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Deforested wild land (most of Scotland) is becoming a valuable asset for generating carbon offsets. Remote corporate investors [‘Green Lairds’] may buy and exploit large tracts of Scotland for private profit, shutting out local communities and permanently industrialising our most sensitive landscapes. What to do about it? It's not easy, but the SCDI's ‘Natural Capital’ report is an informed and realistic contribution for investors, communities and like-minded partners. https://lnkd.in/eNEfjrPS #carbonoffset #communityland #scotland

📢 Join the Justice Climate Fund (JCF) and support low-income communities in the clean energy transition and ensure your eligibility for millions of federal dollars in financial assistance! PCG Cordially Invites Your CDFI to Submit a Letter of Support for the Justice Climate Fund. We invite you to join our applications to the Environmental Protection Agency for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund’s National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) competitions. Created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is a first-of-its-kind, national-scale program will provide nearly $27 billion in competitive grants to mobilize financing and leverage private capital for clean energy and energy efficiency projects that reduce pollution. In line with the Biden Administration’s Justice40 Initiative, 40% of benefits from this competition are designed to flow to projects that benefit low-income and disadvantages communities.   JCF is led by the Community Builders of Color Coalition, a broad national network of Community Development Financial Institutions, financial institutions, and advocacy organizations.JCF is inviting all interested CDFIs to be part of their NCIF and CCIA applications. To gain access to these significant financial and technical assistance dollars, we encourage you to click the link below. It will take you to a short series of survey questions and ask you to submit a letter stating your support for the JCF's application. The portal will provide helpful letter templates to get you started. The deadline for submission is Friday, October 6, 2022. Click this link: https://lnkd.in/e9FVg_hP #JusticeClimateFund #CleanEnergyTransition #JCF #CleanEnergy #SupportLowIncomeCommunities

Exciting news, $100 billion of investment money for green banks starting to be moved via the US Inflation Reduction Act: "The EPA is awarding money to eight nonprofits, which have committed to leverage nearly $7 in private capital for every $1 of federal investment. The nonprofits have also pledged to ensure that at least 70 percent of the funds will benefit disadvantaged communities, and that the financed projects will reduce up to 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — equivalent to the annual emissions of nearly 9 million gasoline-powered cars." https://lnkd.in/eWcqjbxU

Fantastic news! This is an investment in energy efficiency and energy independence. Helping reduce the dangerous threat of global heating is icing on the cake (but really the most important thing). #epa #grant #investment #energyefficiency #energyindependence #community #incentive

REPORT 📔 | The Resilient Communities Fund got emergency support to community businesses at pace, implementing energy resilience projects in response to climate change and the cost-of-living crisis. The evaluation report by New Local shows that: 1️⃣ Community businesses are at the forefront of addressing the local impacts of the #climatecrisis. They deliver energy efficiency improvements, support local people with the climate crisis's impacts, and implement sustainable practices. The fund has helped safeguard local business, protect jobs and services, and build financial headroom. 2️⃣ The flexibility and simplicity of the fund was critical to its success and impact. This empowered community businesses, freeing them up from funding restrictions and day-to-day challenges and allowing them to tackle immediate pressures and plan for longer-term resilience. 3️⃣ Community businesses and the communities they support, are highly susceptible and exposed to climate change. They need flexible financial support& technical bespoke advice to build towards environmental sustainability. Read more about what we learned from funding projects in this way 👇 https://lnkd.in/enArfCyz

LAST CALL! Applications close August 1st for the MI Justice40 Accelerator and Climate Justice Challenge. Are you a community-based organization seeking funding for a clean energy and climate project? Or are applying for the EPA’s Community Change Grants program? The MI Justice40 Accelerator is cohort-based program will provide technical assistance funding and support to 25 Michigan community-based organizations over the next year to support competitive applications to state and federal funding. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gicMkAEB The Climate Justice Challenge for Community Change Grant commits to matching 5% of funds awarded successfully by the EPA to Michigan community-based organizations for those who apply to the EPA by August 1. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gMYwHxpz

Ensuring high-integrity Nature-based Solutions projects is doable if the correct steps are taken. Here Nicci Mander highlights three fundamental steps for success and takes us through some of their processes.

Nature For Justice has engaged with hundreds of nonprofits, civil society groups, businesses, and communities of faith who work at the local level, most of whom have reached out to us to learn about Nature-based Solutions (NbS). https://bit.ly/47enYhI is the N4J Communities and Project Integrity blog by the Director of our NbS Africa Program, (Nicci) Nicola Mander. It describes the three elements of our approach: project selection, partner evaluation, and partner skill building.   We see our role as working with local organizations to develop successful nature-based projects that meaningfully and permanently improve climate resilience for local people alongside making a contribution toward containing global warming. While this assurance of project success is also what our investors and funders look for, we also recognize that it is local communities that suffer the most if a project fails. A project that only brings carbon revenues to local beneficiaries without using carbon finance as a catalyst for positive, context-sensitive social-ecological systems change will not have long-term durability and therefore lacks integrity. This means a central need for projects to unlock meaningful and permanent improvements in financial revenue for smallholder farmers and/or communities and generate a tangible reduction in their exposure to climate-related threats, such as food, water, and energy security. Have a look at the blog https://bit.ly/47enYhI and you’ll see the three elements of project delivery capacity we evaluate and the seven considerations for organizational strength. Thanks Nicci! What are we missing? Pls let us know if you would add/edit/drop any of our ten core elements. We are always striving to improve.  Kate Thompson Oshin Katulkar Jessica Donovan- Allen Myles Mander Tess Zakaras   Steven Nitah Lisa Cloete    Kim Neale Flora Ji  Kristine Zeigler Joanna Marshall Jamie Bechtel Mary-Kate Craig  Tom Dillon  Astrid Coleman Debbie Cohen Isabelle Blanco  Manuel Pinuela, PhD   Camilla Seth  Denise Chang-Yen Steven Kallick Lorenzo Mandias  Jeffrey Brown Karen Kornbluh   Katherine Foster Paulina Arroyo Jennifer Lamson Leda Cunningham Philippa Lockwood Jonathan Duncan-Abelheim  Morgan Schneider  Michael O'Brien-Onyeka Zoraya Hightower Jasmine Gibson Patrick Brown Julia Levin Alice Ruhweza Duncan van Bergen #climatejustice      

Join us TOMORROW for a webinar with Emerald Cities Collaborative and the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund! As opportunities for federal funding for environmental justice efforts become more available, it is essential that community organizations understand the process and challenges of being a federal grantee. If you're currently navigating the complexities of federal grant applications or are considering this avenue for your organization, this webinar is an invaluable opportunity to learn from experts who have successfully navigated this space. Tomorrow at 12PM PST/3PM EST. Register here: https://bit.ly/3u9kP3D #FederalFunding #EJFunding #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #IRA #InflationReductionAct

What have you heard or read about the current #climatecrisis? Can you ascertain whether the information is right or wrong? Get the whole truth here 👇https://lnkd.in/d6x8x2Hn #FundOurFuture #ClimateJustice ActionAid