Details
- Identification
- PDF: KH-AJ-18-003-EN-N, ISBN: 978-92-79-98410-5, ISSN: 2314-9329, DOI: 10.2779/97902
- Publication date
- 1 January 2018
- Author
- European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Description
LIFE is a comparatively small EU financing programme. It accounts for less than 1% of the EU budget for 2014-2020. Yet LIFE makes a big difference to EU nature.
It has supported more than 1 700 nature and biodiversity projects since 1992. The €2 billion invested in these projects has done much to implement EU biodiversity policy, in particular the nature directives (the Birds Directive and Habitats Directive).
The programme has also had a crucial part to play in bringing the Natura 2000 network of protected areas into being. Of the 27 500 individual Natura 2000 sites, more than 5 300 have at least once been targeted by LIFE project actions.
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LIFE improves nature