Climate Solutions
Accelerator Projects

Projects designed to foster impactful research and bring effective climate solutions to communities in Pennsylvania and around the world.

2024 Projects

Level 1 workshops are valuable investments that provide resources to research teams and burgeoning projects that may become tomorrow’s climate solutions. By engaging a diverse range of participants and fostering teamwork, collaboration, and creativity, the workshops strengthen proposals and generate high-quality outcomes.

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Biomaterials and Nature-Based Solutions: Achieving a Sustainable, Decarbonised and Climate-Resilient Built Environment

Nature-Based Solutions

Built Environment & Transportation

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Building Capacity for Subnational Climate Action

Policy & Governance

Public Engagement, Communication, & Behavioral Change

Limestone rock with a CO2 cloud illustration and down arrows

Carbon Management: Capture, Transport, and Geological Storage

Energy Transition

Finance & Business Innovation

Flooded road after heavy storm

Climate-Driven Pluvial Flooding: Impacts on Environmental Non-Migrants in Central Pennsylvania

Health & Well-Being

Justice & Ethics

Hikers in a lush forest with sunshine

Developing and Evaluating Climate Solutions Educational Strategies through Leave No Trace

Public Engagement, Communication, & Behavioral Change

Health & Well-Being

Nature-Based Strategies

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Developing Transformative Youth-Centered Research Agendas & Intergenerational Collaborations to Foster Climate Justice Solutions

Justice & Ethics

Policy & Governance

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Forest Carbon Assessment and Management across Scales: Using Improved Forest Management for Climate Resilience and Mitigation

Nature-Based Strategies

Policy & Governance

Finance & Business Innovation

Aerial view of Oroville Lake with low water levels

Implementing State-Level Climate Change Policy and Management for Water Resources in California

Policy & Governance

Cacao Tree (theobroma Cacao). Organic Cocoa Fruit Pods In Nature

Penn State – Belizean Foundation for Research and Environmental Education Consortium Workshop: Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Solutions to Climate Change and Ecosystem Conservation

Nature-Based Strategies

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Penn State Mineral Dust and GeoHealth Workshop

Energy Transition

Health & Well-Being

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Scaling One Health Approach through Multistakeholder Engagement in Arthropod Adaptations to Ecosystem Plasticity Associated with Climate Change

Health & Well-Being

Policy & Governance