The primary effort for the Climate Project is to support and drive the frontiers, areas of opportunity targeted for exploration.
The project also seeds research and other faculty efforts that relate to impact in energy and climate. Current support includes:
- Our Spring 2025 open call to seed research in two cross-cutting domains:
- Heat Stress and Cooling (PDF), which seeks to develop human-centered solutions to provide access to cooling across residential, industrial, and agricultural activities.
- Sensing, Sharing, and Understanding (PDF), which seeks to develop a public and freely accessible, open-source climate-action data and model warehouse for key planetary and societal assets.
- Deshpande Center Momentum Grants, which support research and translation to accelerate promising technologies toward real-world impact.
- Ongoing support for the Climate Grand Challenges, multiyear projects initiated in 2021 to define a dynamic research agenda focused on unraveling some of the toughest unsolved climate problems and bringing high-impact, science-based solutions to the world on an accelerated basis.