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Green Municipal Fund – Implementation projects: Adaptation in Action │ Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM):

August 14, 2024

Value

Grant for 60% of eligible costs; Up to a maximum of $1 million

Description

We fund projects that enhance long-term climate resilience in communities in an equitable and inclusive manner. This funding is intended for communities who are already aware of their climate risks and know which projects will help them make the greatest strides in improving their climate resilience.

This funding empowers local governments to implement equity-informed climate adaptation projects, with an emphasis on projects that provide low-carbon and nature-positive community benefits.

Eligible Applicants

The following organizations are eligible for GMF funding.

  • Canadian municipal governments (e.g., towns, cities, regions, districts, and local boards)
  • Municipal partners, which include:
    • municipally owned corporations
    • regional, provincial or territorial organizations delivering municipal services
    • non-governmental organizations
    • not-for-profit organizations
    • research institutes (e.g., universities)
    • Indigenous community

Eligible Expenses

Eligible climate adaptation implementation projects could include:

  • Installing, retrofitting or upgrading public cooling/warming infrastructure (including natural infrastructure) to reduce community vulnerability to extreme temperatures (e.g., designated cooling/warming centres, cooling corridors, naturalized areas)
  • Incremental operations to use existing assets to reduce hazard exposure during severe events (e.g., running heating/cooling centres) over a period of up to 18 months)
  • Incremental costs associated with improving the design of a capital project to incorporate climate-resilient elements
  • Enhancing municipal service levels to respond to climate risks
  • Installing back-up power on critical infrastructure/facilities
  • Relocating municipal infrastructure
  • Installing, retrofitting or upgrading public structures or critical infrastructure for municipal service provision to reduce the risks associated with climate hazards
  • FireSmart-aligned vegetative management or vegetation-based wildfire risk mitigation activities
  • Installing, retrofitting or upgrading structural flood protection or stormwater collection works (e.g., sponge parks, flood conveyance works, pump stations, flood walls, flood boxes, debris catchment structures, jetties, detention ponds)
  • Dam, dike or channel decommissioning and floodplain restoration
  • Wetland restoration or construction
  • Rehabilitating important aquifer recharge areas
  • Installing, retrofitting or upgrading green infrastructure (e.g., rain gardens, bioswales, green roofs and/or permeable pavement)
  • Shoreline rehabilitation, including restoring natural shoreline protection through natural infrastructure, beach nourishment and/or bank stabilization
  • Slope stabilization projects that reduce the risk of debris flow, particularly in fire-impacted areas

Deadline Date

The deadline to submit a full application for this funding is August 14, 2024.

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