Programs for Local Governments
Local governments can receive funds to reduce climate pollution through clean transportation, waste prevention, clean air initiatives, and more. Learn about open funding opportunities, resources to help you learn more about California Climate Investments and how to apply for funds, and read stories of funded projects led by local governments.
California Climate Investments is a portfolio of over 110 State climate programs that fund projects and programs like:
Community-led projects (e.g., community car sharing, composting)
Household-serving voucher programs (e.g., rebates for the purchase of cleaner cars, woodstove replacements)
Large-scale infrastructure projects (e.g., affordable housing, transit)
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Funds conservation and management of natural and working lands and technical assistance for land managers.
Funds development of the Regional Priority Plan, demonstration projects, and outreach.
Funds flood conveyance improvement and habitat restoration in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Funds habitat restoration and dust suppression projects to improve air quality and environmental conditions at the Salton Sea.
Funds project that advance ocean and coastal resilience and adaptation, consistent with the 2020-2025 Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan.
Funds planning and implementation projects that reduce the impacts of extreme heat and increase community resilience.
Funds placement of full-time service members with public agency, nonprofit, tribal, and educational institution partners to support community engagement efforts.
Technical assistance for small, disadvantaged communities to address drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, or groundwater needs.
Grants that support the development of sea level rise adaptation plans and projects to build resilience with a dedicated funding pathway for Tribes to assess and plan for impacts on cultural resources.
Financial incentives for planning, purchase, and installation of publicly available charging equipment.
Funds technologies that promote direct air capture of atmospheric carbon.
Financial incentives for EV charging stations with priority for shovel-ready projects in disadvantaged and low-income communities.
Grants that support the construction, renovation, or expansion of co-digestion facilities to preprocess and digest food material into biofuels or bioenergy.
Grants that support infrastructure projects that deploy zero-emission vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling for medium-duty and heavy-duty commercial fleets.
Financial incentives for installation of all-electric appliances, energy efficiency and weatherization measures, and related building upgrades in low-income communities.
Funds demonstration of business and technology models to promote large-scale deployment of EV charging infrastructure in multi-family housing.
Funds adoption of on-site renewable energy technologies, such as wind and solar, at agricultural operations.
Funds establishment, enhancement, and expansion of community spaces and parks, tree planting, green infrastructure in streets and alleys, and the construction of active transportation infrastructure.
Grants that support activities that prevent food waste from being generated and/or becoming landfill waste and distribution of rescued food to people.
Grants that support the construction, renovation, or expansion of facilities to preprocess, digest, or compost organics into compost, soil amendments, biofuels, or bioenergy.
Loans to fund the construction, renovation, or expansion of facilities for the preprocessing, digesting, or composting of organics or the manufacture of value-added finished products using recycled fiber, plastic, or glass.
Grants that support construction, renovation, or expansion of facilities to process or manufacture value-added products from California-derived, newly diverted fiber, plastic, or glass waste.
Grants that support replacement of single use containers, food service ware, and packaging with durable, reusable products and recovery of lumber, wood flooring, or wood furniture from landfills or through deconstruction projects for reuse.
Grants that support capacity planning, collection, edible food recovery, education and outreach, enforcement and inspection, program evaluation/gap analysis, procurement requirements, and record keeping.
Funds capital improvements that will modernize and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, vehicle miles traveled, and congestion from California’s intercity or commuter rail service, urban rail transit, or bus or ferry service.
Funds nature-based projects to increase community resilience to sea level rise.
Funds nature-based projects to increase community resilience to sea level rise.
Funds projects that increase soil organic carbon, enhance fish and wildlife habitat, protect and improve water quality, increase flood protection, improve groundwater recharge, and develop resiliency to sea level rise in wetlands.
Grants that support training program that increase access to high-quality jobs for underserved populations.
California Climate Investments puts billions of Cap-and-Invest dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, improving public health and the environment, and providing meaningful benefits to the most disadvantaged communities and low-income communities and households.
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