LIFE and climate change adaptation

In his first State of the Union address, President Juncker highlighted the need for the European Union to push for an “ambitious, robust and binding” climate deal at the global COP21 summit in Paris this December (see box - “The road to Paris”). “My Commission will work to ensure Europe keeps leading in the fight against climate change,” he said. The European Union is devoting at least 20% of its budget from 2014-2020 to climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. EU policy on climate change mitigation and the work of the LIFE programme in its implementation has already been addressed in another brochure from 2015. This new report on the other hand is now focusing on LIFE and its impact on climate change adaptation.