The Urban Greening Grant Program allocates approximately $100M for projects that use nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change impacts such as the urban heat island effect, rising temperatures, and extreme heat.

Urban Greening projects use nature-based solutions—planting trees that provide strategic shade, expanding green spaces that serve as places of refuge during heat waves, and creating green streets and alleyways that capture and clean stormwater—to help communities become more climate resilient. 

Successful projects will green and cool communities and offer multiple benefits including sequestering carbon, limiting stormwater runoff, providing habitat and preserving biodiversity, protecting public health during extreme heat, increasing equity, and expanding economic and workforce opportunities.

Funded projects are expected to advance the goals of the state's Extreme Heat Action Plan and Nature-Based Solutions Climate Targets. Funding is provided through California's voter-approved Climate Bond (Prop 4) and will be awarded in two competitive cycles, with $46,125,000 available in the first round.

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