Climate Catalyst Awards

The Climate Solutions Research Collective is launching a new Catalyst Award in 2026 with two program streams!

The objectives of the Collective are to:  

  • Foster engagement among UBC researchers interested in all aspects of climate solutions. 
  • Encourage new interdisciplinary collaborations on climate challenges at local, national, and international levels. 
  • Support students and faculty in applying research and expertise towards climate solutions and raise external awareness of that work. 
Based on these program objectives, the goal of the Catalyst Awards is to provide seed funds to develop, support and strengthen collaborative research on climate solutions across all disciplines at UBC. Specifically, successful applications will address one or more of the following:  
  • Help promote and catalyse new interdisciplinary solutions-focused climate research projects (research);  
  • Raise external awareness of timely solutions-oriented climate research conducted by UBC faculty (engagement); and/or  
  • Bring people together and/or help launch a new idea or initiative around solutions-focused climate research (research and engagement).  
Two streams have been established to achieve these objectives:  

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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