Climate Governance and Information

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

LIFE: Environment & Climate Action

Programme Description

The LIFE Programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. After 22 years, €3.4 billion and 4.170 projects, the LIFE Programme continues to finance actions for the environment and climate action.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-GOV

Call

Climate Governance and Information

Summary

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.

Detailed Call Description

Areas of Intervention:

  • Raising awareness, incentivising behavioural change and supporting the activities of the European Climate Pact;
  • Green skills & capacity building to implement climate mitigation and adaptation policies;
  • Building capacity, raising awareness among end-users and the equipment distribution chain of fluorinated greenhouse gases;
  • Support to the development, update and implementation of national, regional or local climate and energy strategies and plans;
  • Activities linked to the implementation of Sustainable Finance actions;
  • Greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting;
  • Development of geographically-explicit inventories for the LULUCF sector, creation of carbon removal registries and certification schemes and organisation of capacity building activities and advisory services;
  • Knowledge sharing and capacity building on the EU Emissions Trading System;
  • Climate policy monitoring, assessment and ex-post evaluation.

Call Total Budget

€4.980.000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

60%

Cost categories: costs for financial support to third parties: allowed for grants and prizes; maximum total amount for financial support to third parties €100.000; maximum amount per third party €20.000.

Thematic Categories

  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Public Administration

Eligibility for Participation

  • Central Government
  • Legal Entities
  • Local Authorities
  • NGOs
  • Non Profit Organisations
  • Private Bodies
  • Semi-governmental organisations
  • State-owned Enterprises

Eligibility For Participation Notes

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:
      • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association  agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
  • the coordinator must be established in an eligible country

Call Opening Date

18/04/2024

Call Closing Date

17/09/2024

National Contact Point(s)

Department of Environment

Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment
www.lifecyclamen.com.cy

Persons to Contact 
Marilena Papastavrou
Environment Officer, National Contact Point for Environment
Telephone: +357 22 408 926
Email: mpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy

Chrystalla Papastavrou
Environment Officer, National Contact Point for Climate
Telephone: +357 22 408 962
Email: cpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy