From: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
To: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>,Clare Goodess <C.Goodess@uea.ac.uk>, Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>,"Douglas Maraun" <d.maraun@uea.ac.uk>, "Janice Darch" <J.Darch@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: potential DfID funding for climate centre
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:33:01 +0100

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have not been approached - but I think it really 
does sound like the sort of initiative CRU/ENV are looking for.
I get the feeling this is the sort of potential 
contact ENV would wish to take over.
Keith




At 11:31 13/10/2008, Tim Osborn wrote:
>Hi CRU Board,
>
>I just had an interesting chat with Jack Newnham 
>from the International Development Team at Price 
>Waterhouse Cooper.  They get lots of DfID 
>(Douglas: DfID is the UK Government Department 
>for International Development) funding.
>
>They've heard that DfID are likely to call for 
>expressions of interest for a new centre 
>focussing on international climate 
>change.  Their idea is to fund a centre that 
>would be the first point of call for advice and 
>for commissioning research related to climate 
>change and development or to climate change in countries where DfID operate.
>
>He was talking about £15 million per year for 5 
>years!  Not sure how much would be from DfID and 
>how much raised from other donors (and hence 
>uncertain), nor how much would be given up-front 
>versus how much spent later on specific research 
>projects organised via this centre.
>
>Nevertheless, sounds big enough to be worth getting involved in.
>
>He was clearly just testing the water with us, 
>so not sure that they definitely wish to involve 
>us.  He may want to meet to talk through things, 
>if they decide to ask us to join their 
>proposal.  He said he'd email me later -- I'll 
>forward this when it arrives.  They're also 
>contacting the Tyndall Centre, and no doubt a number of other institutes.
>
>Has anyone else in CRU been approached?
>
>Presumably, if this call for tenders is actually 
>issued, this is likely to interest Tyndall 
>greatly.  But CRU can offer a significant 
>contribution -- especially data and scenarios 
>developed for specific (developing) countries -- 
>and this should be seen as independent from 
>Tyndall rather than part of Tyndall 
>contribution.  There's also Declan/DEV, so UEA as a whole has much to offer.
>
>Any thoughts on this?
>
>Tim
>
>
>
>
>Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow
>Climatic Research Unit
>School of Environmental Sciences
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK
>
>e-mail:   t.osborn@uea.ac.uk
>phone:    +44 1603 592089
>fax:      +44 1603 507784
>web:      http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/
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>

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