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The Australian National University (ANU) Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions (ICEDS) has today announced funding to support exciting interdisciplinary research into a diverse range of climate change, energy transition and disaster risk challenges.

In the second ICEDS Seed Funding Grant round, over $160,000 will support ten ANU projects to conduct novel, additional research across the fields of energy, disaster-risk, and climate. CPAS academics received two of the ten seed funding for this year!

Climate change and its impacts are worsening, increasing the frequency of disasters, and stressing the urgency for rapid decarbonisation and climate adaptation. The ICEDS Seed Funding Grant is designed to foster the interdisciplinary research required to respond to these complex challenges.

For Rini Astuti, the Ideation category provides a unique opportunity for her project to explore creative ways to engage with the public and policymakers. Rini is the Chief Investigator on a project that will look at centering socio-environmental justice issues in critical minerals and energy transition research and policies. “If we want our research to have an impact, it is important to engage with the public. However, research funding is often limited to only cover the cost of conducting the research or can be inflexible. The introduction of a new category that can be customized to our research or project needs, such as this Ideation category, is exactly what we need,” said Rini.  

The other project will be led by Ehsan Navabi, "Synthetic experts: using large language models in climate, energy, and disaster domains."