LIFE ProgrammeLIFE Project Grants

Climate Governance and Information

Deadline22 September 2026
Total budget€4M
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

LIFE Climate Change Governance and Information aims at supporting the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the Union legislation and policy on climate change, contributing to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation. This includes improving governance through enhancing the capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society.

Scope

Areas of Intervention:

  • Raising awareness, incentivising behavioural change and supporting the activities of the European Climate Pact;
  • Green skills & capacity building to implement climate mitigation and adaptation policies;
  • Building capacity, raising awareness among end-users and the equipment distribution chain of fluorinated greenhouse gases;
  • Support to the development, update and implementation of national, regional or local climate and energy strategies and plans;
  • Activities linked to the implementation of Sustainable Finance actions;
  • Greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting;
  • Development of geographically-explicit inventories for the LULUCF sector, creation of carbon removal registries and certification schemes and organisation of capacity building activities and advisory services;
  • Knowledge sharing and capacity building on the EU Emissions Trading System;
  • Climate policy monitoring, assessment and ex-post evaluation.
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