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LIFE is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental and nature conservation projects throughout the EU, as well as in some candidate, acceding and neighbouring countries. Since 1992, LIFE has co-financed some 3115 projects, contributing approximately €2 billion to the protection of the environment. Read more >>
01 September 2010The European Commission is launching a broad consultation on biodiversity that aims to gather input from a wide range of stakeholders on possible policy options for the European Union's post-2010 EU biodiversity strategy, which will be assessed by the Commission as part of the process of its development.
23 August 2010 The LIFE Nature Brackish Marsh project held a well-attended symposium at the Zeeland Provincial Hall in Middelburg, Netherlands on 25 June 2010. The event, chaired by Erik Jan van der Meer, attracted managers, conservationists, policymakers and other specialists in the field from South-Holland, Brabant and Belgium, as well as Zeeland.
18 August 2010 The LIFE project MERSADE recently presented its newly developed prototype storage facility for surplus mercury. This innovative solution is one of the principal outputs of the project, which aims to help the EU meet its 2005 strategy for dealing with this poisonous metal.
03 August 2010The French LIFE Environment project ArtWET – has tested prototype artificial wetlands – an potentially important new technology in the struggle to reduce non-point source pesticide pollution across Europe. Contamination caused by pesticides used in agriculture is a cause of concern because of the potential impacts on the environment, wildlife and human health.
28 July 2010 A LIFE Nature project on “Actions for the reintroduction of the Bearded Vulture in Andalusia” has won an award for a documentary film produced to highlight the current situation of the bearded vulture in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. The documentary “La Sierra Incompleta” (The Incomplete Mountain Range) presents the extinction of the bearded vulture from the region in the late 1980s and the local work undertaken to reintroduce the species since then.
26 July 2010 The LIFE Environment CLEANTRUCK project has outlined its aims at the recent Inspirational Day conference in Karlstad, Sweden. Delegates at the event, which informs Swedish organisations about EU-funding opportunities, heard Björn Hugosson from the Environment and Health administration of project beneficiary, the City of Stockholm, explain how CleanTruck plans to reduce the environmental impact of heavy goods transport in the Swedish capital by rolling out a fleet of 80 biofuel-powered delivery trucks.
23 July 2010 The European Commission has approved funding for 210 new projects under the third call for the LIFE+ programme (2007-2013). The projects are from across the EU and cover actions in the fields of nature conservation, environmental policy, and information and communication. Overall, they represent a total investment of €515 million, of which the EU will provide €249.8 million.
14 July 2010 The LIFE+ Nature project Save the Raptors (Conservation of imperial eagle and saker falcon in key Natura 2000 sites in Bulgaria - LIFE07 NAT/BG/000068) has announced the start of its tracking programme of Eastern imperial eagles (Aquila heliaca).
13 July 2010 The conference "LIFE Nature and Biodiversity – preparing the future" took place in Brussels on 31 May and 1 June 2010. For those who were unable to attend or for those who would like to refresh their memories on the different contributions made to this very open debate, speakers presentations are now available
07July 2010 Good news from the LIFE project Lippeaue, situated in North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany: for the first time in 50 years white stork breeding has proved successful in the Lippe plains near Hamm, where a LIFE project was completed recently. An infant storck was born on 11 June 2010. Its parents built their nest on a 'wheel', which the LIFE project set up last year
29 June 2010The conference "LIFE Nature and Biodiversity – preparing the future" took place in Brussels on 31 May and 1 June 2010. It had about 350 participants who discussed in a very open manner the future of LIFE+ - Nature and Biodiversity, both in terms of what can still be done under the current LIFE+ Regulation and of the way in which a future Regulation might be structured.
28 June 2010The Italian Ministry of Environment is featuring a “Project of the Month” on its website to promote the LIFE+ programme. The initiative, which was launched in Rome in March 2010, aims to boost the dissemination of ongoing LIFE+ projects.
09 June 2010The winners of the ‘Best LIFE Nature & Biodiversity Projects 2009-2010’ and the “Best LIFE Environment Projects 2008-2009” received their awards at two special awards ceremonies, held in Brussels to coincide with Green Week 2010.
08 June 2010 The regional office of Valencia has this week been celebrating the success of the Valencian project Zero Plus in receiving an award as one of the best LIFE Environment projects 2009. It was rewarded as one of the five best projects in the ‘waste management’ category along with another project from Spain and projects from Germany, France and Portugal.
28 May 2010 Europe's rarest songbird, the aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) will be better protected following decisions taken at a key meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).
26 May 2010 Some 90% of the EU’s footwear industries are located in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Slovenia, and a new LIFE + project has been launched recently to plug environmental information gaps for footwear businesses in these five Member States. Most European footwear companies are SMEs and have a small workforce, of around 20 employees. Such a business structure can create challenges for the sector when it comes to compliance with environmental requirements
25 May 2010 The first World Biodiversity Day took place last Saturday (May 22). The aim of this day was to raise awareness of the problem of biodiversity loss and show the implications of these losses in our daily lives. As well as supporting an interactive PR campaign involving a website, social media and video clips, the European Commission marked the occasion with a series of family events.
