Deadline: 14-Aug-22
The Brimbank City Council is currently seeking applications for its Climate Emergency Grants to support the community to implement projects that support greenhouse emissions reduction and climate adaptation within Brimbank.
Climate adaptation means making changes to the behaviour, systems, and—in some cases—ways of life to protect the families, the economies, and the environment in which they live from the impacts of climate change.
For example, educational initiatives that raise awareness about the climate emergency among a range of community groups, and projects that support the community to produce products and food locally
Objectives
- Empower community groups and leaders to take action under Brimbank City Council’s Climate Emergency Plan’s five themes.
- Develop community groups and council partnerships in emissions reduction.
- Raise awareness of the climate emergency and promote climate-friendly behaviour change practices to a range of community groups within the municipality, particularly diverse or hard-to-reach community groups.
- Support a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2040.
- Enable community members to trial innovative solutions to address the climate emergency.
- Support the community groups to increase the biodiversity and habitat for local native wildlife on private land.
- Promote cultural practices and traditional knowledge in order to care for Country.
Themes
- People Power: Influencing positive environmental change together and leaving no one behind. They can achieve this through community-led mobilisation, involvement and education and through the lens of traditional knowledge and culture.
- 100% Renewable: Using clean renewable energy for all the needs and achieving 100% renewable energy for 100% of the people in Brimbank. One of the best ways to do this is to switch from gas appliances to efficient electricity and install rooftop solar. Creating a Sustainability Plan or 100% Renewable energy goal for your organisation is a great place to start.
- Green and Cool: Embracing nature as an ally for a comfortable urban environment, reducing the impact of heat waves in the local community, increasing biodiversity and habitat and knowing that what they eat has a huge impact on the planet. Planting shade trees and native plants, building rain gardens and going vegetarian is a great way to do this!
- Resilient Rebuild: Building smarter, more thermally comfortable buildings and travelling by low emissions transport. Active transport such as walking and cycling and using electric bikes and vehicles to get around Brimbank is the way of the future!
- Circular Economy: Recognising that the goods and services they use have a big environmental impact so they need to choose wisely, design out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use and regenerate natural systems through food and green waste composting. Reduce, reuse, recycle and compost!
Funding Information
- Climate Emergency Grants can provide funding up to $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a not-for-profit incorporated organisation.
- Have Public Liability Insurance cover for the duration of the project, unless applying for an Establishment Grant.
- Have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Be based in Brimbank, or demonstrate that the proposed project will substantially benefit Brimbank residents.
- Have satisfactorily acquitted previous grants funded under the Brimbank Council’s Community Grants Program, where applicable.
For more information, visit Brimbank City Council.
For more information, visit https://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/grants/climate-emergency-grants