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5 December marks the UN #WorldSoilDay, and LIFE ENPLC celebrates its success in uniting private landowners and conservationists with the shared goal of protecting Europe’s precious soils. 

Commission earmarks €4.6 billion to boost net-zero technologies, electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing and renewable hydrogen under the Innovation Fund

In Europe, less than 30% of the 32.3 million tonnes of plastic waste generated each year is recycled. A LIFE networking meeting set out progress, issues, and solutions for Europe’s plastic industry.

The projects, spanning from fishery communities to ports and islands, have just signed their contracts to receive technical assistance and feasibility studies from top-notch experts in their field under Horizon Europe.

Projects FLORA, MSP-OR, C-FAARER and A-AAGORA were granted an Atlantic Project Award each at the 11th Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conference in Bordeaux on 22 November 2024.

Light pollution is a major but underappreciated threat to many animals. The LIFE Natura@night project is trying to mitigate this threat to help seabirds on the islands of Macronesia.

In the run-up to the upcoming European Water Resilience Strategy and the ongoing #WaterWiseEU campaign, we celebrate some of the many 2024 highlights — and the positive contribution that LIFE projects have made to the campaign’s success.

€ 2.6 million of EU funding are available to improve the scientific knowledge for the EU fisheries policy.

Two new EU projects, funded under EMFAF and Horizon Europe (Cluster 3), will enhance knowledge, capability and capacity to mitigate the threats from dumped munitions to Europe’s seas.