Deadline: 9-Jun-23
The Nordic working group for Climate and Air (NKL) invites applications for grants to Nordic projects that support the implementation of the Programme for Nordic Co-operation on the Environment and Climate 2019–2024, the Nordic Vision and the priorities of the Nordic working group for Climate and Air.
The Nordic working group for Climate and Air is working to limit and prevent serious climate change and negative effects of transboundary air pollution, including harm to human health. NKL further wishes to focus on projects that describe the interactions between climate and air pollution issues and the synergies with other areas. The group can fund various types of activities such as studies, workshops and other outreach. In addition to this open call for applications for Nordic grants, NKL also operates through targeted public procurements.
NKL focus areas 2024:
- Synergies between climate and clean air policies
- Projects that contribute to new knowledge about climate change, and the effects of air pollution on human health and welfare.
- Projects that explore synergies between climate, clean air and biodiversity policies.
- Projects that analyse the consequences of climate policies on air pollution and vice versa (emissions, concentrations, exposures) and identify sectors where further policy action is needed to improve air quality and exposure to air pollutants (integrated assessment modelling etc.).
- Projects that contribute to the understanding of the methane/ozone problem and support the development of international and national strategies for methane emission reductions in agriculture and other key sectors.
- Air pollution policy support and implementation
- Projects that contribute to the basis for decisions and implementation under international air pollution agreements.
- Projects focusing on reduction of harmful emissions caused by for example traffic (fuel combustion and road dust etc.), non-road mobile machinery, shipping, agriculture, and small-scale wood combustion.
- Projects focusing on the effects of air pollutants on human health and the environment, including costs.
- Projects that promote international knowledge transfer of Nordic air pollution mitigation solutions and scale up reduction measures.
- Recommendations on further development of emission inventories (sectors, pollutants) and monitoring activities.
- Projects focusing on measures to reduce nitrogen emissions to support the Nordic countries in contributing to international goals.
- Climate change policy support, initiatives that contribute to climate neutrality work and climate adaptation
- Initiatives for raised ambitions of collective climate commitments over time in line with the ambition mechanism of the Paris Agreement and that could contribute to the Mitigation work programme.
- Activities that contribute to Nordic collaboration, enhance their knowledge base and raise awareness about both mitigation and adaptation to transboundary climate risks.
- Initiatives that illustrate and contribute to a just and green transition in the Nordic countries.
- Initiatives that pursue a shift in financial flows so that they contribute to a circular, climate-resilient low-emission development in line with the Paris Agreement.
- Activities that support and encourage local governments, cities, municipalities and sectors to step up their efforts towards carbon neutrality, among others also activities taking into account a just transition and emissions from consumption.
- Projects that enhance the understanding of emissions and removals of GHG from the land sector, including soil carbon, in the Nordic countries.
Funding Information
- 500.000 – 950.000 DKK (preferred range of grants)
Countries
- Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands The Sami Language Area
Eligibility Criteria
- The applications will be assessed on the basis of:
- Projects in line with the priorities for the Nordic working group for Climate and Air: Programme for Nordic Co-operation on the Environment and Climate 2019-2024, Nordic vision 2030, Nordic Strategy for Sustainable Development 2013-2025 and/or Ministerial Declaration on Nordic Carbon Neutrality. See links under.
- Relevance and Nordic synergy: project outcomes that are relevant to the administrations and policies of the Nordic countries, both within the Nordics and Nordic strongholds within international fora.
- Projects that support and strengthen the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the 2030 Agenda.
- The quality of the project description.
- Composition and experience of the project group.
- Innovative thinking within the scope of the themes for 2024. Contributes to increased knowledge about the theme in a Nordic context, and/or has transferable value.
- Communication plan for the results generated.
- The benefit of carrying out the activity at the Nordic level should be demonstrable and the projects must prove relevance for and contain active participation from minimum three Nordic countries.
For more information, visit NKL.