Funding programme

LIFE is the EU’s funding programme dedicated to the environment and climate action.

Read more about LIFE.

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Call overview

This call aims at supporting the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the Union legislation and policy on climate change, contributing to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation.

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Objective

LIFE Climate Change Governance and Information aims at supporting the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the Union legislation and policy on climate change, contributing to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation. This includes improving governance through enhancing the capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society.

Activities for the sole purpose of raising the awareness of certain groups are deemed insufficient to achieve these objectives, and are therefore not encouraged. Projects which set out to develop tools or studies must include specific and concrete action to implement these tools and studies during the duration of the project.

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Areas of intervention

• Support to the operation of the European Climate Pact
• Incentivising behavioural change, mainstream emission reduction and resource and energy efficiency actions
• Awareness-raising activities addressing adaptation and mitigation needs
• Activities linked to the development and implementation of the Sustainable Finance actions
• Greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting
• Implementation/further development of national 2030 climate and energy strategies and/or mid-century strategies
• Development and implementation of greenhouse gas accounting and climate change mitigation in the land use sector
• Assessment of the functioning of the EU ETS
• Building capacity, raising awareness among end-users and the equipment distribution chain of fluorinated greenhouse gases
• Climate policy monitoring, assessment and ex-post evaluation

Read more in the call document, page 25.

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Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

+ be legal entities (public or private bodies)

+ be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:

• EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (participating countries)

+ the coordinator must be established in an eligible country

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Budget

The indicative budget for this topic is EUR 7,900,000. The indicative range of project budgets is EUR 07-2 Million.

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Funding rate

Standard Action Projects (SAPs) — Maximum 60% funding rate.