The climate sub-programme supports projects in the areas of farming, land use, peatland management, renewable energies and energy efficiency. It co-finances projects in the areas of urban adaptation and land-use planning, the resilience of infrastructure, sustainable management of water in drought-prone areas, flood and coastal management, the resilience of the agricultural, forestry and tourism sectors, and/or support to the EU's outermost regions.
Projects are co-financed under the LIFE Clean Energy Transition sub-programme in the following five areas of intervention:
Building a national, regional and local policy framework supporting the clean energy transition;
Accelerating technology roll-out, digitalisation, new services and business models and enhancement of the related professional skills on the market;
Attracting private finance for sustainable energy;
Supporting the development of local and regional investment projects;
The LIFE programme is divided into two strands: one for the environment and another for climate action.
The climate action strand also has two sub-programmes:
Climate change mitigation and adaptation
Clean energy transition
Projects are financed under these categories:
- Standard Action Projects (SAPs), traditional LIFE projects focused on best practices, demonstration, capacity building, deployment, mobilizing investment, and implementation of relevant EU policy.
Missions will operate through a portfolio of actions – such as research projects, policy measures or even legislative initiatives - to achieve a measurable goal that could not be achieved through individual actions. The missions will contribute to the goals of the European Green Deal, Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.
Areas where there will be missions
This cluster aims at reducing environmental degradation, halting and reversing the decline of biodiversity on land, inland waters and sea and better
managing natural resources through transformative changes of the economy and society in both urban and rural areas.
Areas of intervention
This cluster aims to fight climate change by better understanding its causes, evolution, risks, impacts and opportunities, and by making the energy and transport sectors are more climate and environment-friendly, more efficient and competitive, smarter, safer and more resilient.
Areas of intervention
The Innovation Fund is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. The goal is to help businesses invest in clean energy and industry to boost economic growth, create local and future-proof jobs, and reinforce European technological leadership on a global scale.
This is done through calls for large (>EUR 7.5m) and small-scale projects focusing on:
innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy-intensive industries, including products substituting carbon-intensive ones
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation.
It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth. Under it Pillar II, Horizon Europe is divided in 6 clusters:
