Climate Research Grants
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:
- Compound extreme events
- Agriculture sector
- Biosecurity and invasive pests
- Tourism sector
- Health and wellbeing
- Aquaculture and wild fisheries
- 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.
| 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 (PDF). | $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 | |