Agriculture, Climate, Environment, Energy & Food: April 2025 Funding Opportunities
Latest funding opportunities for social enterprises and non-profits in the Agriculture, Climate, Environment and Food sectors.
The grants are organized into three categories:
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date.
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible).
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows.
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Open Calls:
Climate Policy and Governance in Nigeria, UK PACT. *Closing soon!*
Seeking applications from projects aimed at providing technical assistance to support key opportunities for strengthening governance, enhancing institutional capacity, and aligning policy implementation to achieve Nigeria’s climate goals in an equitable and inclusive manner. Project must align with one of three project areas; 1. Strengthening climate governance and policy implementation, enhancing Nigeria’s capacity in global climate negotiations, 2. Data and monitoring for climate action: building robust climate data and MRV systems, 3. Private sector climate action: enhancing private sector capacity for climate action.
Geographies: Nigeria.
Who can apply: For profit and non-profit organizations including think-tanks, consultancies, academic institutions, community organizations, NGOs, professional associations, or any similar organizations.
Funding amount: £500,000 per financial year. Projects typically run for 12-22 months.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Climate, governance.
Deadline: April 3, 2025.
776 Fellowship, 776 Foundation. *New!*
Now accepting applications for the Fellowship Program, a two-year program for young people who want to build a better future. They are searching for the builders, the doers — people motivated by problems and using that energy to create real, measurable solutions that will benefit underserved communities and fight climate change. The Fellowship Program gives 20 remarkable people the age of 24 and under the chance to spend two years working on the bright idea that’s keeping them up at night.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Young people aged 18-24.
Funding amount: USD $100,000 grant.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Climate change.
Deadline: April 14, 2025.
2025 Global Climate Challenge, MIT SOLVE. *Closing soon!*
MIT Solve seeks exceptional solutions that leverage technology to address any aspect of the climate crisis with a particular interest for 2025 in solutions that: 1. Drive a shift towards a low-carbon and nutritious global food system, across large and small-scale producers plus supply chains. 2. Build zero-carbon and resilient cities, including through better construction or retrofitting of multi-family or commercial buildings, enabling non-car transportation, and managing extreme weather. 3. Enable rapid deployment of distributed renewable energy and adaptation measures, such as community-scale solar, ecosystem restoration, or cooling/dehumidification. 4. Strengthen a low-carbon blue economy, including sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, marine industry, or ecosystem conservation. Each Solver team receives $10,000 in unrestricted funding from Solve and access to additional financing in the form of grants and investments, this includes access to a pool of +$1.5M in prize funding at selection and additional funding opportunities throughout the program and after.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Applicants welcome from all organizations from any stages (concept, prototype, pilot, growth and scale).
Funding amount: $10,000 - $150,000.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Climate, food and agriculture, resilient cities, energy, blue economy, conservation.
Deadline: April 17, 2025.
Calls for Collective Action, Healthy Food Healthy Planet (HFHP). *New!* *Closing soon!*
HFHP is pleased to invite civil society organisations based in Europe to participate in the open Calls to Collective Action which aims bring forward innovative ideas and collaborate with partners to shape healthier, just and sustainable food environments. The focus areas are: 1. Strengthening Subnational Leadership and Elevating Local Impact - Bridging Local Initiatives to National and European Food System Transformation, 2. Strengthen communities against the harms of industrial livestock production to public health and justice, and 3. Accelerate corporate accountability in food systems towards mandatory mechanisms.
Geographies: Europe.
Who can apply: Each project must be cocreated by two or more core partners: civil society organizations, grassroots organizations, coalitions, alliances, or networks of organizations are welcome to apply.
Funding amount: Grants typically range from €200,000 - €800,000, they aim to fund between 3 and 10 projects, depending on the size of the applications.
Targeted Sectors/ SDG
Deadline: April 18, 2025.
Learn more and apply here.
Forest Governance Markets and Climate (FGMC2) programme: accountable grants, FCDO. *Closing soon!*
This call is seeking proposals in the form of short Concept Notes from non-government organizations who are working to sustain global forests through policy action (e.g. think tanks, advocacy groups, trade associations) whose actions are aligned to FGMC2 objectives, as well as organizations working to strengthen the civil society and private sector voice and capacities in national forest policy decision-making. Selected Accountable Grants will help the programme to gain a strong foothold in focus countries and improved understanding of global processes. To foster the amplification of FGMC2 results selected grantees will work across themes and geographies covered by the programme, build stakeholder capacity for quality deliberative processes, with a focus on understanding, evidence and building of coalitions and networks to drive change. It is expected that grants will support: advocacy, capacity building, convening, transparency measures and evidence building.
