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Renewables, Climate and Future Industries Tasmania

Climate Research Grants

The Tasmanian Government is supporting Tasmanian businesses, industry and the community to prepare for the risks and opportunities of a changing climate.

The Climate Research Grants Program offered grants of up to $50,000 towards climate change projects that support research, and/or the development of decision support tools, that align with one or more of these seven Tasmanian priority research areas:

  1. Compound extreme events
  2. Agriculture sector
  3. Biosecurity and invasive pests
  4. Tourism sector
  5. Health and wellbeing
  6. Aquaculture and wild fisheries
  7. Tools for decision making

Applications for this program closed in mid-June 2020.

The grants program was heavily oversubscribed, with a large number of high quality applications requesting a total in excess of the available funding.

Successful grant applicants

Organisation

Project

Amount

Compound extreme events

University of Tasmania (UTAS)

Understanding the economic burden of climate-related extreme events: A framework to support future planning and decision making in the health care sector

$49,528

Agriculture sector

Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania - Natural and Cultural Heritage Division

Incorporating Downscaled Climate Projections for Enterprise Suitability and Versatility Maps at 2030 and 2050

Seventeen new maps are now modelled to Climate Futures projection scenarios for 2030 and 2050. The maps are live and available on LISTmap.

$49,909

DairyTas Board Incorporated

Strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of Tasmanian dairy farms

Read the 10 Steps to reduce the carbon footprint of Tasmanian dairying, on the DairyTas website.

$50,000

Cradle Coast Authority

Online Property Management Planning (PMP) Climate Change Module

$16,000

Biosecurity and invasive pests

UTAS

Evaluation of the susceptibility of Tasmania’s agricultural sector to insect pest species under a changing climate

$49,744

Derwent Catchment Project

Biosecurity preparedness in a changing climate: regional planning for the Derwent Catchment

$49,920

UTAS Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)

Mapping warming reefs for management strategy evaluation

$45,532

Tourism sector

Tourism Industry Council Tasmania

Tasmania’s future as a carbon neutral visitor destination

$50,000

Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority

Radcliffe Creek – Understanding complex climate change impacts on a complex cultural heritage site

$40,000

Health and wellbeing

CSIRO

Lutruwita Aboriginal Shell Practice and Ocean Change

$50,000

UTAS

Active Travel: A climate change mitigation strategy to benefit the health of all Tasmanians

$49,990

Aquaculture and wild fisheries

UTAS IMAS

Assessing multidecadal climate-driven shifts for Tasmanian marine species

$48,314

UTAS IMAS

Assessment and communication of risks to Tasmanian aquaculture and fisheries from marine heatwaves

$49,973

Tools for decision making

UTAS

A fire regime model for planned burning and ecological management in a changing climate

$49,743

UTAS

Developing climate adaptation models to guide climate-resilient forest revegetation

$48,305

The University of Melbourne

Trees on farms: a tool for decision making

$50,000

Total

$746,958