Deadline: 15-Aug-22
The Columbia Basin Trust is inviting applications for the Climate Resilience Program to help communities in the Basin become more climate resilient by supporting large-scale, multi-year, shovel-ready climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience projects that address sources of climate change or manage the risks of climate change impacts.
Based on input from Basin residents, one of the Trust’s integrated priorities is to support the Basin in becoming more climate resilient.
Funding InformationÂ
- Applicants can request up to a maximum of 75 per cent of total project costs from the Trust.
- The maximum amount of Trust funding for any one project is $500,000 with a maximum duration of five years for multi-year projects.
Eligible Projects
The program focuses on projects that:
- anticipate, prepare for, and respond to events, trends or opportunities related to climate change; this means both mitigation and adaptation projects are eligible for the program
- implement on-the-ground actions (rather than strictly research, education or planning) to foster a climate resilient Basin;
- are grounded in both an evidence-based and community-engagement based approach;
- reflect input received and perspectives from Indigenous Peoples of the Basin, community/non-profit groups and technical experts;
- are ready or almost ready to implement (e.g., project work plans are complete or close to complete);
- are seeking or have other sources of funding secured; and
- have concrete, measurable outcomes towards climate resiliency (e.g. tCO2e reduced, MWh of green power generated, measured risk reductions to climate events such as
- flooding, community assets with measured resistance to hazards, measured protection against extreme heat and drought).
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include local governments, First Nations, and registered non-profits in the Columbia Basin Trust region.
- Businesses may be considered where the community is the primary beneficiary of the project impacts. Business applicants must demonstrate partnerships with community-based organizations in the design and delivery of their proposed project.
- The project should demonstrate that it will benefit the public and that the primary beneficiary is not the applicant or solely the members of a membership-based organization.
- Applicants operating outside the Basin must partner with community-based organizations in the Basin to be eligible and show that the Project benefits the Basin.
For more information, visit https://ourtrust.org/grants-and-programs-directory/climate-resilience-program/