Geographies: Cameroon, China, Congo (Democratic Republic), Gabon, Ghana, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Laos, Liberia, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vietnam.
Who can apply: International and national non-government organizations (NGOs), federations and membership bodies.
Funding amount: £500,000 -£5,000,000 for projects lasting up to 3.5 years (till February 2029).
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Climate change, Empowerment and accountability, Environment, Girls and women, Innovation and Private sector/business.
Deadline: April 18, 2025.
Call for Hydrogen Projects in Europe, The Clean Hydrogen Partnership. *Closing this month!*
The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is accepting proposals for projects to support the creation of cutting-edge hydrogen technologies, including in renewable hydrogen production, hydrogen storage and distribution, transport, heat and power, as well as the creation of hydrogen valleys. There are 19 new grant opportunities under this call which can be seen here.
Geographies: Europe.
Who can apply: All legal entities.
Funding amount: Varies by each topic, total budget for the call is € 184.5 million.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Energy, climate.
Deadline: April 23, 2025.
Climate Finance Structures Accelerator - Cycle 4, Catalytic Climate Finance Facility. *Closing soon!*
The CC Facility supports and accelerates blended finance structures targeting climate action in developing economies. For this round, the Facility will be looking for market-ready blended climate finance structures with a special focus on sustainable agriculture adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia, Asia-Pacific or Southeast Asia.
Geographies: Applicants can be domiciled anywhere, but end beneficiaries must be in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia, Asia-Pacific or Southeast Asia.
Who can apply: Organizations or a consortium of organizations, including advisory firms, foundations, not-for-profits, fund managers, and private enterprises with market-ready structures moving through an initial adoption stage in their development process.
Funding amount: Grant of $500,000.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Climate mitigation and adaptation, agriculture, climate finance, gender, private capital mobilization.
Deadline: Current round closes April 24, 2025. An additional round is expected in late 2025.
Learn more and apply here.
Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)- Civil Society, Norad. *Closing this month!*
The purpose of this call is to contribute to achieving NICFI’s main objective; reduced and reversed loss of tropical forests contributes to a stable climate, protects biodiversity and enhances sustainable development. Preference will be given to proposals that will contribute to one or several of the following strategic areas: 1. Supporting ambitious policies for sustainable forest and land use in tropical forest countries. 2. Improved rights and livelihoods for Indigenous Peoples, and local communities in tropical forest countries. 3. Reduced forest crime. 4. Sustainable commodity production, trade, and finance.
Geographies: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, DR Congo, Gabon, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. Other tropical forest countries that are important for maintaining the integrity of tropical forests across national boundaries may also be prioritized. In addition, targeted activities can take place in countries that play a key role in limiting global demand for deforestation-risk commodities as long as the application makes clear that the final beneficiaries are population groups in developing countries.
Who can apply: Non-profits, NGOs. Applicants are encouraged to form consortia of organizations that together could meet the objectives of the call.
Funding amount: NOK 15 million - 75 million per year. Norad seeks to fund around 20 projects for 2026-2028.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Climate, deforestation, biodiversity,
Deadline: Concept note due by April 24, 2025.
Off-Grid Renewable Energy Grants: Round 1, REnew Pacific. *New!* *Closing this month!*
REnew Pacific is calling for applications from potential partners to deliver off-grid renewable energy solutions in remote and rural communities across the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste. This Call for Proposals seeks solutions that will increase access to reliable and affordable off-grid renewable energy in rural and remote communities and improve lives, livelihoods and climate resilience of remote communities, especially women and people with disabilities.Specifically they are looking for cost effective, long-lasting solutions to the well-informed development and climate resilience needs of rural and remote communities that are based on renewable energy generation. The following forms of renewable energy generation will be considered eligible; solar, wind, hydro, tidal and biogas. Additional eligible solutions include battery storage and other forms of system firming, micro-grids, mini-grids, wiring and distribution systems to households or facilities, metering systems, controllers, monitors and inverters.
Geographies: Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
Who can apply: Partnerships that can include members from the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community and religious organizations (e.g. church groups), academic institutions, utilities and government entities.
Funding amount: Grants range $250,000 - $3M.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Energy, climate change, rural communities.
Deadline: April 28, 2025.
Call for Carbon Dioxide Removal Innovation, B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE). *New!* *Closing this month!*
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