Deadline: 6 October 2020
LIFE Climate Action Program with an aim to contribute to the development and demonstration of innovative climate change mitigation technologies, systems, methods and instruments that are suitable for being replicated, transferred or mainstreamed.
Objectives
The LIFE Regulation states that to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions the priority area of Climate Change Mitigation has in particular the following specific objectives:
- to contribute to the implementation and development of Union policy and legislation on climate change mitigation, including mainstreaming across policy areas, in particular by developing, testing and demonstrating policy or management approaches, best practices and solutions for climate change mitigation;
- to improve the knowledge base for the development, assessment, monitoring, evaluation and implementation of effective climate change mitigation actions and measures and to enhance the capacity to apply that knowledge in practice;
- to facilitate the development and implementation of integrated approaches, such as for climate change mitigation strategies and action plans, at local, regional or national level.
EU Climate Policy Objectives
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, expected to be increased to at least 50% and towards 55% compared with 1990 levels.
Union climate policy and legislation aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions focuses in particular on:
- renewable energy,
- energy efficiency,
- the emissions trading system,
- energy and greenhouse gas intensive industrial production,
- land use, agriculture and forestry,
- conservation and enhancement of natural carbon sinks,
- transport and fuels,
- fluorinated gases and ozone depleting substances,
- carbon capture and use,
- carbon capture and storage,
- efforts by all sectors of society and economy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (public bodies or private commercial or non-
- commercial organisations such as national, regional and local authorities, businesses, unions, civil society organisations,
- educational institutions, consumer groups),
- behavioural change, and
- greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting.
EU Policy Areas
- Member States’ and regional/ local authorities’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the sectors not covered in the EU Emissions Trading System but covered by the Effort Sharing Decision (EU) 406/2009 and subsequent legislation: transport and fuels, agriculture, construction (e.g. energy efficiency in buildings), land use, land-use change and forestry;
- The development and implementation of greenhouse gas accounting and climate change mitigation in the land use sector;
- The development of land management practices which have an impact on emissions and removals of emissions;
- Actions which enhance the functioning of the emissions trading system and which have an impact on energy and greenhouse gas intensive industrial production;
- Fluorinated gases and ozone – depleting substances;
- Greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting by authorities.
Eligibility Criteria
Any entity registered in the EU can make a proposal for LIFE traditional, integrated, preparatory, and technical assistance projects under the sub-programmes for climate action.
You could be a:
- public body operating under a national government’s authority, e.g. local authority, national administration etc.
- private commercial organisation
- private non-commercial organisation (NGOs etc.)
For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/section/life/2020-life-call-proposals-traditional-projects-climate-action