Grants & Funding

Helping your business with the latest environmental grants and funding news including from carbon offsetting and technology grants to regional and government funding.

Solar healthcare scheme wins $1m UN sustainable development award

We Care Solar, which provides renewable energy at low cost with a medical device that prevents maternal and child complications during labour in areas without electricity, was announced yesterday as the winner of a $1 million grant by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

Glencore chairman and former BP boss calls for end to fossil fuel subsidies

The chairman of the world’s biggest commodity trader has called for an end to subsidies for fossil fuels.

EC launches €200m innovation fund to tackle “valley of death”

A €200 million pilot funding stream has been launched by the European Commission for projects that are in the late stages of development and close to being launched on the market.

Biomass boilers up to 20 per cent less efficient than expected, DECC study finds

Billions of pounds of public money is to be spent supporting ‘green’ boilers, despite evidence from the Government’s own experts and industry that they will do little to help the UK meet its clean energy targets.

Government to release £100m more to Green Deal in tranches

Homeowners will be able to claim up to £5,600 from the Government towards home improvements such as a new boiler and cavity wall insulation from Wednesday 10 December – but the money may not be around for long.

UK to donate £720m to UN’s Green Climate Fund

Britain will face a disaster if it adopts an “isolationist approach” to the environment, the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, has warned as he announced the UK is to give £720 million to an international fund to help poor countries cope with climate change.

New York Climate Summit: it’s time foundations used their endowment might to trigger meaningful action

A week before the New York Climate Summit, 160 leading environmentalists from 44 countries are calling on the world’s foundations and philanthropists to use endowments worth billions of dollars to turn the tide on global warming. Jeremy Leggett, chairman of Carbon Tracker and coordinator of the declaration, sets out five options for foundations to accelerate climate work.

Yorkshire carbon capture and storage project wins EU funding

Drax, the operator of Britain’s biggest power station, has secured up to €300 million (£238 million) of European Union funding to build a power plant whose carbon dioxide emissions will be trapped and buried deep beneath the North Sea.

Green Investment Bank to create £1bn offshore wind fund

The Green Investment Bank announced plans to raise a further £1 billion today, as it unveiled its first full set of annual accounts that showed the state-backed bank was not yet profitable.

Higher education energy efficiency fund to get £34m investment boost

An energy efficiency fund to help higher education institutions reduce their carbon emissions and energy bills is to receive a £34 million investment boost, creating opportunities for jobs and growth in the green goods and services sector.

EU launches “largest cleantech idea competition”

UK-based entrepreneurs are being given the chance to create a cleaner, greener future and access up to €95,000 (£77,331) in funding in what is being described as “Europe’s largest cleantech idea competition”.

George Osborne set to announce £140m for flood defences in Budget

George Osborne is set to announce £140 million of new funding for repairing and improving flood defences in his Budget statement on Wednesday, following the savage series of storms that buffeted England and Wales during the wettest winter for at least 250 years.

We Care Solar provides medical device at low cost using renewable energy

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