The Province is investing $37 million dollars from the Green Fund in projects that support the goals of the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
$15 million dollars over the next three years will go to the Sustainable Communities Challenge Fund, which supports communities to adapt to the impacts of climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tim Halman, Environment and Climate Change Minister says “climate change impacts every Nova Scotian in every community across this province” Halman also says, “To achieve our targets, we need to support the type of transformative change required to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.”
Other projects include $8 million to both the SolarHomes incentive program for single-family homes to install solar photovoltaic systems and to extend the Home Energy Assessment program, which provides low-cost subsidized energy assessments for people using oil heating and incentives of up to $5,000 to energy efficiency retrofits.
$3.3 million over the next three years to help support the implementation of climate change initiatives by the Department of Environment and Climate Change.
$2 million for affordable housing retrofits to upgrade one- and two-unit housing units in Cape Breton; the Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing is also contributing $2 million dollars bringing the total to $4 million.
And $1 million for flood line mapping to provide communities with coastal and inland floodplain maps that incorporate climate change.
