Voting open for Dundee Climate Fund 3.0

Voting has now opened for the public to decide which projects to receive support through the city’s Dundee Climate Fund 3.0.

Members of the public are to decide on which local community projects acting on climate change, reducing their carbon emissions and engaging with communities, they would like to give their backing to.

The Dundee Climate Fund became the first council-led green participatory budgeting initiative in Scotland to take place.

The latest round of the Dundee Climate Fund has twenty projects from around the city in which voters can choose from.

Climate, Environment & Biodiversity Convener Councillor Heather Anderson said: “This is a fantastic initiative that gets support straight to the many Dundee-based projects that have great original, community-driven solutions for minimising carbon emissions within the city.

“Following the success of the first and second rounds of the Dundee Climate Fund, it’s important we roll out this funding to local community groups working on the ground and implementing the positive change we all want to see in our city.

“Residents can do their bit by voting directly for the projects they want to see get that backing.”

Dundee declared a climate emergency in 2019 to recognise the serious environmental, social and economic challenges faced by climate change, and launched the Dundee Climate Action Plan with the backing of local companies and organisations.

The Dundee Climate Fund 3.0 accepted projects between June and October 2024 focused on the following topics:

• energy - reducing consumption, promoting energy efficiency, use of renewables;
• transport - encouraging active travel, decarbonising transport;
• waste - reducing waste, recycling, reusing resources;
• resilience - improving greenspaces, biodiversity, local food growing; and
• raising awareness (building capacity) - increasing public awareness, engaging communities and young people in climate change.

Information on each proposal and how to vote can be found on the Dundee’s Voice website.

Voting is open until Monday 17th March, and the successful projects will be notified in the weeks following the end of the voting period.