resilience & climate adaptation offerings

resiliency & climate adaptation offerings

With the rapidly changing climate, the time is now to implement innovations and nature-based solutions that help protect our planet. By making timely improvements, you are investing in our future quality-of-life and creating more resilient communities. The Connecticut Green Bank offers financing and incentives for resiliency measures to help you and your loved ones accelerate these methods in your homes, buildings, and communities to make a difference.

In 2021, the Green Bank’s model was expanded to include new areas of environmental infrastructure, related to climate adaptation and resiliency, land conservation, parks and recreation, agriculture, water, waste and recycling, and environmental markets, including carbon offsets and ecosystem services. Our approach to environmental infrastructure includes hard infrastructure improvements which increase social and ecological resilience as well as nature-based solutions — which encompass a wide range of actions to protect, manage, or restore natural or modified ecosystems to address challenges, including climate change.

For Homeowners

Keep your home safe from the impacts of climate change and extreme weather like heavy rains, high winds, tree damage, flooding, power outages, and more with the Smart-E loan. There are many improvements that can be financed with this low interest, flexible term loan to mitigate risk and become more resilient.

Considering installing solar or already have solar? Learn about how Energy Storage Solutions can reduce the cost of having battery storage to save the energy your panels generate.

For Building Owners

Learn how C-PACE could help your commercial, nonprofit, or multifamily property improve its resilience through measures such as:

Climate change adaptations related to flood management, extreme weather and heat, wind, sea level rise,
Nature-based solutions that promote stormwater management, healthy vegetation, soils and aquatic ecosystems, and
FORTIFIED Designations.

For Other Financing Needs

Developing projects that aren’t eligible to use our suite of existing home or building solutions? The Green Bank can support environmental infrastructure projects that require investment through our Green Bank Capital Solutions. Contractors and developers can submit a proposal to find the financial support they need.