Here you will find a series of inspiring environmental success stories - from protecting and restoring nature, to reducing waste and pollution, and acting on the climate crisis.
With the help of EU funding, these projects are helping to implement the European Green Deal on the ground. They contribute to the shift towards a circular, energy efficient, climate-neutral Europe and help protect and improve the quality of the environment.
The European Union funds projects that protect and restore the environment, across Europe and beyond. The LIFE programme, for example, is the EU's funding instrument entirely dedicated to environmental, climate and energy objectives. It has already written thousands of success stories since 1992.
Discover a variety of these successful projects below.
The LIFE Environment Award recognises innovative projects that contribute to the protection and restoration of the environment. At the ceremony, Mihhail Kõlvart, Mayor of Tallinn - European Green Capital 2023 - presented LIFE Plants for Plants as the winning LIFE project in the Environment category.
The LIFE Plants for Plants project aimed to introduce new organic biostimulants into conventional agriculture. The goal was to prove that biostimulants can reduce irrigation and chemical use to boost crop production.
At a Hidria factory – one of Slovenia’s largest automotive corporations – LIFE HIDAQUA is recycling industrial wastewater.
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The Dutch Dune Revival project restored nearly 190 hectares of white dune, grey dune and dune slack habitats.
Restoring and managing peatlands improves water retention and quality, stores carbon, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and increases biodiversity. Since 1992 LIFE has been working hard on this.
Sustainable climate adaptation solutions can help protect cities against the devastating effects of climate change. Rotterdam is leading the way through the LIFE URBAN-ADAPT project.
The LIFE Olivares Vivos project developed an innovative model of olive growing that can be used elsewhere in Europe.
The team behind Rivers of LIFE are improving water courses in Voxnan, Gimån and Ljusnan in the counties of Gävleborg and Jämtland.
In Ireland, the project BurrenLIFE developed a new model for the sustainable agricultural management of the priority habitats of the Burren.
LIFE TECMINE set out to improve the restoration of open pit mines in Mediterranean forest areas by combining different techniques.
LIFE to alvars restored 2 500 hectares of alvar grassland in Estonia, involving local farmers in the process.
Several LIFE projects have helped restore Europe’s threatened mussel populations.