Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has committed £10m to 100 organisations across Scotland to support climate change actions.
The announcement has been made at R:evolve Recycle shop, which is a clothing swap shop aiming to reduce the textile waste. The shop is one of the organisations receiving the fund and has just been awarded a further £143,416.
The Climate Change Fund for 2017-18 is £9.97m. Scottish Government contributes £9.9m while the European Regional Development Fund contributes £0.88m to this fund. Since the fund started, over £85m has been awarded to support actions tackling the climate change.
Sturgeon said: "Scotland is making huge progress in delivering our climate change ambitions, but there is still much to achieve and the role of behaviour change and community action is crucial. The Climate Change Fund supports community projects that inspire people to care about the problem of climate change, consider what it might mean to them in terms of their everyday lives and enable them to take action."
Chief executive of Zero Waste Scotland, Iain Gulland, said: "Scotland's ambitions for a circular economy, where we make things last for longer, go hand in hand with its world-leading commitments to tackling climate change. Thanks to extra investment from the European Regional Development Fund, we're now able to help more communities across Scotland take action locally to benefit Scotland's environment."
