Climate Governance and Information

Topic description

Expected Outcome: Efficient delivery of the quantified objectives by the end of the project. Objective: 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. Scope: 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.

Conditions and documents

Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document . Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in section 6 of the call document . 3. Other eligibility conditions described in section 6 of the call document . 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in section 7 of the call document . 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual . 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document . 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in section 4 of the call document . 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in section 10 of the call document . Call document and annexes: Call document Standard application form — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Mandatory Annexes to the application form: Detailed budget table (LIFE) Participant information (LIFE) Optional Annexes: Letters of support Maps (LIFE) Description of sites (LIFE) Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc. Additional documents: FAQs in LIFE website LIFE Reference Documents LIFE General MGA v1.0 Annotated Grant Agreement LIFE Regulation 2021/783 LIFE Multiannual Work Programme 2025-2027 EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

Budget overview

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