Deadline: November 17, 2025
The Climate Change Business Innovation Grant Program aims to support Tasmanian businesses in taking practical climate actions that focus on local innovation, collaboration, and partnerships.
The focus areas of the program include supporting Tasmanian businesses to take local, innovative climate action to reduce emissions and transition to a low-emissions economy, build resilience and manage the impacts of a changing climate, facilitate collaboration and partnerships that improve information sharing and awareness of climate change impacts and opportunities, and provide opportunities and co-benefits to the specific industry or broader Tasmanian community.
The Tasmanian Government is committed to collaborating with local businesses to reduce emissions, transition to a low-emissions economy, and increase resilience to climate impacts. This program emerges from the Emissions Reduction and Resilience Plans and Roadmap 2024-29 which highlight the need for financial support to trial and develop new business practices that reduce emissions and build resilience. It funds innovative projects defined as those applying new, novel, or unique concepts specifically relevant to the Tasmanian context. Through these efforts, the program expects outcomes such as an enhanced understanding of climate change impacts among businesses, reductions in emissions, higher adoption of emissions reduction technologies, improved resilience, greater cross-sector collaboration, and broader community benefits.
The program has an allocated fund of $550,000, offering grants between $25,000 and $100,000. Applicants must provide a co-contribution of at least 30% of the approved grant amount. Eligibility requires businesses to be registered with an active Australian Business Number (ABN), located and operating in Tasmania, with annual turnovers between $500,000 and $55 million in the prior two years.
The grant supports a diverse range of projects demonstrating or trialing new or existing concepts, scaling existing ideas, or distributing information for community awareness. Projects must align with program objectives, address specific problems, benefit the Tasmanian community, be completed within 18 months, and operate within Tasmania.
Funding cannot be used for routine business expenses, retrospective costs, or legal fees. Applications are competitive and assessed on alignment with objectives, community benefits, applicant’s ability to deliver, and value for money.
For more information, visit ReCFIT.
