Deadline: 30-Nov-23
Do you have a green idea to make your community a better place? New Brunswick’s Environmental Trust Fund could help make your idea a reality.
The Environmental Trust Fund supports projects focused on protecting, preserving, and enhancing the province’s natural environment.
Priority Areas and Measures
- Addressing Climate Change
- Climate Change education and awareness in support of the province’s Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP).
- Support NGOs, local communities, and Indigenous communities to increase local capacity to participate in climate change actions and deliver on provincial climate change priorities related to implementing the CCAP.
- Directly support climate change actions that align with the province’s CCAP.
- Bridging Climate Change information gaps to support implementing the province’s CCAP.
- Increasing Environmental Awareness
- Support for projects with a potential wide reach (participant number and various audience groups) and coverage (provincial scope).
- Support for youth and k-12 programming as well as public and community education.
- Managing the Waste
- Waste Diversion (i.e., Reuse, Recycling, Organics diversion, Reduction of Food Waste, Environmentally-sound alternatives to plastics, Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection and disposal, and Reuse initiatives).
- Waste Education and Awareness (i.e., Education on Reuse, Recycling, Organics, and Education on environmentally-sound alternatives to plastics).
- Protecting the Environment
- Watershed management (i.e., Water sampling, field measurements, benthic/other environmental sampling, Education, Creation or implementation of watershed management plan, Alignment with other management or action plans).
- Habitat restoration and replanting of wetland, coastal, and riverside habitat; aquatic connectivity (i.e. assessing culverts, fish passageways, etc.).
- Bridging information gaps and mapping (on climate change & prediction and environmental effects, environment threats, and environmental health monitoring.
- Gather wetland/coastal/riverside erosion data).
- Education on wetland functions and the importance of wetlands for a healthy environment.
- Promote the protection and delineation of wetlands.
- Actions towards protection of habitats in environmentally significant areas of the province (based on the GNB database).
- Building Sustainable Communities
- Development of local government climate change adaptation and GHG mitigation plans, including assessment and studies that are precursors to the development of the plan.
- Implementation of priority elements that are not capital expenditures from local government adaptation plans and GHG mitigation plans.
Eligibility Criteria
- The fund supports projects led by:
- community groups
- municipalities
- First Nations
- non-profit organizations
- institutions furthering sustainable development
Ineligible
- Some activities are generally not supported by the fund, such as:
- Bank and shoreline stabilization measures other than natural and manual plantings
- Development, management, and maintenance of parks and trails
- Feasibility studies
- Septic upgrades
- Non “green” activities (i.e. sidewalk construction, paving, etc.)
- Activities that are required by legislation (i.e. Environmental Impact Assessments etc.)
- Acquisition of land
- Activities where other more appropriate funding programs should be accessed.
- Infrastructure and capital assets
- Instances when the recipient would gain an advantage over entrepreneurs in the same sector or a related sector of the economy
For more information, visit Government of New Brunswick.