Clare County Council has been granted over half a million euros in government funding to make the county’s communities more environmentally friendly.
The funding comes through the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications under the Community Climate Action Programme.
The local authority has been allocated a total of €572,000 for investment in small, medium and large-scale community climate action projects which make communities more sustainable.
A major aim of the funding is to enable the council to work in partnership with communities in order to reduce their reliance on carbon-emitting energy sources in a “considered and structured way”.
In addition, €3 million has been made available to support cross-border and all-island community climate action partnerships between community organisations in Clare and in Northern Ireland.
The projects must include at least one of five themes, which are community and energy; travel; food and waste; shopping and recycling; and local and environmental action.
The Community Climate Action Programme is intended to support the delivery of the new five-year Climate Action Plan for Clare which is currently in development.
Community groups who wish to apply for the programme can do so through the Clare County Council website.
