LIFE and climate change mitigation

LIFE has been one of the main sources of funding for demonstration projects that have explored ways to facilitate the implementation and enforcement of EU climate mitigation policy and legislation throughout the Union.

Although the LIFE programme began in 1992, it took some years for the impact of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992) and the Kyoto Protocol (1997) to feed through into specific projects on climate change mitigation. The first wave of notable projects in this area was funded in 1999, in anticipation of the adoption of the first European Climate Change Programme (ECCP) in 2000. A second major wave came with the LIFE+ programme (2007-2013), which identified climate change as a funding priority.

The LIFE and Climate change mitigation brochure gives an overview of EU climate policy and provides a host of best practice examples from 242 featured projects from across the European Union. Climate changE-R is one of the projects reviewed in the brochure.

More information on LIFE is available at http://ec.europa.eu/life.