Global Climate Challenges Incubator

The NSF Directorate for Geosciences Dear Colleague Letter: Build a Resilient Planet, which responds to the NSF Build a Resilient Planet initiative, highlights priority research areas and recognizes the critical importance of geoscience research to advance knowledge, support communities and generate innovative technological solutions that create resilient communities. Both the Dear Colleague Letter and initiative helped inform the incubators priorities.

The Global Climate Challenges Incubator supports innovators creating new knowledge for a sustainable planet through the following programs:

• Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet (CHIRRP): Supports community-driven research partnerships on Earth system hazards to develop actionable solutions that reduce risk and increase social and ecological resilience.
• Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2): Supports collaborative, community-engaged initiatives to develop and implement scalable solutions to climate-related challenges by translating recent research advancements in climate and Earth system science into practical applications.

The incubator also supports international programs, including:

• The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), mandated by Congress, coordinates federal research and investments in understanding the forces shaping the global environment, both human and natural, and their impacts on society. USGCRP facilitates collaboration and cooperation across its 14 federal member agencies, including NSF, to advance understanding of the changing Earth system and maximize efficiencies in federal global change research.
• The Belmont Forum, an international partnership, mobilizes funding for environmental change research and accelerates its delivery to remove critical barriers to sustainability.

The incubator manages awards from programs that are no longer accepting new applications, including:

• Coastlines and People Hubs for Research and Broadening Participation (CoPe): Supports multi-institutional coastal research hubs that study the interactions between natural, human-built and social systems in coastal populated environments.