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Drought early warning information systems: Towards a new generation of risk-informed decision-support

There are many success stories of researchers and practitioners developing truly risk-informed decision-making systems. This special issue will present some of the most ground-breaking findings, solutions, and lessons learned with a focus on drought.

Frontiers in Climate
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Apply: Averted Disaster Award 2023

Apply for the 2023 Averted Disaster Award. The ADA is the premier recognition of successful disaster mitigation interventions that go unnoticed precisely because of their success. Nominations open November 28, 2022. Applications are due January 15, 2023.

Averted Disaster Award (ADA)
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Share your DRR Master’s degree programmes on PreventionWeb

A chance to showcase your master’s degree programme on the global platform for disaster risk reduction.

PreventionWeb
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Opportunity: Open call launched by Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance

The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab), an investor network that incubates and launches promising investment solutions to address climate change in developing countries, recently opened its call for ideas for the 2023 cycle.

Climate and Development Knowledge Network
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GSMA announces innovation fund to anticipate and improve responses to humanitarian crises

NGOs, INGOs, humanitarian agencies, start-ups, SMEs and social enterprises with digital solutions that enable early action in humanitarian crises situations are invited to apply.

GSMA Mobile for Development
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New award highlights computing's potential to help in climate change crisis: ACM Gordon Bell Prize for climate modelling now accepting nominations

To highlight and encourage more research focused on modelling the devastating impact of climate change, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has established the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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The best climate communication in the world: take part in the CMCC Climate Change Communication Award “Rebecca Ballestra”

Share your innovative projects and initiatives, join the global network of climate change communicators, take part in the contest, and enhance your impact worldwide. Submissions are welcome until 15 June 2023.

Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
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Apply: CDRI Fellowship Programme 2023-24

The CDRI Fellowship Programme invests in cutting-edge research and innovation for disaster and climate resilient infrastructure.

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
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Call for applications: 2023 RISK Award "Climate resilience and early warning"

The RISK Award, endowed with 100,000 € project funding, is jointly organised by UNDRR and Munich Re Foundation. The RISK Award 2023 focuses on early warning, particularly in building resilience to climatic risks.

Munich Re Foundation
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Funding call: Grassroots Action Research Micro-grants

The ARA has launched the Grassroots Action Research Micro-grants, a new funding opportunity for action and research entities to collaborate to unearth knowledge, ideas and opportunities for climate change adaptation in the Global South.

Adaptation Research Alliance