Climate Finance Resource Hub
Fund your climate actions.
Our Climate Financing Program is designed to help communities overcome the financial barriers to climate action. Whether supporting disaster recovery, or enabling proactive investments in climate resilience, we work closely with communities to plan, fund, and execute projects that meet their goals.
- Mobilize financing into a wide variety of adaptation and mitigation projects
- Catalyze innovative investment into climate positive technologies and projects
- Develop economic development strategies for communities
Climate finance is focused on providing communities in the private and public sector with the financial expertise needed to make climate friendly projects a reality.
Working with our climate finance team, climate conscious projects are supported by being connected with grants and initiatives designed to secure funding which will help your community, municipality, or business step towards the future.
Learn more about climate financing, and how your community, business, or municipality can benefit from it with the resources below!
General Resources:
Homeowner and Business Resources:
- Incentives for Maine Residents
- CEI Solar Loans
- SEA Maine (Seafood Economic Accelerator)
- HUD Climate Resilience Implementation Guide
Emergency Management Resources:
Learn more about climate finance:
Project Team
Project Sponser
This project is supported by our partner: New England Environmental Finance Center.
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MAR19
Applying Liberating Structures to Increase Connection & Engagement in CLEs
Delve into some tools from Liberating Structures and discuss applications with other CLE leaders. For folks in a CLE leadership role.
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MAR23
Applying Liberating Structures to Increase Connection & Engagement in CLEs
Delve into some tools from Liberating Structures and discuss applications with other CLE leaders. For folks in a CLE leadership role.
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MAR25
Sensemaking Through Place with VR: Virtual Field Trip Information Session
Join the Stanford Accelerator for Learning VFT Team for an introduction into the world and possibilities of virtual field trips.
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Starting a Climate Committee: A Personal Guide
In 2024, while living in Woolwich, Dave Berndtson launched the town’s first climate resilience committee. He’s now a resident of Arrowsic (and a member of …
Perspectives
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What does climate readiness look like for Maine’s towns?
Climate readiness looks different in every community, with each facing its own unique risks, priorities, and visions for the future. Through sustained relationships, place-based data, …
Perspectives
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2025 Gulf of Maine Temperature Report
Over the past decade, our scientists have led a body of research that highlights temperatures in the Gulf of Maine. To keep you informed, we …
Reports
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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) 101
This 101 explainer breaks down what the AMOC is, how it influences climate, what scientists are observing now, and what a changing AMOC could mean …
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