Climate Change Business Innovation Grant Program 2025

The Tasmanian Government is committed to taking practical climate action and collaborating with Tasmanian businesses to reduce emissions, transition to a low emissions economy, and increase resilience to the impacts of a changing climate.

The Climate Change Business Innovation Grant Program is a commitment in Tasmania’s Emissions Reduction and Resilience Roadmap 2024-29 (the roadmap) to support businesses to take action on climate change, focusing on local innovation, collaboration and partnerships.

The Tasmanian Government has allocated $550,000 to support businesses to take action on climate change, focusing on local innovation, collaboration, and partnerships.

The program will provide grants of between $25,000 and $100,000 to eligible businesses.

Successful applicants must supply a cash co-contribution of at least 30 per cent (30%) of the approved grant funding amount.

The program objectives are to:

• support 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.
• provide opportunities and co-benefits to the specific industry or broader Tasmanian community.

For the purposes of this program, innovative action means applying a new, novel or unique concept to your industry or the Tasmanian context.

Before proceeding with the application, please ensure that you meet all eligibility criteria in the Program Guidelines.

If you are unsure about your eligibility, please get in touch with the Climate Change Office at (03) 6166 4466 or climatechange@recfit.tas.gov.au

To be eligible for a grant under this program, you must:

• be registered for tax purposes in Australia with a continuously active Australian Business Number (ABN) on or before 22 September 2024.
  
  Exceptions to the above may be considered, for example:

• • An applicant that has purchased a business that was actively trading for at least 12 months before 22 September 2024.
    
    
  • An applicant that has changed their business structure which has resulted in a new active ABN issued after 22 September 2024, but the business has been in operation for at least 12 months from the time of applying for the grant.
    
    Note: you will be required to provide relevant evidence to support your application.

• be able to demonstrate that the business is currently located and operating in Tasmania.
  
  
• be able to demonstrate an annual business turnover of greater than $500,000 and less than $55 million in either of the previous two financial years.
  
  
• have the funding available to co‑contribute at least 30 per cent (30%) of the approved grant funding amount.

Due to limited funding, applicants who meet the applicant eligibility criteria will not automatically be awarded grant funding, and not all applications will be successful. Applications will be competitively assessed against the assessment criteria. Only one application per ABN will be considered.

We may use third-party software to check the authenticity of your information.

You will not be eligible for this program if you are:

• a not-for-profit organisation, incorporated association, or charity, unless the organisation operates as a business employing paid staff and selling goods and services to customers that make up more than 30 per cent of the entity’s income.
• a business for sale, planning towards sale, trading insolvent, under external administration or bankruptcy at the time of applying.
• an investment entity that solely generates passive turnover from residential and commercial property investment and/or the renting of property.
• a local, state or Australian Government entity.
• an entity whose primary purpose is political activity.

You also may not be eligible for this grant if you:

• Have previously failed to acquit a grant awarded to you by the Tasmanian Government.

If you are not eligible to apply, you may still be part of a joint application or consortium, provided you have an eligible lead business.