Deadline: 21-Sep-23
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants to support Climate Governance and Information Project under the Programme for Environment and Climate Action (LIFE).
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.
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
Funding Information
- The indicative available call budget is EUR 66,350,000.
- Topic Budget: EUR 6,350,000
Type of Action
- develop, demonstrate and promote innovative techniques, methods and approaches
- contribute to the knowledge base and to the application of best practice
- support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the EU legislation and policy, including by improving governance at all levels, in particular through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society
- catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policy related solutions for implementing the EU legislation and policy by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which it is submitted.
- 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:
- EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme or countries
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
- Specific Cases
- Exceptional funding — Entities from other countries (not listed above) are exceptionally eligible, if the granting authority considers their participation essential for the implementation of the action.
- Natural persons — Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of selfemployed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
- International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
- Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
- EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
For more information, visit European Commission (EC).