IDRC and granting councils fund climate change research

The International Development Research Centre and Canada's three federal granting councils have joined forces to fund five research teams under the International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change. Five projects will each receive $2.5 million over five years for a total of $12.5 million to conduct research in Canada and in developing countries across four continents. Each team will be led by a Canadian and a foreign researcher. The projects and their Canadian leaders are: Coastal Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacity for Managing Climate Change in Coastal Megacities (Gordon McBean, Univ of Western Ontario); Adapting to Climate Change: Protecting Water Resources in West Africa and Canada (Taha Ouarda, Institut national de la recherché scientifique); Partnership for Canada-Caribbean Community Climate Change Adaptation (Daniel Scott, Univ of Waterloo); Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change (James Ford and Lea Berring Ford, McGill Univ); and, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: Extremes in the Americas (David Sauchyn, Univ of Regina)….