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.
- Private sector, for-profit organizations including:
For more information, visit Newfoundland and Labrador.