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Overshoot: Communicating the risks of exceeding and returning to a 1.5°C level of global warming

Effective communication is crucial in preparing researchers and policymakers for decisions related to global warming. As exceeding the 1.5°C threshold becomes inevitable, it's vital that all stakeholders understand the implications and act swiftly. The toolkit will explain the implications of ove...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Myrtassen: Story driven popular science for school children about peatlands and peatmosses

Children are the decision-makers of the future, and understanding of and knowledge about nature is a necessary starting point for preserving nature. However, fewer children play freely outdoors as a part of daily life. We will use narrative popular science about peatland ecosystems (storification...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Northern Lights: Bridging the gap between academia and SMEs to address climate change in an Arctic perspective

Prosjektet "Northern Lights: Bridging the gap between academia and SMEs to address climate change in an Arctic perspective" tar sikte på å fremme samarbeidet mellom akademia, SMBer og bransjeorganisasjoner for å takle klimaendringer fra et arktisk perspektiv. Arrangementet, som finner sted fra 01...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2024

We are applying for funding for the "International Sustainability Transitions" Conference organised in Oslo between 16-20 June 2024. The conference is organised on behalf of, but not limited to, a large and growing international professional network – the Sustainability Transitions Research Netwo...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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NFRF: Community water systems: Climate vulnerabilities and resilience opportunities

All life is dependent upon water and is connected to it in entangled, profound ways. But this relationship changes as climate breakdown impacts water and landscapes through unprecedented droughts and flooding, lacking rainfall, heavier rainfall, dwindling water sources, poorer water quality, disp...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Klimafestivalen Varmere Våtere Villere 2024

En bred allianse fra sivilsamfunn, næringsliv, akademia og lokale myndigheter arbeidet gjennom hele 2021 med konseptet for klimafestivalen Varmere Va°tere Villere. Vi har på rekordtid klart å etablere en ny møteplass for klimakunnskap og -diskusjon, og vil strategisk jobbe videre med å bygge en n...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Vestland

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Climate-driven methane outgassing at terrestrial and marine-terminating glacier margins

Methane emissions from retreating Arctic glaciers have the potential to increase significantly over the rest of the 21st Century. These emissions will make management of greenhouse gas levels difficult during a critical period for climate change mitigation. Our project has provided new informatio...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Svalbard

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Predicting the impact of drought and increased temperatures on boreal forest ecosystems in Norway

Climate change can pose major challenges for Norwegian forests. The boreal zone is warming twice as fast as the global average, but we know little about how our forests will react to these changes. On the one hand, rising temperatures and a longer growing season will probably stimulate increased ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

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CHIPOLATA - Climate change and harvesting impacts on the pelagic fish community of Lake Tanganyika

The pelagic ecosystem in Lake Tanganyika is of tremendous importance for biological diversity and the local communities around the lake. The nearly 100,000 fishermen catch up to 200,000 tonnes of fish each year. In comparison, only cod and herring have larger catches in the Norwegian fisheries. M...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Democratic Innovations for the Age of Climate Change

The 2024 Arne Næss symposium features David Van Reybrouck, one of the most exciting Belgian historians, writers and climate activists. Van Reybrouck is an internationally acclaimed author of Congo: The Epic History of a People, which won 19 prizes and has been translated into a dozen languages. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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From Climatic Drivers to Antarctic Ice Sheet Response: Improving Accuracy in Sea Level Rise Projections

Sea level rise, mainly caused by the melting of glaciers and ice sheets and the expansion of seawater when it warms, is one of the biggest threats imposed on us by climate warming. Today, we expect sea levels to rise by about 60 cm by the end of this century. Still, if the rate of greenhouse gas ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Climate Change impact on the marine Coastal ecosystem of Kerala (C3-eKerala)

Coastal areas with high population density are on the frontline of the unprecedented impacts of climate change. One of the most vulnerable ones in India is Kerala state’s coast, which is also the most densely populated coastal zone along the country’s western coast. The project C3-eKerala is an I...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

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TRACKING RISKS IN FUTURE EMISSIONS, CLIMATE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS

TRIFECTA Year 2: Confronting the Risks of a Net-Zero Future The past year has done little to calm anxieties about the climate's trajectory. As global temperatures continue to shatter records, the world is testing the limits of the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C goal. In this critical decade, the TRIFEC...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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EU Climate Policy Implications for Land Use in Norway: Managing Trade-offs and Achieving Policy Coherence

EU climate policy will have great significance for Norwegian climate, energy, forestry, and land-use policy in the years leading up to 2030 and beyond. Conflicts and trade-offs between climate, energy, and nature considerations are challenges that we will increasingly have to deal with. The Clima...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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Accelerating Climate Action and the State: Getting to Net Zero (ACCELZ)

The Paris Agreement’s goal of pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels requires global emissions to peak as soon as possible and reach net-zero by 2050. This cannot happen without unprecedented acceleration of climate action. Getting to net-zero repr...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Governing under turbulence: The European Green Deal and implications for Norway

The European Green Deal highlights the EU’s aspirations and critical role in encouraging progressive climate policies. The EU must secure support for this ambitious package from a divided Europe at great speed. At the national level, states need to coordinate the implementation of vast amounts of...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Flying less and well-being. Engaging Norwegians in reducing the flight intensity of social practices.

