Climate Change Challenge Fund

Who can apply

1. The following entities are eligible to receive funding under the CCCF: Private sector, for-profit organizations; not-for-profit organizations; public sector bodies or boards that are established by or under provincial statute or regulation or are wholly owned by a province or local or regional government; municipal governments established by or under provincial statute and municipal organizations; Indigenous governments and organizations
2. Private sector, for-profit organizations including: primary agriculture, forestry and fishing; electricity generation; mining and quarrying; oil and gas; manufacturing; transportation; and commercial sector, including wholesale/retail trade, warehousing, business and professional services, information services, arts, environmental services, waste management, recreation, accommodations food and related services
3. To undertake greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in Newfoundland and Labrador
4. 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 and Carbon sequestration in agriculture and forestry sectors
5. Projects must be completed no later than December 31, 2028 to be eligible
6. Projects must be located in Newfoundland and Labrador
7. The project must result in incremental GHG reductions and these reductions must occur in Newfoundland and Labrador
8. The project must deliver material GHG reductions cost-effectively ($3,000/tonne or less)
9. Fuel switching to electricity generated by Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro in isolated off-grid communities is not eligible unless a project results in decreased GHG emissions from both electricity generation as well as on-site GHG emissions
10. The project must be fully identified and described in the application
11. The CCCF will not fund a project where activities or locations have not been confirmed in a CCCF application
12. Project expenditures must be incurred by March 31, 2028 or the end date of the CCCF Contribution Agreement (see Section 5.5) executed between the recipient and the Department, whichever is sooner
13. Eligible expenditures must be incurred after the execution of the CCCF Contribution Agreement between the Department and the funding recipient
14. Expenditures incurred prior to the execution of the Contribution Agreement will not be reimbursed, regardless of whether they are otherwise eligible
15. Recipients of CCCF funding may be audited by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador or its representatives, and must consent to allowing access to a facility or location where a project has been implemented as a condition of funding