The new Climate Action and Awareness Fund will invest $206 million over five years to support Canadian-made projects that help to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Action and Awareness Fund is designed to support projects that can create middle class jobs for Canadians who work in science and technology, academia and at the grassroots community level. These projects are critical as we continue to build a sustainable net zero emissions economy by 2050.
The Climate Action and Awareness Fund has three main priorities:
- support youth climate awareness (request for proposals – closed summer 2020) and community-based climate action (request for proposals – fall 2020—this call)
- support climate research at Canadian think tanks and in academia (still to come: request for proposals – winter 2021)
- advance climate science and technology (still to come: request for proposals – winter 2021)
The Climate Action and Awareness Fund was created with contributions from the existing Climate Action Fund, as well as a significant investment from the Environmental Damages Fund.
Community-based climate action projects
Launched September 17, 2020, the request for proposals for community-based climate action projects will provide knowledge, tools and/or skills that lead to or engage communities in climate action. This request for proposals will provide from $100,000 to $6 million to eligible organizations, for a total of up to $50 million over five years.
Application period
September 17, 2020, to October 21, 2020, at 11:59 pm EDT
ECCC will be hosting webinar sessions to share information and answer participants’ questions.
Date: Monday October 5, 2020
Time: 1:00 to 1:45 p.m. EDT (in English) and 2:15 to 3:00 p.m. EDT (in French)
How to register: Click “Join a Meeting” using the Meeting Number you would like to attend. On the following page, click “Register”. No password is required to register (leave the field blank).
Meeting number: 164 144 3690 (for English), 164 989 8643 (for French)
Note: You will then receive an email containing the link to the meeting.