Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Community funds with €44 million for environmental projects in 2014

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The European Commission opened last Wednesday the nomination period for the submission of proposals for a new Community Fund, which will finance projects related to the climatic actions.

The subprogram-LIFE Climate Action â€" is equipped with €44,26 million to finance the development and implementation of innovative measures to respond to climate change in Europe.

"The new LIFE programme for Climate Action offers new funds from earlier for climatic innovative projects throughout Europe. This will help give life to more sustainable technology and maximising the climate solutions that already exist. These funds will also help to achieve the policy objectives under the climate as well as to comply with the legislation already adopted in this area, "said the European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard.

The subprogram is entered in the EU LIFE Programme 2014-2020, which will provide €864 million for climate action over the next seven years, the European Commission said in a statement.

Interested organisations should submit proposals until October 16, 2014. The second phase of submission of applications runs in the fall and is for non-profit organisations active at European level in climatic and environmental issues.

The LIFE is a program of Community funds was implemented in 1992 and already has co-funded more than 4,000 projects. The EU LIFE Programme for Environment and Climate Action 2014-2020 is divided into two periods: 2014-2017 and 2017-2020. For the first period is available a budget of €449,2 million.

Foto:  Cintia Barenho / Creative Commons

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