Funding programme

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

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Call overview

This call aims to help to contribute to the socially just and sustainable transition towards a climate neutral economy by 2050.

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Objective

Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area should contribute to the socially just and sustainable transition towards a climate neutral economy by 2050 and to reaching the EU emission reduction target for 2030 to at least 55% compared with 1990 levels.

Union climate policy and legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions focuses in particular on:

• efforts by all sectors of society and economy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including public bodies (national, regional and local authorities);
• private commercial entities; or non-commercial organisations (unions, civil society organisations, educational institutions, consumer groups)
• sustainable renewable energy,
• energy efficiency,
• the EU Emissions Trading System,
• energy and greenhouse gas intensive industrial production,
• land use, agriculture and forestry,
• increase of carbon sequestration in ecosystems,
• zero and near-zero emission transport solutions and fuel/energy options,
• fluorinated greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances,
• carbon capture and use, carbon capture and storage, and carbon removals
• greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting

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Scope

Areas of intervention:

• Recovery, recycle and reclamation of ozone-depleting substances in foams and suitability of alternatives to fluorinated greenhouse gases and their recovery, reclamation and recycling;
• Actions to support the shift to zero-emission mobility in road transport;
• Decarbonising non-road transport modes, fostering intermodality and modal shift;
• Increase the generation and use of renewable energy and improvement of energy efficiency (as far as not covered by specific calls for proposals under the Clean Energy Transition sub-programme);
• Actions which reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in industrial production and waste management;
• Development and implementation of land and coastal management practices which have an impact on emissions and carbon removals, including the conservation and enhancement of natural carbon sinks in soils and forests and the storage of carbon in long-lasting products.
• Development and implementation of industrial solutions for carbon removal, carbon capture and use and/or storage.

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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 (list of participating countries)

- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.

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Duration

The typical duration of the project is 2 to 5 years. Maximum project duration: 10 years.

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Budget

The total indicative budget is EUR 28 500 000.

Maximum 60% funding rate.