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EC approves investment package for environment and climate projects – Abroad – News

In another project, Italian chefs will promote a climate-friendly, nutritious and affordable diet that reduces food waste through awareness-raising, communication and education campaigns for consumers, workers and others. This project will contribute, inter alia, to the Field to Table Strategy, the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Waste Framework Directive.

In turn, the Bulgarian project team will protect nesting, wintering and migratory bird populations by reducing bird mortality from electricity infrastructure. It will identify the most risky medium voltage power lines and replace the overhead power lines with underground cables at the most important stages. This project contributes to the implementation of the EU Birds Directive on the ground.

The Polish project will show how renewable energy can be used to cool public buildings, and the French project will set up an innovative system to optimize the use of resources and recover resources from waste from local construction and public works. Both projects support the EU’s Wave of Renovation initiative, launched last October.

The EC stated that 39 Life nature and biodiversity projects will help implement the EU Birds and Habitats Directives, as well as the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Their total budget is € 249 million, of which € 134 million will be covered by the EU.

In turn, € 162 million will be mobilized for 45 Life environment and resource efficiency projects, of which € 78 million will be provided by the EU. EUR 55 million will be invested in ten waste reduction projects, thus contributing to the implementation of the EU Circular Economy Action Plan. Another € 50 million will be allocated to 16 water quality projects.

Eight Life environmental management and information projects will raise awareness of environmental issues such as biodiversity loss and air pollution. They will also provide public authorities with tools to promote, monitor and enforce compliance with EU environmental law. They have a total budget of more than € 19 million, of which almost € 11 million will be covered by the EU.

Around € 66 million will be available for 17 Life climate change mitigation projects, of which around € 35 million will be provided by the EU. Examples are projects that promote climate-neutral agriculture and improve heat recovery in the iron and steel industry.

17 Life climate adaptation projects will mobilize € 52 million. Of this, almost 29 million euros will be “Life” funds. These projects include actions such as adapting forests to extreme weather events and strengthening the climate adaptation capacity of European healthcare infrastructure.

Six Life Climate Management and Information Projects will improve climate management and inform the public and stakeholders about climate change. Their total budget is € 13 million, of which more than € 7 million will be provided by the EU.

The Life program is the EU’s instrument for financing environment and climate action. It has been in operation since 1992 and has co-financed more than 5,500 projects across the EU and outside the EU. The funding for the Life program for the period 2021 to 2027 is € 5.4 billion.

The Life program has four new sub-programs: Nature and Biodiversity, the circular economy and quality of life, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the transition to clean energy. EC-approved projects and four sub-programs will start receiving funding from 2022.

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