NRF announces international funding initiative for African climate change researchers

Funding for African researchers who are focused on climate change, has been made available through a collaboration between South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and an international grouping, the Belmont Forum. The NRF is South Africa’s research funding, support, enabling and promotion agency, while the Belmont Forum is a partnership of research funding agencies from 26 countries (including all the major economies) and two international organisations (the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research and the European Union). South Africa, via the NRF, is one of the members of the Belmont Forum. The other African members are Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya. The forum is focused on research regarding global environmental change, and the funding for African climate change researchers will be disbursed through its Collaborative Research Action initiative.