EJ4Climate: Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience

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EJ4Climate: Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience

What is EJ4Climate?

A grant program that supports underserved and vulnerable communities, and Indigenous communities, in Canada, Mexico, and the United States to prepare for climate-related impacts.

Project List

Deadlines

Proposals due » 21 November 2021 5:00 PM ET
Evaluation of grant applications » November 2021 - January 2022
Official grants announcement » 7 February 2022
Project implementation begins » February 2022
Projects maximum end dates » February 2024

Media

$2M in funding awarded to climate and environmental justice projects from Canada, Mexico and the US

March 24, 2022 EJ4Climate

Media

First ‘EJ4Climate’ Grant Program selects 15 winning Proposals from Across North America

February 22, 2022 EJ4Climate

Newsletter

DEADLINE EXTENSION: ‘EJ4Climate’ Grant Program

November 11, 2021 EJ4Climate

Help Your Community Enhance Climate Resilience

EJ4Climate seeks to foster climate resilience by improving the capacity of communities to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from hazardous events or disturbances related to climate change, which poses risks to human health, the environment, cultural resources, the economy, and quality of life.

FAQ

How does the CEC define environmental justice?

“…Environmental justice broadly covers fair and inclusive engagements of all in the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental legislation. It, herefore, refers directly to access to environment-related goods, such as clean water and energy or safe urban areas, or to protection from negative environmental pressures, like air and water pollution or deforestation (distributional justice). It also translates into equal access to the decision-making process of environmental policies (procedural justice). Finally, it has been argued that environmental justice should also achieve a healthy environment for all (substantive justice).”¹
In Mexico, the concept of environmental equity (equidad ambiental) is embedded in the law.²

¹ OECD, “Session 7 Environmental justice and empowering women and youth,” p. 2, 2020 Global Forum on Environment (internal citations omitted).
² General Law for Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection (LGEEPA), Article 21 paragraph IV

What do you mean by “vulnerable and underserved communities”?

This program is targeted to underserved and vulnerable communities, including Indigenous communities, low-income communities, and communities with heightened risk and increased sensitivity to climate change and that have less capacity and fewer resources to cope with, adapt to, or recover from climate impacts. The degree of risk and sensitivity stems from physical (built and environmental), social, political, and/or economic factors, which interact with each other and are exacerbated by climate impacts. These factors include, but are not limited to, race, class, sexual orientation and identification, national origin, and income inequality.³

³ See US Executive Order 13985