Impact Funding Resources
CCAC is seeking to fund innovative, cross-sector projects that respond to a specific “challenge” — especially those that unite the super pollutant community around a common goal.
Start Date25 Jun 2025 End Date06 Aug 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 2mn Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderClimate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
Grant
Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
Through the Food & Nutrition Challenge, the CCAC is seeking innovative cross-sector proposals that advance multiple focus areas outlined below:
• Strengthen the natural cycles, improving at scale nutrient and material flows between rural and urban systems, or within the rural or urban circular/bio economies diverting organic waste for better uses (e.g. landscaping, gardening/farming, bio-based products or others) and boosting resilience through (urban/rural) planning, development, infrastructure, logistics, financial mechanisms including certification and trade, while taking local circumstances and traditions into account;
• Advance agroecological practices and measures to preserve soils, environment and livelihoods improved food security, resilience to climate change/desertification and nutrition outcomes such as application of the soil conditioner compost/digestate at scale and soil management, crop diversification, intercropping, agroforestry, integrating crop and livestock;
• Expand along the entire value chain energy-efficient cold, sustainable and inclusive cold-chain services based on low- and ultra-low GWP refrigerants, HFC alternatives or other services that lead to a substantial reduction of food loss, including farmer access to post-harvest product storage and “first mile” infrastructure to transport produce.
• Support the prevention wastage of edible food or the redistribution of food waste, which is appropriate for consumption, including through infrastructure and greater investment at sub-national level. Proposals responding to this focus area should support the objectives of the COP29 Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste.
• Shape and strengthen financial systems to document GHG emission reductions in a transparent, accountable manner and to create/use clear, subject-related indicators for all GHG/super pollutant emissions sources to demonstrate a wider impact related to framework conditions or replicability or alike, with a clear methodology outlined in the project proposal.
Successful projects will be announced at COP30 alongside the possible launch of other related CCAC activities (including a possible CCAC Agriculture-focused Flagship, and some preliminary findings and discussions around the upcoming CCAC Integrated Assessment on Agriculture and Food).
What we are looking for
• Proposals should target at least 2 of the focus areas outlined above and show cross-sector approaches to reducing food loss & waste
• Proposals should target innovative approaches that are collaborative, scalable, and address more than one of the above-mentioned challenges
• Proposals should show GHG/super pollutant reductions and impacts of all non-GHG/super pollutants-related areas by indicators
• Proposals should clearly outline their proposed approach/methodology
• Engagement with sub-national, private sector and other stakeholders is encouraged
• Proposals from consortiums are encouraged including from local NGOs, government entities, and international organizations
• Proposals with co-funding or in-kind contributions are encouraged including from private sector stakeholders or other donor schemes than those of CCAC
• Proposals must target activities in ODA-eligible countries
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/oda-eligibility-and-conditions/dac-list-of-oda-recipients.html#oda-recipients-list
Applicant Types
The CCAC can only fund non-profit entities, which include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and government entities.
For-profit entities are not eligible to receive CCAC funding, though may participate in projects as stakeholders, collaborators, or co-funders. Applicants are encouraged to include for-profit entities in the development of the project proposal and during project implementation when their ownership of the proposed solution is key to the project’s success.