The goal of FLYWELL is to engage people and organizations in Norway in reducing the environmental impact of flight-intensive practices. For many people, air travel is linked to high quality of life. Travelling for work, leisure, sports, and family is often associated with experiences of relatedne...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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From climate knowledge to climate action in sport

What is organized sport's climate footprint, and what aspects of sporting activity generate the largest greenhouse gas emissions? What are efficient measures to reduce sport’s climate footprint? How do leaders of sport organizations understand climate change as a policy domain, and how do they c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Nature-based solutions for end use of degraded peat – impacts on climate, biodiversity and policy (PEATWAY)

PEATWAY investigates different nature-based solutions (NBS) for end-use of degraded peat and peat deposits as a solution for climate mitigation and adaptation in Norway. PEATWAY addresses the most critical knowledge gaps related to sustainable peat and peatland use in Norway namely by 1) quantify...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Plankton size and planktivore competition along the Norwegian coast and fjords: ecological implications of warmer and darker waters

Coastal waters are some of the most productive of marine ecosystems. In a changing climate, coastal waters are getting warmer and darker, and the ecological implications are unknown. In this project we will study how the foraging opportunities for pelagic fish (herring, sprat, mackerel etc.) may ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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I-CRYME: Impact of CRYosphere Melting on Southern Ocean Ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles

Global warming is transforming Antarctica; melting the cryosphere (the ice caps, the glaciers and the sea ice); affecting the Southern Ocean physical dynamics and elemental cycles; and impacting the marine ecosystems and their capacity to absorb the atmospheric CO2 emitted by men. The Southern ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Incorporating Marine Ecosystem Damages into Integrated Risk Assessment of Climate Change and Mitigation Strategies to Evaluate Policies

The project integrates marine ecosystem interactions into an economic integrated assessment model of climate change. The underlying Analytic Climate Economy (ACE) model is at the forefront of explicitly integrating uncertainties about climate change and its interactions with the socioeconomic sys...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Building Resilient Blue Places? The importance of Equity and Blue Space in Assembling a Blue Economy in the context of Climate Change

BLUEPLACES is a three-year research project that will help to increase the resilience of Norway’s coastal communities in the face of a rapidly changing climate. The Norwegian government has ambitious plans for the nation’s ‘Blue Economy’; to ensure the future prosperity of coastal and oceanic co...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

The Cold Cast - en podcast om forskning i Arktis.

The ColdCast is a podcast series about research in the Arctic, with students and staff from the University Center in Svalbard as guests. Through eight episodes, the listener has been introduced to various topics being researched in the Arctic: ocean currents, PFAS, weather, climate and safety. An...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Svalbard

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Sirkulære Nordhordland

What does sustainability mean on a local scale? How is the knowledge that underpins sustainable development produced? In the traveling exhibition Sirkulære Nordhordland, we explore the Sustainable Development Goals in a regional context within Norway's only UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The exhibitio...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Support to arrange the 6th International Conference in Arctic Fox Biology in Longyearbyen, Svalbard 2022

The 6th international conference in arctic fox biology will for the first time be organized and located in Norway. Circumpolar arctic fox biologists have since 1991, established a network that have arranged five international conferences in arctic fox biology. The location for the conference are ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

MoseVis – et populærvitenskapelig formidlingsprosjekt om torvmoser og myr som karbonfangere

Peatlands hold large carbon stocks below ground and are important in future climate mitigation. I Norway, biodiversity of peatland types and peatmosses are globally important, giving Norway a large responsibility to conserve it. At the same time, the irreplaceable carbon stock is kept. To engage ...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Supply-side and demand-side perspectives on climate policies

Prof. Böhringer will stay in Oslo to take part in a research camp including researchers from University of Oldenburg, SSB and NMBU. Its purpose is to gain significant progress in an initiated international collaboration project. The project addresses the different consequences of mitigating carb...

Awarded: NOK 62,999

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

14th International Conference on Paleoceanography

The International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP) will be organised in Bergen from Aug 29th to September 2nd, 2022. Every three years since 1983, the paleoceanographic community has come together at different venues to share new data and discoveries. In 2022 the conference will be arranged i...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Attributing climate-change induced global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes

This project will bring Dr. Ben Marzeion from the University of Bremen to the Department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo to collaborate on a research project on investigating anthropogenic versus natural causes in past global glacier mass loss. Glaciers have contributed more to sea-level...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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