WCSSP South Africa Grant Funding FY25/26

Description

The WCSSP South Africa project aims to build and strengthen equitable partnerships amongst the UK and South African weather and climate science and services communities, to inform actions and policy that reduces risk, safeguards lives and livelihoods, and promote resilience, economic development, and social welfare in a changing climate. The project achieves this through enabling collaborations that advance innovative science and services development, across weather, seasonal, and long-term climate change timescales. The project is a partnership between the Met Office, research organisations in the UK, and a range of institutes in South Africa: South African Weather Service (SAWS), Alliance for Collaboration on Climate & Earth System Science (ACCESS), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Agricultural Research Council (ARC), and the Global Change Institute (GCI) at the University of the Witwatersrand. WCSSP South Africa has made great progress in advancing collaborative weather and climate science and service development for the benefit of the UK and South Africa. It aligns with, and builds on, other projects and partnerships, such as the Unified Model partnership between the Met Office and SAWS. WCSSP South Africa will be offering funding opportunities for the following grant funded projects; SA25_2.4 - Advancing attribution methods and applications SA25_3.7 - Water modelling for assessing climate change-induced impacts of drought on water security in South Africa SA25_4.6 - Informing context-specific needs for impact-based early warning systems Keywords: WCSSP South Africa, Research, Weather and Climate Science, South Africa, Grant