ARIA Exploring Climate Cooling

ARIA Exploring Climate Cooling sits under the Advanced Research and Invention Agency's Future-Proofing Our Climate and Weather space and backs climate intervention research. The programme is associated with a £57 million envelope and is led by Mark Symes, which makes it one of ARIA's more explicitly mission-shaped climate calls. Funding is delivered as grants of roughly £250,000 to £5 million, with a median award of £1.5 million. The programme is annual, limited to TRL 2 to TRL 5, and open to for-profit R&D performers from the UK and abroad that can work in the UK context. Non-profits and individuals are not eligible, no match funding is required, and the same solicitation is a prior-funding disqualifier. The right applicant is a team that can handle a politically sensitive topic with serious technical discipline. ARIA will expect a proposal that is precise about the intervention being tested, honest about uncertainty, and designed to generate a credible evidence base rather than a broad policy argument.

No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Annual.