchers at UiB are collaborating with colleagues at L'Université catholique de Louvain i Belgia and L'Université Clermont Auvergne in France, on the project Overcoming Obstacles and Disincentives to Climate Change Mitigation: A cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences. Through the ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies - ROLES

ROLES (https://jpi-climate.eu/project/roles/) aimed to identify how European city-regions can accelerate decarbonisation of energy systems through digitalisation of energy infrastructure in ways that create societal benefits. Despite citizen aspirations to decarbonise society, actions that decarb...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Tourism Risks (TourRISK): A resilient low-carbon, high-yield tourism model for Norway

Climate Risk and the Future of Tourism in Norway Norway has committed to becoming a low-emission society within the next 30 years, but we have seen few measures that make a difference. To achieve the climate goals, society must undergo a profound transformation. All sectors must cut their emissio...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

The big data and climate FRONTIER: making sense of the explosive increase in climate data through smart designs and big data methods

The next frontier of regional climate modelling is not in producing more data, but in producing more information. Climate information is becoming increasingly important for effective planning, adaptation and mitigation to future costs and disruptions arising from climate variability and change. ...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

The Rough Ocean

In the Rough Ocean project, we studied various effects of bathymetry (the ocean bottom) on oceanic flows. "Physical oceanography" concerns the dynamics of the ocean, a major component of the climate system. While some aspects are familiar (the Gulf Stream, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Ci...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Emerging Leaders 2021

Emerging Leaders (EL) er en del av ungdomsprogrammet til Arctic Frontiers og ble første gang organisert i 2012. Hvert år har rundt 30 norske og internasjonale ungdommer deltatt på en "dannelsesreise" gjennom det nordnorske kystlandskap, fra Bodø via Lofoten-Vesterålen til Tromsø for å lære om - o...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Functional responses of forest soil biota to climate change and biochar: ecosystem carbon budget, soil condition and management implications

The society must strive to understand how climate change will affect biodiversity and important processes in our ecosystems. This kind of understanding is necessary for mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in an efficient way. The project ForBioFunCtioN investigates how climate change i...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Klimadult Norge rundt: En workshopturné for kunnskapsdeling og samskaping av beste praksis innen grønn nudging

Nudging is a tool for changing people's behavior, which makes the desired behavior easy, intuitive and attractive to choose. Nudges are small changes made in the choice environment, and can be used to stimulate climate-friendly choices. They are an alternative to injunctions, bans, information ca...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Downscaling Climate and Ocean Change to Services: Thresholds and Opportunities

Global change from anthropogenic forcing will have significant impacts at regional and coastal scales on marine systems and dependent socioeconomic systems and ecosystem services. To understand and predict these impacts on regional seas and coasts is essential for developing robust strategies for...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Downscaling Climate and Ocean Change to Services: Thresholds and Opportunities

The project CE2COAST aims to generate and analyse regional observational datasets and downscaled ocean simulations and deliver advanced understanding of the state, variability and trends of ocean and coastal service pressures. Ocean downscaling relies on outputs of global scale Earth system model...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Living with climate change: motivation and action for lifestyle change (CLIMLIFE)

The CLIMLIFE project 2020–2023 studies how Norwegian citizens relate the challenges of climate change to their normal, day-to-day life choices. While there is broad agreement on the urgency of the situation, people must also go on living their daily lives, attending to needs and interests, our fa...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Effects of energetic electron Precipitation In a Changing climate

The stormy space weather injects energetic particle precipitation (EPP) into the upper atmosphere at high latitudes. EPP produces nitrogen oxides (NOx). NOx has a long chemical lifetime in the winter polar night and descend to stratospheric altitudes via meridional residual circulation. It has a ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Machine Ocean – Combining Machine Learning and Earth Observations to Improve Simulations of Turbulent Behavior in the Earth System

Reliable weather and ocean forecasts are fundamental to society, and researchers are constantly working to improve forecast models. The atmosphere and oceans are parts of the complex system we call the Earth System. Globally, this system is relatively simple: solar energy is absorbed on Earth, an...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

