Tools & Apps

Grants & Funding

Asia

• Livable Cities: Financing Partnership Facility "The urban operations of ADB benefits from the support of notable trust funds, which are collectively referred to as the Urban Financing Partnership Facility. Under this umbrella, strategic, long-term, multi-partner investments on innovative urban solutions are implemented. These investments help to achieve the vision of livable cities." These include:

  • ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund

  • Cities Development Initiative for Asia

  • Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF) eligible countries include Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and Vietnam.

  • Urban Environmental Infrastructure Fund (UEIF)

North America

USA

• The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) Program "provides $5 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. Authorized under Section 60114 of the Inflation Reduction Act, this two-phase program provides $250 million for noncompetitive planning grants, and approximately $4.6 billion for competitive implementation grants."

Western Australia

• The Sustainability Grants Program (in the City of Cockburn) "offers funding for projects related to six sustainability themes. Open to small businesses, schools, not-for-profits, and collective households, successful applicants can receive up to $4,000 for their project."

Maps

International

• KFW: Interactive World Map of Renewable Energy Interactive map shows the solar, wind, and hydropower usage of each country. Just click a country on the map, or select the name via the dropdown. Data accurate as of (at least) 2017.

• Our World In Data: Share of Primary Energy from Renewable Sources, 2021 "Renewable energy sources include hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, bioenergy, wave, and tidal. They don't include traditional biofuels, which can be a key energy source, especially in lower-income settings." Interactive maps shows current and historical renewables use with a pop up graph for each country.
  Be careful with the pop up graphs on this page because they only go as high as the maximum current or historical percent level, meaning some graphs only go as high as 17% or 50% renewable energy in the grid mix, but will look much higher if you glance at them with the assumption each is set with a maximum of 100%.

Companies

Europe

Portugal

• CascataChuva  "Our humidity-to-electricity converter device combines at the micro-level a sequence- chain of physicochemical, physical, and electrophysical processes that take place on the interface of nanostructured oxide materials when interacting with water molecules from the surrounding atmosphere, thus enabling direct humidity adsorption – electrical energy conversion without consuming water.
  
  Due to modularity, converter devices can be adapted to various appliances ranging from a large-scale energy production plant to a household or a non- profit organization in all environments where the relative humidity is over 30%."

• Nanomaterials R&D "is a manufacturing company. It makes a broad spectrum of dispersive and pressed oxide nanomaterials. The company’s work directs the creation of nanopowders for research investigation."

Ukraine

• Nanotechcenter "Про компанію Компанію ТОВ НАНОТЕХЦЕНТР створено для застосування дослідно-промислових і лабораторних технологій виробництва нанорозмірних порошків різних речовин і призначення та їх комерціалізації.
  
  Нанопорошки є сьогодні найважливішим високотехнологічним продуктом, потрібним для виробництва широкої гами наноструктурних матеріалів конструкційного, функціонального і біомедичного призначення."