Te Pūtea Whakamauru Para Waste Minimisation Fund
Grants for New Zealand legal entities building infrastructure that keeps organic waste out of landfill.
Climate grants
Grants for cutting emissions and adapting to climate change.
Funding opportunities (21)
Grants and tax incentives
Grants to scale ecosystem-based adaptation
Grants of up to USD 250,000 for organisations scaling ecosystem-based adaptation, with priority for work in ODA-eligible small island developing states and least developed countries.
Business Fellowship
A full-time paid fellowship for experienced climate-business professionals to help early-stage climate-technology teams reach market, with an industry-competitive living stipend.
Explorer Grants
Grants for scientists and researchers worldwide to test high-risk, early-stage climate technologies while remaining in their current university, laboratory or research role.
Warmer Kiwi Homes
Grants towards insulation and heat pumps for qualifying New Zealand homeowners who live in a home built before 2008.
Innovating for Climate Resilience
Funding to test and expand climate-adaptation solutions that can improve the lives of millions of people living in poverty in developing countries. Applications are currently closed.
Large innovation projects
Grants of up to US$5 million to scale or spread innovative climate-adaptation solutions in eligible developing countries, submitted through accredited implementing entities.
Options assessment for piped natural gas users
Co-funding for an independent assessment of ways to reduce piped natural gas use, including energy efficiency and renewable alternatives, for New Zealand businesses.
Fleet study pilot
Co-funding for a fleet study to help New Zealand businesses without telematics data improve vehicle use, reduce fuel consumption and identify cost savings.
Low Emissions Heavy Vehicle Fund
Grants of up to 25% towards approved new heavy vehicles or vehicle conversions in New Zealand, delivered through approved suppliers and converters as a reduction in the operator’s price.
Diesel-boiler replacement feasibility study
Up to 40% of the cost of a diesel-boiler fuel-switching feasibility study or business case, capped at NZD50,000, for eligible New Zealand organisations.
Type 3 energy audit for diesel boilers
Reimburses 40% of a detailed diesel-boiler audit and report, up to NZD20,000, for eligible New Zealand organisations with annual diesel-system bills over NZD500,000.
Very high temperature heat pump funding for service providers
Closed EECA funding round for experienced service providers to develop and deliver industrial heat-pump projects in New Zealand, with up to NZD10 million per provider allocation.
Energy audit co-funding
Co-funding for detailed facility or equipment-system energy audits that identify energy savings and emissions cuts, for large-energy-use private businesses and public organisations.
Energy systems optimisation
Co-funding for large energy users in New Zealand to tune existing equipment and controls, cutting energy use and emissions.
Feasibility studies and business cases
Historical co-funding for New Zealand businesses and public organisations to assess energy-efficiency or renewable-energy projects.
Energy graduate support
Closed co-funding for large energy users to employ an energy graduate and identify energy-efficiency savings.
Tourism sustainability grants
Grants for tourism industry organisations and private enterprises to build sustainability skills or help New Zealand communities adapt to climate change.
Te Ara Urutau – Climate and Emergency Ready Fund
Grants of NZD5,000–50,000 for community and Māori-led projects that cut carbon emissions in Auckland.
Green Spark Fund
Grants of up to £2,000 for community-led climate-resilience projects by Communities for Nature partners and groups in their partner communities.
Investment in the company
Primary Sector Growth Fund
MPI co-investment for New Zealand primary-sector businesses, industry bodies and groups developing innovations with wider benefits for food, fibre and rural communities.