The impact of artificial light on arctic marine organisms and ecosystems during the polar night

Light influences how organisms find food, choose mates, and avoid predators. Natural light cycles regulate internal clocks that determine when organisms rest, reproduce, migrate, and allocate resources. However, artificial light pollution is one of the fastest-growing human-induced stressors. The...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Permafrost ecosystems entangled with human life in Mongolia- evaluating the impact of land use change in a warming climate

The Permafrost4Life project investigates permafrost and climate in Mongolia with a combination of field measurements, remote sensing and numerical modeling. In particular, the project investigates the complex relationship between permafrost, ecosystems and the traditional herder lifestyle that is...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Float Your Boat

Formålet med aktiviteten er å øke forståelsen for klimaprosesser, Arktis og betydningen av forskning gjennom aktiv involvering av skoleelever. Prosjektet er basert på Nansensenterets pågående aktivitet i havet nord for Svalbard. Tilnærmingen er å invitere skolebarn til å bygge små trebåter som de...

Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Frost, flom og tørke - sju historier om klimaet historie

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Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Improving the representation of small-scale nonlinear ocean-atmosphere interactions in Climate Models

To initiate and support societal actions as a response to climate change, future projections of the climate system require high-resolution coupled climate model simulations. An important challenge for high-resolution modelling is the need to resolve processes that have typically been parameterize...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation

MEATigation is a research and industry collaboration project investigating a key step in Norway's transition to a "low-emission society": transforming the food system. A reduction in Western meat consumption is critical for ensuring we have enough food for all the people on the planet, while resp...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Extreme windstorms and related damage

Extreme wind and related damage is an important factor in Norwegian society's general vulnerability to weather and climate, and storm damage (including wind and storm surge) accounts for over half of the private insurance payouts related to natural damage. Planning and mitigating windstorm impact...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

NORTHERN FOREST: A multi-driver framework for near-term iterative forecasting of ecosystem states

The state of an ecosystem is determined by an interplay between biological, physical and human factors. Due to anthropogenic climate change, this interplay is changing in many systems. Since these changes are rapid and the interplay is complex, it is difficult to predict how ecosystem state will ...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Nature In Your Face - Disruptive Climate Change Communication to Trigger Societal Transitions

With less than ten years left to achieve significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, it is essential that we change our lifestyles. So far, there has been broad consensus that citizens should not be overly disturbed, and that changes must be introduced gradually—without questioning people's est...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Erfaringsbasert klimaundervisning – forstå klima med egne observasjoner og analyser av forskningsdata.

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Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Is, Polhavet og klima: Lære fra nordpolarekspedisjoner (ISPOLÆR)

126 years ago Nansen cam back from his at that time exceptional Polar expedition, where the ship Fram was frozen into the sea ice north of Siberia, to drift with the ice over the North Pole towards Greenland/ Svalbard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship)). While the goal to reach the North ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

KlimaMatBordet

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Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Arctic Community Resilience to Boreal Environmental change: Assessing Risks from fire and disease

Increasing risk to Arctic communities from wildfire and vector-borne disease The Arctic has warmed rapidly over recent decades, at 3-4 times the rate of global temperature increase, resulting in dramatic changes to the high latitude Earth system. Key consequences of this warming are increases in...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Health effects and associated socio-economic costs of increasing temperatures and wildfires - A global assessment

Weather and Pollution Impact Our Health: When it gets extremely hot, it affects our health, and these effects are not independent of other factors affecting public health. The most significant environmental risk to our health today is air pollution from emissions both outdoors and indoors. Resear...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Atlantic-Arctic Ocean Exchange

The North Atlantic Current (NAC) is an extension of the Gulf Stream, and transports warm, saline Atlantic water into the Nordic Seas and toward the Arctic. The NAC also represents the northern boundary of the Subtropical Gyre (STG), with the colder and fresher Subpolar Gyre (SPG) to the north. He...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2020

Location: Vestland