This new edition to the LIFE-Focus series explores the contribution the LIFE programme has made to sustainable, competitive and secure energy for Europe. It highlights key EU policy actions and developments in this area and provides information and experiences of innovative ways to meet present...

The launch of the LIFE programme (the EUu0092s Financial Instrument of the Environment1) in 1992 provided the EU with an instrument for financing innovative environmental projects not only within the EU, but also in other neighbouring countries through the LIFE-Third Countries component of the...

The EU Member States represented on the LIFE Committee and the European Commission’s LIFE Unit have announced the Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2006-2007. The results of the selection, as approved by the LIFE Committee in the spring of 2007, are the 22 projects featured in this publication....

EU Member States represented on the LIFE Committee and the European Commission’s LIFE Unit have announced the Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2004-2005. The result of the selection, as approved by the LIFE Committee on 28 July 2005, is the 24 projects featured in this publication.

EU Member States represented on the LIFE Committee and the European Commission’s LIFE Unit have announced the Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2004-2005. The result of the selection, as approved by the LIFE Committee on 28 July 2005, is the 24 projects featured in this publication.

EU Member States represented on the LIFE Committee and the European Commission’s LIFE Unit have announced the Best LIFE Environment Projects 2007-2008. The results of the selection, as approved by the LIFE Committee members in the spring of 2008, are 21 projects that represent the most recent...

The EU strategy for waste management, adopted in 1989 and reviewed in 19961, refers to prevention, re-use and recovery, optimisation of final disposal, and regulation of transport as strategic guidelines for the management of waste in Europe. The document specifies that waste management should...

EU policy provides an important opportunity to improve environmental management in the farming sector and the European Commission’s LIFE (Financial Instrument for the Environment) programme supports these efforts by co-funding demonstration projects that deliver real benefits for European...

This brochure provides examples of integrated management plans for Natura 2000 sites co-financed by LIFE Nature. It includes also a brief illustration of the process of integration of measures adopted by EU Member States themselves to guarantee the conservation of endangered habitats and species...