Funding the work
A shortlist of grants, finance and customer programmes open to a company your size.
Thirty minutes on paying for the actions in your plan. We separate the self-funding list from the capital list, walk through the four sources of money for the capital items (government grants and tax relief, bank green products, energy supplier schemes, customer supplier programmes), search the grant databases live for an example business, and show how to put the funding route against each action in the plan. Bring your plan if you have one. Runs twice a year, with a guest from a lender or grant scheme where we can arrange one; the recording is on this page.
Resources from the session
- EBRD Green Economy Financing Facilities: green loans for efficient and renewable equipment through local partner banks in the EBRD's countries, with a technology finder. Free information; loans. Country pages in local languages.
- IFC climate finance through local banks: explains the IFC-backed green credit lines some local banks offer, so you know what to ask your bank for. Free, site also in Japanese, French and Arabic.
- SME Climate Hub Action Space: free guides by topic, finance among them. Free, also in Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, French and Portuguese.
- ClimateMate: a decarbonisation plan builder backed by real-world case studies, with the costs and savings used to fund each action. Free.
- Mission Transition Écologique (Ecological transition support finder): ADEME's finder for public grants and a local adviser, searched live in the session. In French. Free.
- DSIRE (Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency): search US state and federal efficiency and renewables incentives by ZIP code, searched live in the session. In English. Free.
- Claim your DitchCarbon profile: where funded and planned actions are recorded if your customer uses DitchCarbon. Free, about 30 seconds.
- Free help by country: free and public help in your own country and language. Free.
Get help
Email suppliersupport@ditchcarbon.com and hear back within two working days. Free, whether or not your customer uses DitchCarbon.
Free, takes about 30 seconds, and is where your customer reads your answer from.
