The US-Israel BSF aims to make a positive contribution to the development of climate solutions through cross-disciplinary, collaborative research projects between the two countries. This initiative envisages a bi-annual call for cross-disciplinary proposals that advance climate solutions' conceptualization, development and/or implementation.

The new initiative focuses on how aspects of climate related processes can be offset by novel technologies, regulations, policy etc. Examples of such processes are:

1. Atmosphere (e.g. carbon dioxide capture, methane emissions, hurricane preparedness, climate change, extreme weather etc.)
2. Earth (salt intrusion; rivers, estuaries and marshlands; coastal erosion; droughts; arid ecosystems; alternative energy sources (wind, solar); deforestation etc.)
3. Ocean (alternative energy sources (tidal, wave); coral bleaching; biodiversity and biogeography; food web structures; ocean acidification etc.)

BSF invites 5-page preproposals of cross-disciplinary, US-Israel collaborative studies that develop transformative concepts and ideas toward climate solutions. These ideas/concepts address the impacts of climate change on the natural environment as well as on human populations, their distributions, and economic activities.

BSF anticipates making two grants towards 3-4 years projects each cycle with award amounts of maximum $150K per project per year (up to $600,000 per project).