Brussels, 02/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission announced on Monday 1 June that €57 million is available to co-finance climate change projects in EU member states under the LIFE programme on climate action.
On the same day, it launched a call for tender for companies wishing to apply for co-financing for a project in any of the following four categories:
- projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These will focus this year on high-carbon industries and their efforts to find alternatives to fluoride gases that strongly contribute to global warming and alternatives to substances that damage the ozone layer;
- projects to encourage adapting to the inevitable consequences of climate change in vulnerable areas highlighted in the EU's adaptation strategy or which encourage green infrastructure, ecosystem-based approaches or adaptation in the urban environment;
- projects to improve 'climate governance and information' by developing capabilities in this domain;
- preparatory projects to draw up a network for quantifying the effect of climate change on arable land and land management. (Aminata Niang)