Minister Announces Funding for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Projects

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Lisa Dempster recently announced a $12-million investment in the province’s Climate Change Challenge Fund.

The Climate Change Challenge Fund is a competitive, application-based grant program open to the private sector, not-for profit organizations, public sector bodies or boards, municipal governments, and Indigenous organizations to undertake greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Projects must cost effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fall under one or more of the following target areas:

• Energy efficiency that results in reduced fossil fuel use.

• Fuel switching to reduce emissions.

• Process changes in the industrial sector.

• Adoption of new technologies that displace or eliminate on-site greenhouse gas emissions.

• Carbon sequestration in agriculture and forestry sectors.
  

The deadline for applications is Friday, April 11.