FAPESP efforts in funding Climate Change Projects in São Paulo:

current landscape

Prof. Dr. Newton La Scala Jr.

FCAV/UNESP

SP SAS Climate Change

July 2017, São Paulo, Brazil

FAPESP: The Research Council of São Paulo State

• Mission: support research in all fields

• Annual budget: 1% of State revenues (about 400 millions US$)

• Support: fellowships, research grants to academic projects, university-industry projects, small business R&D projects

• Special Programs: Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Global Climate Change

The FAPESP Climate Change Program will consider proposals for research which fall within the scope of the Program:

a) Consequences of global climate change in the functioning of ecosystems, with emphasis on biodiversity and the water, carbon and nitrogen cycles. b) Balance of radiation in the atmosphere, aerosols, trace gases and changes in land uses. c) Global climate change and agriculture and livestock farming. d) Energy and greenhouse gas effects: emissions and mitigation. e) Climate change and effects on human health. f)Human dimensions of global climatic changes: impacts, vulnerabilities and social and economic responses, including adaptation to the climate changes.

Calls of Proposal: International Collaboration

Total invested ~R$ 130 millions (2008-2017)

The Physical Science Basis

Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Mitigation

Deadline: 25 September, 2017

• Projects in FAPESP Climate Change program is directed to several fields

• Those projects are related to physical basis, impact, vulnerability and adaptation and mitigation

• Strong participation of international programs (GoAmazon, Belmont Forum...)

• FAPESP is willing to cooperate with international partness

Summary

THANK YOU! lascala@fcav.unesp.br