Climate Change Challenge Funds (Canada)

Deadline: 11-Apr-25

The Newfoundland and Labrador’s Climate Change Challenge Fund is open to the private sector, not-for profit organizations, public sector bodies or boards, municipal governments, and Indigenous organizations to undertake greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in Newfoundland and Labrador.

This $12-million investment in the province’s Climate Change Challenge Fund aims to improve energy efficiency, create economic growth, and effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Objectives

• The objectives of the CCCF are to:
  • Cost-effectively reduce GHG emissions that contribute to climate change.
  • Improve energy efficiency and reduce energy costs through reduced GHG emission sources.
  • Promote growth and job creation.

Priority Areas 

• The target areas for investment under the CCCF are:
  • energy efficiency and fuel switching in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors;
  • process changes in the industrial sector;
  • reducing GHG emissions in the forestry, agricultural and waste sectors, including carbon sinks and methane destruction; and
  • transportation retrofits – off-road vehicles (e.g., forklifts, marine vessels).

Project Eligibility

• All Projects:
  • Projects must be located in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • The project must result in incremental GHG reductions and these reductions must occur in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • The project must deliver material GHG reductions cost-effectively ($3,000/tonne or less).
• Energy Projects:
  • Energy efficiency retrofits that result in the reduction of on-site fossil fuel use.
  • On-site (i.e., within the project boundary) fuel switching to lower-carbon energy sources (e.g., electricity; biomass) in existing buildings and facilities.
  • New renewable on-site energy production and retrofits to existing on-site energy production for own-use that results in the reduction of fossil fuel use, including ownuse biogas.
  • On-site combined heat and power for own- use that results in reduced fossil fuel usage.
  • Process changes in the commercial and industrial sectors that result in reduced fossil fuel usage.
  • Retrofits to existing mobile equipment, marine vessels and locomotives that results in the reduction of fossil fuel use.
• Non energy Projects and Industrial Processes:
  • Carbon sequestration (i.e. enhancing carbon sinks in the agriculture and forestry sectors).
  • Methane capture and destruction in the agriculture and waste sectors.
  • Reduced Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) and Perfluorocarbon (PFC) use.

Eligibility Criteria

• The following entities are eligible to receive funding under the CCCF:
  • Private sector, for-profit organizations including:
    • primary agriculture, forestry and fishing;
    • electricity generation;
    • mining and quarrying;
    • oil and gas;
    • manufacturing;
    • transportation; and
    • commercial sector, including wholesale/retail trade, warehousing, business and professional services, information services, arts, environmental services, waste management, recreation, accommodations food and related services;
  • not-for-profit organizations;
  • public sector bodies or boards that are established by or under provincial statute or regulation or are wholly owned by a province or local or regional government;
  • municipal governments established by or under provincial statute and municipal organizations; and
  • Indigenous governments and organizations.

For more information, visit Newfoundland and Labrador.