Deadline: 22-Sep-2023
The Natural Resources Canada is inviting applications for the Climate Change Adaptation Program to support communities, decision-makers and natural resource-sector businesses in identifying, developing, and implementing adaptation actions.
Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Program (2022–2027) supports the goals of Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy and helps position Canada’s regions and sectors to undertake approaches and actions that will enable them to adapt to a changing climate.
This Call for Proposals is intended to identify cost-shared projects that will make important contributions to advancing adaptation progress in Canada and delivering impact.
More specifically, the Program aims to:
- support the enhancement of adaptation knowledge and skills among Canada’s professionals and workforce more broadly, and
- increase access to climate change adaptation tools and resources.
Topics
- NRCan is soliciting proposals for projects that address climate change adaptation on the following topics:
- Adaptation skills
- Economics
- Emerging issues
- Natural resource sectors
Funding Information
- Up to $15 million in funding may be awarded through this Call for Proposals.
Duration
- Projects should have a start date no earlier than January 1st, 2024.
- The duration of the projects should be based on the scope of the work. Projects must be completed no later than December 31, 2026.
Eligible Projects
- Funds will be awarded based on the merits and feasibility of proposals received. Subsequent calls for proposals may be issued.
- Eligible projects must facilitate the development, sharing, and application of knowledge, tools, and practices that will assist communities, decision-makers, and natural resource-sector businesses in taking adaptation-informed decisions and developing and implementing adaptation actions.
- Proposed project activities and deliverables should consider the needs of intended audiences and end-users and be designed in a way that helps to facilitate adaptation decision-making and action (e.g., case studies, concise reports, guidance documents).
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible recipients include individuals and legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada, including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, such as:
- Academic institutions
- Non- governmental organizations
- Industry, research, and professional associations
- Companies and businesses
- Indigenous communities or governments
- Community, regional and national Indigenous organizations
- Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies
- Applicants must demonstrate that their organization has the expertise and financial capacity necessary to deliver the project.
- Projects requesting less than $150,000 of NRCan funding will not be considered through this Call for Proposals.
For more information, visit Natural Resources Canada.