LIFE is the European Commission’s financial instrument for promoting, actualisation, developing and implementing the EU’s environmental and climate policy by co-funding environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects throughout the EU. 

The new multi-annual work programme identifies priority areas for Environment and Climate Action sub-programmes of the LIFE Programme for the next funding period, 2014–2020. The LIFE Programme supports projects in the fields of environment and resource efficiency, nature and biodiversity, and climate action.

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LIFE Programme has two sub-programmes:

1. Environment sub-programme with project funding of 1.3 billion EUR for the period of 2014–2017 covers the following priority areas:

  • environment and resource efficiency
  • nature and biodiversity
  • environmental governance and information

2. Climate Action sub-programme with project funding of 449 million EUR for the period of 2014–2017 covers the following priority areas:

  • climate change mitigation
  • climate change adaptation
  • climate governance and information

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