Call for proposals on climate change preparedness Deadline: February 10, 2017 Win a chance to present your work before some of the world's leading experts in climate change adaptation! Launched in collaboration with The UN Secretary - General’s Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R), the MIT Climate CoLab is hosting an online contest on "Anticipating Climate Hazards," accepting proposals until February 10, 2017, 6 p.m. Eastern Time. The Anticipating Climate Hazards contest invites proposals on how the world should prepare and respond to climate extremes and climate hazards. It calls for a wide range of innovative and practical solutions – on the local, national and international levels – that can help strengthen early warning and early action in vulnerable communities around the world. Selected by a panel of world- renowned experts in the field of climate change adaptation, the contest's Judges' Choice Winner will receive an expenses-paid trip to present their work before the A2R Leadership Group -- many of the world's leading experts in the field, in addition to wide recognition from the MIT Climate CoLab and A2R Initiative. Learn more, and to submit by February 10, see: http:// climatecolab. org/contests/ 2017/A2R- Anticipating- Climate- Hazards