LIFE ProgrammeLIFE Project Grants

Climate Change Mitigation

Deadline22 September 2026
Total budget€28M
Opens21 April 2026
Deadline modelsingle-stage
Call IDLIFE-2026-SAP-CLIMA

What this call funds

Expected Outcome

Efficient delivery of the quantified objectives by the end of the project.

Objective

Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area will support the implementation of the European Green Deal by contributing to the objectives and targets set out in the EU Climate Law and to the intermediate Union climate target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% compared to 1990 levels by 2030.

Scope

Areas of intervention:

  • Recovery, recycle and reclamation of ozone-depleting substances in foams and suitability of alternatives to fluorinated greenhouse gases and their recovery, reclamation and recycling;
  • Actions to support the shift to zero-emission mobility in road transport;
  • Decarbonising other transport modes, fostering intermodality and modal shift;
  • Increase the generation and use of renewable energy and improvement of energy efficiency;
  • Actions which reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in industrial production and waste management;
  • Development and implementation of land and coastal management practices which have an impact on emissions and carbon removals, including the conservation and enhancement of natural carbon sinks in soils and forests and the storage of carbon in long-lasting products;
  • Industrial solutions for carbon removal, carbon capture and use and/or storage.
Eligibility & conditions+

Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

described in section 5 of the call document.

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible countries

described in section 6 of the call document.

3. Other eligibility conditions

described in section 6 of the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

described in section 7 of the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

described in section 9 of the call document.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

described in section 4 of the call document.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

described in section 10 of the call document.

Call document and annexes:

Call document

Standard application form — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System

Mandatory Annexes to the application form:

  • Detailed budget table (LIFE)
  • Participant information (LIFE)

Optional Annexes:

  • Letters of support
  • Maps (LIFE)
  • Description of sites (LIFE)
  • Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.

Additional documents:

FAQs in LIFE website

LIFE Reference Documents

LIFE General MGA v1.0

Annotated Grant Agreement

LIFE Regulation 2021/783

LIFE Multiannual Work Programme 2025-2027

EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509

Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment

Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual

Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions

Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal · synced 2026-06-30