- The initiative, led by the US NSF, funds international, interdisciplinary, collaborative clean energy research and climate change.
- The UK investment of £18m is across four projects in track one of the Global Centers programme.
The United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia have invested a combined £61m in a global centre for clean energy and climate change research. The initiative, led by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), is funding international, interdisciplinary collaborative research on use-inspired themes in clean energy and climate change. It is also creating an ecosystem of global centres generating outcomes and solutions that benefit society in our efforts to tackle the climate crisis.
The US National Science Foundation’s Global Centers project would research hard-to-carbonise sectors. The UK funding for the project includes support for greener fuel production and cleaner power. The UK investment of £18m is across four projects in track one of the Global Centers programme, with funding provided through UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI’s) Building a Green Future fund and International Science Partnerships Fund.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada, and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia, also invest in centres.
The chief executive officer at UKRI, Dame Ottoline Leyser, said, “We are excited to partner with our sister organisations in the US, Canada and Australia to accelerate progress toward this crucial goal. Our combined investment in Global Centers enables exciting researcher and innovation-led international and interdisciplinary collaboration to drive the energy transition. I look forward to seeing the creative solutions developed through these global collaborations.”