Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible
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Climate Impacts Awards support transdisciplinary teams researching climate change’s health effects and economic costs, combining evidence and community engagement to drive targeted climate policy action.
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Funder: Wellcome Trust
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Scope enquiry) | April 2027 (Full application)
Funding Amounts: Up to £2.5 million per award for up to 3 years
Summary: Supports transdisciplinary research on climate change’s health effects and economic costs, combined with engagement to drive targeted climate policy action.
Key Information: Teams require one lead applicant and 1–7 coapplicants, with climate, health, meteorological and economic expertise.
Description
Wellcome’s Climate Impacts Awards fund short-term, high-impact projects that make climate change’s physical and mental health effects visible to decision makers. Projects generate or synthesise context-specific evidence on direct and environmentally mediated health outcomes attributable to climate change, alongside analysis of their economic consequences. The goal is to strengthen arguments for urgent action on adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage.
The scheme combines policy-relevant research with targeted influencing, communication and meaningful engagement. It prioritises work that involves and serves communities most affected by climate-related health impacts, incorporating their perspectives and those of policy partners throughout project design and delivery. Proposals must connect an evidence gap to a specific, achievable climate policy opportunity and support solutions that can be scaled across settings.
