8 international research projects about climate change
Between 2017 and 2019, the BNP Paribas Foundation has endowed its Climate & Biodiversity Initiative with six million euros and funded eight international research projects.
Key figures
8
projects
178
researchers
73
universities
Sentinels of the sea ice (SENSEI)
Measuring the impact of global warming on seabirds and marine mammal that inhabit the Arctic and Antarctic regions or rely on them for their reproduction.
Project led by Christophe Barbraud and Yan Ropert-Coudert, CNRS at Centre d’études biologiques de Chizé (CNRS/Université la Rochelle).
TROPICOL
Collecting unprecedented data on tropical climates over the past 800,000 years to better define regional climate changes and understand how the tropical forest has reacted to them.
Project led by Marie-Pierre Ledru (Institut des sciences de l’évolution de Montpellier (UM/CNRS/IRD/EPHE)).
BEYOND CLIMATE : SOIL CO2 SEQUESTRATION TO SUSTAIN FAMILY FARMING IN THE TROPICS
SoCa
Better understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon sequestration in tropical agricultural systems and further improving practices in family-based agriculture.
Project led by Lydie Lardy (UMR Eco&Sols - Montpellier SupAgro/CIRAD/INRA/IRD).
THEMES: The Mystery of the Expanding tropics
Better understanding the interaction between climate warming and the Hadley cell (a large-scale atmospheric movement that redistributes heat from the equator to the tropics), which is expanding the subtropical dry zones in the Southern hemisphere.
Project led by Valérie Daux (Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement (LSCE - CNRS/CEA/UVSQ)).
REEF Services
Measuring and predicting the consequences of global warming on the coral reefs and the services they provide (fishing, tourism, coastal protection).
Project led by Valeriano Parravicini (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes).
East Antarctic International Ice Sheet Traverse (EAIIST)
Collecting unprecedented data to model the evolution of East Antarctica, a region still largely unexplored, and its possible consequences on ocean level rise.
Project led by Barbara Stenni (Univerista CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA), Joël Savarino (LGGE (CNRS/ Université Grenoble Alpes)), Detlev Helmig (University of Colorado), Tas van Ommen (Australian Antarctic Division).
Joint Attribution of Biopysical and Economic Impacts of Hydroclimatic Extremes
Modelling extreme climate change events in Africa and their effects to help populations reduce their exposure to these phenomena.
Project led by Mark New (University of Cape Town) and Friederike Otto (University of Oxford).
RE-IMAGINING ANTICIPATORY CLIMATE GOVERNANCE IN THE WORLD'S VULNERABLE REGIONS
Reimagine
More closely accounting for IPCC projections and their impact on economic, political and socio-cultural aspects of governance models in the countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Project led by Joost Vervoort (Utrecht University)
Projects funded from 2013 to 2016
APT: Acceleration Of Permafrost Thaw By Snow-Vegetation Interactions
PREVENTING THE MASSIVE RELEASE OF CO2 FROM THE PERMAFROST
SOCLIM: Southern Ocean and Climate
KNOWING THE SOUTHERN OCEAN BETTER TO PROTECT IT
CPATEMP: Continental Past Temperatures since the Last Glacial Cycle and Recently Developed Organic Biomarkers
LEARNING FROM THE PAST TO IMPROVE CLIMATE CHANGE FORECASTING
INVACOST: Invasive Insects and their Cost Following Climate Change
PREVENTING A MASSIVE INSECT INVASION
FATES: Fast Climate Changes, New Tools to Understand and Simulate the Evolution of the Earth System
STUDYING GLOBAL WARMING OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS
Projects funded from 2010 to 2013
Big Data & Climate
We support the online publishing of the Global Carbon Atlas
Funding from the BNP Paribas Foundation has enabled the Global Carbon Project’s teams to put a working platform online and pool data for researchers worldwide focusing on the carbon cycle.
The Global Carbon Atlas is also a website where the general public can obtain, view and interpret the latest data on the global carbon cycle.
Global Carbon Atlas
www.globalcarbonatlas.orgScientists and research laboratories worldwide created this project, an online application that publishes all CO2 emission data every year.
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