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The future is collaborative

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The way in which climate change research funds are managed is shifting dramatically toward investments in large collaborative research networks. This poses significant challenges for researchers, and requires changes from the institutions and funders that support them.

Our analysis of publicly available data (for example, https://iatistandard.org and https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk) suggests that, in the past ten years alone, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have invested at least 300 million dollars in a specific type of climate change research: large research collaborations that span countries, continents and disciplines. When we factor in knowledge brokering projects, this figure reaches half a billion dollars over the same time period.

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  2. International Development Research Centre, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya

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Cundill, G., Currie-Alder, B. & Leone, M. The future is collaborative. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 343–345 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0447-3

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