LIFE – LIFE Climate Action – Standard Action Projects (SAP) – 2025

Objectives

• To catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policy-related solutions for implementing EU climate action legislation and policy
• To contribute to the objectives and targets in the European Climate Law and the Union’s intermediate target of at least 55% net greenhouse gas emission reduction by 2030 compared to 1990 levels
• To ensure continuous progress in enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability to climate change, in line with the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change
• To support the development, implementation, monitoring, and enforcement of EU climate change legislation and policy contributing to mitigation and/or adaptation, notably by improving governance through capacity building for public and private actors and civil society involvement

Priorities

• LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCM
  • Recovery, recycling and reclamation of ozone-depleting substances in foams and suitability of alternatives to fluorinated greenhouse gases
  • To support the shift to zero-emission mobility in road transport
  • To decarbonise other transport modes, fostering intermodality and modal shift
  • To increase the generation and use of renewable energy and improvement of energy efficiency
  • To reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in industrial production and waste management
  • To develop and implement land and coastal management practices
  • To develop industrial solutions for carbon removal, carbon capture and use and/or storage

• LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCA
  • To support the development of climate adaptation policies and the revision of national, regional or local climate adaptation strategies and plans
  • To implement the state-of-the art tools for climate risk assessment or selection of cost-effective adaptation measures for dealing with climate threats and solutions for adaptation
  • To develop and implement nature-based solutions for different types of areas (rural, urban and coastal)
  • To adaptat solutions for agriculture and forestry, water management, climate adaptation and health

• LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-GOV
  • To raise awareness, incentivising behavioural change and supporting the activities of the European Climate Pact
  • To implement climate mitigation and adaptation policies
  • To build capacity, raising awareness among end-users and the equipment distribution chain of fluorinated greenhouse gases
  • To develop geographically-explicit inventories for the LULUCF sector, creation of carbon removal registries and certification schemes and organisation of capacity building activities and advisory services

Among financed actions

• Actions that develop, demonstrate, and promote innovative techniques/methods/approaches,
• Actions that contribute to the knowledge base/best practices
• Actions that support EU legislation/policy, and catalyse large-scale deployment of successful solutions

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme (Click here)
• The coordinator must be established in an eligible country
• A consortium is not required. An application can be submitted by a single entity established in an eligible country

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between  24 and 120 months
• Contact: CINEA-LIFE-ENQUIRIES@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 61.500.000 euros
• Budget per topic:
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCM: 28.000.000 euros
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCA: 28.000.000 euros
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-GOV: 5.500.000 euros
• Amount of the grant:
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCM: between 1.000.000 and 5.000.000 euros
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCA: between 1.000.000 and 5.000.000 euros
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-GOV: between 700.000 and 2.000.000 euros
• Funding rate: up to 60% of the total eligible costs