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Sustainable textiles, industrial parks, green energy transition, plastics, raw materials, food systems, and urban planning all drive the need for a circular economy. Three LIFE projects demonstrated solutions at the World Circular Economy Forum 2024.

The LIFE 2024 Calls on Operating Grants invite non-profit organisations active in the fields of environment, climate action and clean energy transition to submit their proposals.

When Spain’s River Ebro floods, it causes massive damage to agriculture, livestock, infrastructure, and towns in its wake. Climate change is only making extreme flooding more prevalent. A LIFE project is slowing the river’s flow.

This Synergy Info Pack highlights how 13 CINEA-managed projects coming from different countries, sectors and funding programmes are all working towards the same goal: making Europe’s waterborne transport sector more sustainable and more competitive.

LIFE projects took centre stage at the recent LIFE Platform Meeting on Soils, with presentations by three LIFE projects and field visits to two others.

One of our most endangered species, the Parnassus Apollo butterfly, has seen a fifty percent decline in 25 years. LIFE Apollo2020 offers hope, aiming to reverse this trend and secure the future of these vital pollinators.

“Planet vs Plastics” is this year’s Earth Day theme, and a call to reduce our global plastic consumption by 60% by 2040. Two LIFE projects are demonstrating innovative methods of recycling and reusing Europe’s plastic waste.

We’re excited to announce the LIFE Calls for Proposals 2024 - and we want to hear your ideas for conserving nature, protecting the environment, taking climate action and transitioning Europe to clean energy.

News about climate change is overwhelming and it’s often hard to know where or how to act, even for those working on climate action projects. A LIFE project integrated education and training across France for those managing natural sites.