Deadline: 22-Jan-25
The Cork County Council has launched the Community Climate Action Programme.
Themes
- Projects should address the following five themes:
- Community Energy
- Travel
- Food and waste
- Shopping and recycling
- Local climate and environmental action
Eligible Projects
- The types of projects/initiatives, within communities, which are eligible for funding under the Community Climate Action Programme (CCAP), should seek to demonstrate the delivery of national climate action at local level by:
- Reducing or supporting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Increasing the production, or use, of renewable energy.
- Improving energy efficiency.
- Increasing climate resilience.
- Identifying nature-based projects that enhance biodiversity and seek to reduce, or increase the removal of, greenhouse gas emissions or support climate resilience in the State.
- Assisting regions in the State (including communities in those regions) and within sectors of the economy impacted by the transition to a low carbon economy.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community organisations meeting the requirements listed below are eligible to apply for funding under Strand 1 and Strand 1a of the Community Climate Action Programme (CCAP) to deliver projects which address climate change at a local level and support the delivery of low carbon and climate resilient communities.
- Community organisations:
- must be a not-for-profit organisation.
- must be located in the operational area of the local authority (Cork County Council) to which it is applying for funding.
- must submit a completed application form on or before the specified closing date and time.
- must be registered with a PPN or connected with other collectives such as the Wheel, Tidy Towns and /or a community group with Articles of Association or a Constitution, which hold an AGM, and for which approved minutes are available.
- Furthermore:
- The project applied for must be in line with the aim/purpose of the Community Climate Action Programme (CCAP), and the criteria eligible for funding.
- Only one application per organisation may be submitted for consideration – projects proposed could cut across several of the themes and be bundled together as part of a single application.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following are not eligible to apply:
- Private individuals.
- Commercial undertakings (including sole traders).
- National community and environmental organisations.
- Schools, third level institutions etc.
- Financial institutions.
For more information, visit Cork County Council.