A total of 14 recipients of the €2 million Creative Climate Action fund have been announced.

The Creative Ireland initiative supports creative, cultural and artistic projects that build awareness around climate change and empowers citizens to make meaningful behavioural changes.

Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. said: "Ibelieve that the creative community has a vital role to play in bringing the urgency of climate change to the forefront. This is why we are the first EU country to launch such a creative climate fund. These projects confirm that creative approaches to community engagement, backed up by academic science, have the imagination and impact to demonstrate that a sustainable future is possible."

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Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan T.D. said: "We know that addressing climate change is a transformational cultural challenge. Our culture shapes how we interact with our environment – through our habits of consumption, ideas about nature, what we value as meaningful, and what we think is possible and impossible.

"Our recent Climate Conversations with communities and individuals while preparing the climate action plan have told us that people want to be supported and inspired to make changes. I believe projects like these will help spark imaginations and to make tangible what 'carbon footprints' and 'climate action' really mean for individuals and communities."

14 projects from around the country were selected from 166 applications.

Work on all 14 Creative Climate Action projects will begin immediately and all will be completed by December 2022.