For Immediate Release
October 24, 2025
As climate change heats up the planet, natural systems like warming wetlands and thawing permafrost are expected to emit more greenhouse gases. At the same time, ecosystems’ ability to absorb greenhouse gases is weakening. These warming-induced emissions are happening faster than scientists predicted and are among the least understood climate risks.
While the exact future scale of these emissions is uncertain and will depend in part on our overall future climate trajectory, they have the potential to be substantial and to significantly accelerate global warming. Yet because these emissions are not well quantified, they are largely excluded from climate models, carbon budgets, and global climate policies—including Paris Agreement frameworks—resulting in significant gaps in global mitigation, adaptation, and greenhouse gas removal strategies.
To better understand this critical blind spot, Spark Climate Solutions (Spark) has launched the Warming-Induced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (WIE-MIP). Today, October 24, 2025, Spark is also announcing an associated funding opportunity: Warming-Induced Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (WIE-MIP) Grants for the climate modeling community to contribute to this effort.
The Warming-Induced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (WIE-MIP) will involve coordination with dozens of scientists from key institutions around the globe to ensure these emissions are more accurately modeled and, in turn, represented in key climate policy processes. Specifically, we will work to fast-track improved modeling to support the development of literature that will be reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).
The Model Intercomparison Project is one part of Spark’s broader Warming-Induced Emissions Program, launched earlier this year, which is working to help better manage risks from warming-induced emissions by filling critical science and policy gaps and researching opportunities to directly mitigate some of the emissions. The program is led by Dr. Ben Poulter, Spark Senior Scientist and former Deputy Director for Greenhouse Gas Measurements and Monitoring at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Spark is inviting the land-surface modeling community to engage with this effort and to also apply for grants to participate in this modeling project. A limited number of grants are available to up to 12 modeling teams in the range of $100,000 to $150,000 per grant. A peer-reviewed protocol describing the WIE-MIP will be published for discussion in December 2025.
The WIE-MIP initiative is made possible through the generous support of Alta Futures, a philanthropic partner dedicated to supporting innovative climate science and solutions.
Application Deadline: November 30, 2025 (Midnight, EST)
About Spark Climate Solutions
Spark Climate Solutions is a science-driven, philanthropically funded non-profit that accelerates progress on unsolved climate challenges. We focus on blind spots that pose big climate risks or offer big climate opportunities—like major sources of unabated emissions—and work to speed up the development of the fields needed to address them. We are currently focused on super pollutants from agriculture, warming-induced greenhouse gas emissions, and methane removal.
For Immediate Release
October 24, 2025
As climate change heats up the planet, natural systems like warming wetlands and thawing permafrost are expected to emit more greenhouse gases. At the same time, ecosystems’ ability to absorb greenhouse gases is weakening. These warming-induced emissions are happening faster than scientists predicted and are among the least understood climate risks.
While the exact future scale of these emissions is uncertain and will depend in part on our overall future climate trajectory, they have the potential to be substantial and to significantly accelerate global warming. Yet because these emissions are not well quantified, they are largely excluded from climate models, carbon budgets, and global climate policies—including Paris Agreement frameworks—resulting in significant gaps in global mitigation, adaptation, and greenhouse gas removal strategies.
To better understand this critical blind spot, Spark Climate Solutions (Spark) has launched the Warming-Induced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (WIE-MIP). Today, October 24, 2025, Spark is also announcing an associated funding opportunity: Warming-Induced Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (WIE-MIP) Grants for the climate modeling community to contribute to this effort.
The Warming-Induced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (WIE-MIP) will involve coordination with dozens of scientists from key institutions around the globe to ensure these emissions are more accurately modeled and, in turn, represented in key climate policy processes. Specifically, we will work to fast-track improved modeling to support the development of literature that will be reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).
The Model Intercomparison Project is one part of Spark’s broader Warming-Induced Emissions Program, launched earlier this year, which is working to help better manage risks from warming-induced emissions by filling critical science and policy gaps and researching opportunities to directly mitigate some of the emissions. The program is led by Dr. Ben Poulter, Spark Senior Scientist and former Deputy Director for Greenhouse Gas Measurements and Monitoring at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Spark is inviting the land-surface modeling community to engage with this effort and to also apply for grants to participate in this modeling project. A limited number of grants are available to up to 12 modeling teams in the range of $100,000 to $150,000 per grant. A peer-reviewed protocol describing the WIE-MIP will be published for discussion in December 2025.
The WIE-MIP initiative is made possible through the generous support of Alta Futures, a philanthropic partner dedicated to supporting innovative climate science and solutions.
Application Deadline: November 30, 2025 (Midnight, EST)
About Spark Climate Solutions
Spark Climate Solutions is a science-driven, philanthropically funded non-profit that accelerates progress on unsolved climate challenges. We focus on blind spots that pose big climate risks or offer big climate opportunities—like major sources of unabated emissions—and work to speed up the development of the fields needed to address them. We are currently focused on super pollutants from agriculture, warming-induced greenhouse gas emissions, and methane removal.
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