Climate, Earth & Environment

Studying the climate, oceans, and natural world to understand and respond to environmental change

#9 of 29 research categories by total funding · About £52 per person in the UK

Funded awards

10,638

Published funding

£3.5B

Average published award

£466K

Active funded awards

2,232

NIHR-supported projects

Amounts are published for 7,521 of 10,638 funded awards. Data as of 16 July 2026.

NERC funds the most Climate, Earth & Environment research — 6,657 grants (63% of the topic). The busiest year was 2024, with 916 grants.

Top Funders by Funded Award Count

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Funder	Funded awards
NERC	6,657
EC	826
UKRI	724
EPSRC	691
STFC	490
ESRC	367
InnovateUK	334
AHRC	216
Wellcome	204
BBSRC	78

Funded Awards by Year

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Year	Funded awards
2006	317
2007	354
2008	382
2009	349
2010	511
2011	395
2012	437
2013	384
2014	296
2015	376
2016	482
2017	535
2018	561
2019	733
2020	639
2021	645
2022	910
2023	890
2024	916
2025	384

Grants


Mechanistically understanding biomineralisation and ancient ocean chemistry changes to facilitate robust climate model validation	University of Southampton	UKRI	£1.7M	2023	Active
Pinpointing Earth-System Thresholds for Anoxia with new Reconstructions of the Cretaceous Hothouse	University of Bristol	UKRI	£1.7M	2023	Active
SPICE: Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering	University of Bristol	EPSRC	£1.6M	2010	Completed
Global Surface Air Temperature (GloSAT)	National Oceanography Centre	NERC	£1.3M	2019	Completed
Global Surface Air Temperature (GloSAT)	NOC (Up to 31.10.2019)	NERC	£1.3M	2019	Completed
Silicon CycLing IN Glaciated environments	British Antarctic Survey	NERC	£932K	2024	Active
CO2 and climate change: deciphering the role of the high-latitude oceans	University of St Andrews	UKRI	£930K	2022	Active
Fennec - The Saharan Climate System	University of Leeds	NERC	£909K	2010	Completed
Accelerated carbon dioxide release from sedimentary rocks in a warming world	—	NERC	£811K	2024	Active
Sources, Sinks and Snow (S3): winter carbon emissions from future Arctic landscapes	Northumbria University	NERC	£809K	2025	Active
UKRI-Norway: Figuring Out how to Reconstruct Common Era forcing of climate by VOLcanoes with novel data and modelling approaches (FORCE-VOL)	University of St Andrews	NERC	£797K	2023	Active
Carbon cycling in a warming world: a deglacial test case	University of Bristol	NERC	£754K	2019	Completed
Fennec - The Saharan Climate System	—	NERC	£749K	2010	Completed
Global Surface Air Temperature (GloSAT)	University of Reading	NERC	£681K	2020	Completed
HYdroclimate Reconstruction in Arid eXtremes (HYRAX): understanding the mechanisms of global desertification	Northumbria University	NERC	£676K	2023	Active
QUEST Deglaciation: Climate and	University of Bristol	NERC	£667K	2006	Completed
The Svalbard exemplar of Neoproterozoic glaciation	University of Birmingham	NERC	£645K	2010	Completed
The Virgin Islands: Petrogenesis of early Earth-like Rocks (VIPER)	University of Edinburgh	NERC	£641K	2023	Active
Reconstructing latitudinal terrestrial temperature gradients at the cretaceous-palaeogene boundary: Testing the "equable earth" hypothesis	University of Manchester	NERC	£582K	2019	Completed
Revisiting the role of ocean ventilation in glacial CO2 sequestration using radiocarbon (ROGUE14)	University of Cambridge	NERC	£575K	2021	Completed

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