related projects
Members of climes lead and participate in multiple research projects to understand and mitigate the impacts of climate extremes.
(Members of climes in bold.)
Closing the loop: Attribution of complex climate disasters to climatic and to policy change (CLOSER)
Project Lead: Gabriele Messori
Duration: 2026–2030
CLOSER investigates how complex climate-related disasters can be attributed to both climatic factors and policy decisions. The project aims to improve understanding of disaster causation and inform policy for effective climate risk management.
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Synchronized detrimental climatic events and global food security: roles of climate change and agricultural management practices
Project Lead: Gabriele Messori
Duration: 2026–2030
This project examines the effects of simultaneous extreme climatic events on global food security, exploring the interplay between climate change and agricultural management practices. The aim is to inform strategies for improving resilience in food systems.
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The impact of air temperature variability on public health in a changing climate: past trends, ongoing adaptation, and future scenarios (AIR-DATES)
Project Lead: Elena Raffetti
Duration: 2026–2030
This project investigates how variability in air temperatures affects public health, examining past trends, current adaptation strategies, and potential future scenarios. It aims to provide actionable insights for planning health responses under climate change.
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AI Support for Transforming Surfaces into Multifunctional Green Spaces Duration: 2024–2027
Project Lead: Olof Mogren
Duration: 2024–2027
This project is developing an AI- and GIS-based decision support tool to optimise how impervious urban surfaces can be transformed into multifunctional green spaces, improving climate resilience, ecosystem services, and urban quality of life.
CLIMES Doctoral Network
Project Lead: Gabriele Messori
Duration: 2026–2030
This doctoral network focuses on training and collaboration related to climate extremes and their impacts. It supports the development of early-career researchers within an international research and training framework.
ASCEND: Unpacking non-economic loss and damage to advance science and policy action in Africa
Project Lead: Emily Boyd
Duration: 2025–2026
This project synthesises data on non-economic loss and damage (harm to health, culture, biodiversity, and social systems) across Africa to identify key risks and trends and support evidence-based policymaking and equitable climate action.
The project is part of the BAOBAB synthesis research teams that are supported through the BAOBAB project, which is jointly funded by UK aid through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands as part of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) research programme and Step Change initiative.
Ecological Loss and Damage (ElnD)
Project Lead: Emily Boyd
Duration: 2024–2025
This project focuses on ecological loss and damage related to climate change, addressing impacts on ecosystems and their significance for society. It contributes to advancing knowledge on ecological dimensions of climate impacts.
Adapting to temperature extremes in pregnant women and infants: past trends and future scenarios (PRoMEThEUS)
Project Lead: Elena Raffetti
Duration: 2025–2027
This project examines the impacts of temperature extremes on pregnant women and infants, focusing on past trends and future scenarios. The work supports improved understanding of vulnerability and health risks linked to climate extremes.
Resist
Project Lead: Emily Boyd
Duration: 2019-2024
TRANSIST: From Everyday Forms of Resistance to Transformational Climate Change Adaptation of the Urban Poor
Project Lead: Emily Boyd
Duration: 2019-2024
TRANSIST focuses on challenges faced by urban poor communities in Africa due to climate change, particularly in informal settlements. It examines barriers to implementing effective, transformative state policies and adaptation strategies to mitigate risks such as flooding and social injustices. The project aims to propose actionable measures to overcome these challenges, fostering sustainable development and resilience.
DICE: Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes
Project Lead: Emily Boyd
Duration: 2019-2022
DICE explores the disproportionate impacts of climate change, focusing on non-economic loss and damage (L&D) across diverse sites and sectors. By integrating human experiences and innovative methodologies, the project advances understanding of L&D, develops governance tools, and contributes to sustainable climate transitions.
ICARUS: Illuminating Power Dynamics in Cross-Scale Adaptation for More Resilient and Just Futures
Project Lead: Emily Boyd
Duration: 2023-2026
ICARUS investigates the intersection of power, politics, and cross-scale climate adaptation to foster resilience and justice. By analyzing adaptation governance across Skåne, Sweden, and East Anglia, UK, the project addresses knowledge gaps in adaptation’s social and political contexts. This research emphasizes collective action and empowerment to tackle climate risks and vulnerabilities effectively.
ITHACA: ImmobiliTy in a cHAnging ClimAte
Project Lead: Emily Boyd
Duration: 2024-2027
ITHACA investigates how (im)mobility influences adaptation mechanisms to climate change. By bringing together an international, interdisciplinary team, this project explores the under-researched concept of immobility, offering innovative insights and opening new areas of climate adaptation research. The findings aim to advance our understanding of adaptation strategies in diverse geographic contexts. Click here to read more.
ClimTip: Quantifying climate tipping points and their impacts
Project Lead: Niklas Boers
Co-PI and Workstream Lead: Gabriele Messori
Duration: 2024-2029
This EU-funded project brings together a global consortium of 22 partners from 12 countries to investigate large-scale climate tipping points. Focusing on elements such as the Amazon rainforest, Atlantic overturning circulation, and polar ice sheets, ClimTip aims to quantify risks, predict events with improved Earth system models, and develop early warning systems. The project will provide critical insights to guide mitigation and adaptation strategies for a more sustainable future.
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FERTITEC: FERTIliser Product Recovery from Secondary Raw Materials Using Available Techniques Duration
Project Lead: Cheryl Marie Cordeiro
Sub Project Lead: Olof Mogren
Duration: 2024-2028
This project aims to develop innovative techniques for recovering fertilizer products from secondary raw materials, enhancing sustainability and reducing waste. By leveraging existing technologies and enhancing them with novel algorithms based on artificial intelligence, FERTITEC will optimize recovery processes and contribute to more efficient resource utilization. The project’s outcomes will include improved recovery methods and practical applications for the agricultural sector.
Novel risk factors for cardiovascular disease during pregnancy in whole populations of the UK
Project Lead: Elena Raffetti
Duration: 2023-2026
This research explores novel risk factors for cardiovascular disease during pregnancy across the entire population of the UK, aiming to enhance understanding and prevention strategies for maternal health.
Dynamic Adaptation to Temporally compound hydroclimate Extremes: supporting a sustainable transformation under global changes (DATE)
Project Lead: Elena Raffetti
Duration: 2024-2027
This project explores temporally compound hydroclimate extremes, aiming to improve adaptation strategies and evaluate future societal and public health impacts to support sustainable transformation efforts.
Adapting to Temperature Extremes in a Changing Climate: Past Trends and Future Scenarios (ADATES)
Project Lead: Elena Raffetti
Duration: 2023-2026
This interdisciplinary project, funded by FORMAS, investigates the health impacts of non-optimal and extreme temperatures in Sweden, focusing on vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and future scenarios. It involves a unique collaboration among experts from different fields and institutions, aiming to inform socially just climate adaptation policies.
Active Learning for Ecological Monitoring
Project Lead: Olof Mogren
Duration: 2023-2024
This project focuses on creating advanced active learning algorithms for ecological monitoring, enhancing data collection and analysis accuracy. Aimed at automating monitoring devices, it will adapt and extend current active learning approaches, producing scientific publications and demonstrating techniques on real-world applications. Click here to read more.
Advanced Database of the Effects of Extreme Climate Events in Europe from Online Texts
Project Leads: Gabriele Messori, Joakim Nivre
Duration: 2023 – 2026