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It provides grants to charity organisations in the United Kingdom and internationally. Grantee organisations vary in focus but fall under the umbrella of one of the fund's designated funding themes. The fund was founded by King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, in 1979. At King Charles III's accession, the fund adopted its new name.
The Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 [67] is expected to boost the number of microgeneration installations, [68] however, funding for grants under the Low Carbon Building Programme is proving insufficient to meet demand with funds for March 2007 being spent in 75 minutes. [69]
Climate finance is "finance that aims at reducing emissions, and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gases and aims at reducing vulnerability of, and maintaining and increasing the resilience of, human and ecological systems to negative climate change impacts", as defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Standing Committee on Finance.
The Software Sustainability Institute is a national facility for building better software based in the UK and founded in 2010. The Institute is based at the University of Edinburgh ( EPCC formerly Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) with sites at the University of Manchester , the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton .
The Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF) is a new incentive scheme open to all householders in England and Wales wanting to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. [ 39 ] The scheme allows Householders to choose one or both of the two core offers available and may also be eligible to claim up to £7,600 as a bundled package.
The main project under this initiative is the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) which provides grants and loan funding to EU member states to support reform and investment. In order to access these funds, each EU Member State must propose a plan which must be approved by the European Commission and then by the Council. One of the most ...
In 2021, the European Investment Bank was the leading issuer of green and sustainability bonds among multilateral development banks, with sustainability funding reaching €11.5 billion equivalent. [30] [31] As of at least 2017, China held the largest share (23%) of the green bond market. [32]: 88
[34] [35] The Plug-In Van Grant scheme was extended in October 2016 to make electric trucks above 3.5 tonnes eligible for grants of up to £20,000. [ 36 ] As of September 2018 [update] , a total of 176,962 eligible cars have benefited from the subsidy since its launch in 2011, [ 37 ] and at the same date the number of claims made through the ...