Living With Environmental Change
Emerging funding opportunities
Certain NERC research programmes have been accredited as within LWEC and as working towards LWEC aims.
Information about the status of such activities and opportunities can be found under these headings:
- Algal Bioenergy programme
- Arctic Research Programme
- Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS)
- Changing Water Cycle
- Coastal Sediment Systems
- Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation
- Environmental & Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases
- Environmental Exposure & Health Initiative
- Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards
- Insect Pollinators Initiative
- Joint Weather & Climate Research Programme
- Land Based Renewables
- Macronutrient Cycles
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Next Generation Weather & Climate Prediction
- Ocean Acidification
- Probability, Uncertainty & Risk in the Environment (PURE)
- Storm Risk Mitigation
- Urban Atmospheric Science
- Valuing Nature Network
Other programmes in the LWEC portfolio to which NERC is contributing but is not the lead partner are listed below. These may also have funding opportunities.
- Challenge-led Competition in Water Security

- Geoengineering: Integrated assessment & feasibility study

Information about all the programmes listed above can also be found on the LWEC website.