What is the award focus?
Protecting natural ecosystems is one way to address climate change and a key pillar in AXA XL’s sustainability strategy.
In partnership with AXA Research Fund, this call for nominations is looking to recognize innovative, transdisciplinary research that adopts either a global or regional perspective and highlights the value of nature and its ecosystem services in supporting businesses and communities to strengthen resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change, particularly in one of the following areas:
- Measuring and quantifying the financial value of preserving or restoring ecosystem services to businesses/society.
- Identifying climate change adaptation and mitigation opportunities resulting from preserving or restoring nature.
- Empowering local communities through the preservation or restoration of natural environments, including the incorporation of indigenous knowledge.
- Evaluating the benefits of restoring degraded ecosystems, including assessing the impact of invasive species on the resilience of ecosystems to climate change impacts.
- Developing scenarios for future ecosystem changes under various climate change and natural ecosystem scenarios (e.g. the introduction of invasive species) and assessing the potential impacts on businesses and communities.
Any related topic that aligns with the themes of the call for nominations can be submitted for consideration for the award, even if it is not explicitly outlined in the above list. Candidates should demonstrate the novelty, innovation, and impact of their research in these areas.
Meet a previous ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵand AXA Research Fund award winner
Dr. Petra Holden, a transdisciplinary conservation scientist at the African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town, was granted AXA XL’s 2023 Climate Water Nexus award to support her research around nature-based solutions for an equitable, biodiverse, and sustainable climate future. Her research has included attributing the impacts of climate change on water security and quantifying how well nature-based solutions can offset anthropogenic climate change on water-related ecosystem services.
For more information on Petra’s research see , , and read more about the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵClimate Water Nexus Award here.
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