Actions for organizations

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Retrofit a commercial or institutional building

Check out our Good Energy program for upgrading commercial and institutional buildings, such as offices, restaurants and community centres.

We have Good Energy rebates for upgrades to commercial, institutional and community buildings.
See the Better Buildings Program for low-cost funding to support qualifying energy upgrades.
Check out our carbon rebate and the Super Green Credit for businesses that invest in green technologies and equipment.

Champion a community-led renewable energy project

Big, community-led renewable energy projects help reduce emissions on a larger scale. You can apply for funding from the Yukon Development Corporation.

Learn more about the Innovative Renewable Energy Initiative.

Start a community garden

Try starting a community garden or greenhouse to support growing local foods in your area.

Financial assistance is available from our Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership funding program.

Become a local food producer

Whether you're a commercial farm, a small business, a non-profit organization, a First Nation government or municipality, you can start growing local foods.

See available funding for learning how to or for producing food.
Read Cultivating our future: 2020 Yukon agriculture policy.

Build your farm's resilience to climate change

Farming operations can be impacted by climate change. Apply for funding to enhance and adapt your farming operations to climate change.

See available funding for agricultural adaptation to climate change.

Start a community development project

You can take on a community development project if you're a:

municipal or First Nation government;
non-profit;
charitable organization;
First Nation development corporation.

Apply to the Community Development Fund for sustainable community development project funding. This could include improvements to land or buildings and clean energy modifications.

Apply for a community project and event funding.

Yukoners taking action

In 2021, the Town of Faro started the process to begin work cleaning the Faro Sewage Lagoons using diesel-powered cleaning equipment that was lengthy, expensive and emissions intensive.

In 2022, they transitioned to an enzyme treatment process to reduce costs and emissions from use. From 2022-2024, the Town spent less than a total of $40,000, over $200,000 less than the anticipated cost of using diesel-powered cleaning equipment. The enzyme treatment was so successful in biologically processing waste in the Lagoon that there is now hardly any build-up. To complete the whole process, the Town did not require any heavy-duty diesel equipment expected in the initial plan. The Town describes it as a triple-win: lower cost; environmentally safer; and a better final product.

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