Community Climate Funding

Description

Community Climate Funding In November 2019, Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Roseanna Cunningham MSP, announced that a network of regional hubs would be created to build on the legacy of the CCF and support community climate action. Engagement with key stakeholders has greatly assisted in developing principles for the new framework. We propose that the hubs should provide a vehicle for communities to come together to engage in collective climate action, helping people to explore and adopt low-carbon behaviours, and supporting continued bottom-up change. In this way, community action can play a vital role in Scotland’s transition to a net zero society as well as enabling people to prepare themselves for the impacts of climate change. Specifically, the network of hubs should: empower communities to develop local solutions to making the transition to net zero and climate resilient living; encourage community groups to collaborate at regional level and to work in partnership with other key local stakeholders; allow an approach to be developed within each region that reflects local circumstances and priorities; have national coverage and seek broad community engagement; facilitate shared learning between different hubs/areas and the provision of technical advice – for example, on community energy or re-use initiatives. Hubs will not be required to administer significant project funding but will help community groups to access relevant funding opportunities.