Climate action fund call for projects

Marie-claude Bibeau, Member of Parliament for ComptonStanstead and Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food, is inviting local organizations to submit a project to the new Climate Action and Awareness Fund.

The fund from Environment and Climate Change Canada will support projects that help to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

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);

• support climate research at Canadian think tanks and in academia (request for proposals - winter 2021);

• advance climate science and technology (request for proposals - winter 2021).

The types of support, outreach and resources provided through community-based climate action projects may include workshops, networking, training, virtual platforms, climate awareness activities – including those related to Indigenous knowledge – and more. These activities should enable communities to take action on climate change.

Eligible recipients include not-forprofit non-governmental organizations, university or academic institutions and Indigenous organizations.

For more information on the eligibility criteria and how to submit an application, please see the following link:https://www.canada.ca/en/services/ environment/weather/climatechange/ funding- programs/ climate- actionawareness-fund.html.

The application form and all required documentation must be sent by Oct. 21, 2020.