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LIFE Country Overview Germany 2018 Germany Overview This document provides an overview of LIFE in Germany. It showcases key data and some of the latest LIFE projects. You will also find contact details and other useful resources and a full list of current and recently-finished LIFE projects. Every year calls for project proposals are launched covering the LIFE programme’s priority areas. ABOUT LIFE The LIFE programme is the EU's funding instrument for the environment and climate action. It has been running since 1992 and has co-financed more than 4 500 projects across the EU and in third countries, mobilising over €9 billion and contributing more than €4 billion to the protection of the environment and climate. The budget for the LIFE programme for 2014–2020 is set at €3.4 billion in current prices, with a sub-programme for environment and a sub-programme for climate action. Types of LIFE project: Other types of LIFE funding: Traditional (Environment and Resource Efficiency; Nature NGO operating grants and Biodiversity; Environmental Governance and Natural Capital Financing Facility (NCFF) Information; Climate Change Mitigation; Climate Change Private Finance for Energy Efficiency (PF4EE) Adaptation; Climate Governance and Information). Integrated (Environment, Nature or Climate Action) NCFF and PF4EE are joint initiatives with the European Preparatory Investment Bank, which manages the two funds. Capacity-building For more information visit: http://ec.europa.eu/life Last update: 4/06/18 European Commission/EASME (http://ec.europa.eu/life/) – Page 1 – LIFE Environment and Resource Efficiency This LIFE priority area is aimed at developing, testing and demonstrating best practices, solutions and integrated approaches to environmental challenges, as well as improving the related knowledge base. To date, the LIFE Environment and Resource Efficiency strand (formerly the LIFE Environment Policy and Governance component) has co-financed 198 projects in Germany, representing a total investment of €510 million, of which €150 million has been provided by the EU. Completed projects focused mainly on the areas of clean technologies and wastewater treatment. Other popular themes included water supply and quality, site rehabilitation, reducing emissions and air pollution, eco-product design (ecological certification of products from sustainable marine aquaculture), the protection of nature and biodiversity in urban areas, forest management, agricultural waste, the treatment of hazardous substances (by facilitating the substitution of chemical substances); air pollution in the chemical industry; risk management (pollution control in groundwater); sludge treatment; groundwater protection; municipal waste; integrated waste management and energy supply. One project developed an integrated concept for the conservation of semi- natural grassland in Natura 2000 reserves in accordance with EU directives on habitats and species. Most projects were implemented by SMEs and international enterprises, followed by local and regional authorities and research institutions, and had durations of 24 to 69 months. There are six ongoing projects in Germany covering a variety of themes, including river basin management, water scarcity and water resource protection, wastewater treatment, energy efficiency, waste reduction and eco- products. The projects are being coordinated by a SME, public enterprises, two large enterprises and an international company. The duration foreseen is between 36 and 120 months. The project presented in the box below is an example of a successful LIFE Environment project in Germany. CLEAN AIR (CA) LIFE11 ENV/DE/000495 The CA project tackled the problem of continuing violations of air pollution limits by strengthening environmental governance and increasing access to justice, which helps to improve compliance with EU legislation. It empowered and motivated EU citizens and NGOs to campaign for effective air quality measures. The beneficiary organised ten workshops for NGOs during the project period. Those workshops imparted the knowledge necessary to enable organisations and affected citizens to sue institutions for the right to clean air. In Berlin, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, London, Bratislava and Lisbon, experts taught participants how to act in the most effective way during a lawsuit. The beneficiary managed to transfer the knowledge and experience, on supporting plaintiffs in lawsuits against non-compliance towards air quality targets, to NGOs across the EU. Thus, those NGOs are able to carry this knowledge further now. In total, nine European environmental NGOs joined forces under the framework of the project to tackle areas of urban air pollution, including private and public transport, inland and maritime ships, and construction machinery. Pilot actions were implemented, best practice models presented, and Low Emission Zones extended. The consortium also lobbied for stricter air pollution limits at EU level. Significantly, many of these initiatives are continuing after-LIFE. The most challenging aspect of the project was the cooperation with local authorities, some of whom proved less active in contributing than was expected. The project was innovative with regards to raising awareness of the issue of clean air in ports (sea and inland) among all stakeholders. An important deliverable was its manual "Clean Air in Ports", which was distributed to ports, ship owners, local authorities and major port cities, during events and by email. Elsewhere in Europe, among participating authorities, the city of Budapest agreed investments for 2016 to continue the renewal of the public buses by retrofitting and replacing them with greener alternatives, including 25 electric buses. CA - Clean Air’s demonstration value and socio-economic impacts were important, as the project addresses all aspects of transportation and air quality. The CA project actions have helped to implement the provisions of the Air Quality Directive and proposed revisions, as well as the Non Road Mobile Machinery Directive, and the Thematic Strategy on air pollution. For further information: http://www.cleanair-europe.org Last update: 4/06/18 European Commission/EASME (http://ec.europa.eu/life/) – Page 2 – LIFE Nature and Biodiversity This LIFE priority area is aimed at developing, testing and demonstrating best practices, solutions and integrated approaches to contribute to the development and implementation of nature and biodiversity policy and legislation, as well as improving the related knowledge base. To date, the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity component has co-financed 134 projects in Germany. These represent a total investment of €356 million, of which €200 million was contributed by the EU. More than half of the completed projects targeted habitats such as wetlands, bogs, river landscapes, floodplains, pastures and forests (mainly in mountainous areas or alluvial forests), and dry grasslands (both mountainous and coastal). The species targeted were the freshwater mussel, the allis shad, the green club-tailed dragonfly, the fire-bellied toad, the common spadefoot toad, the great bustard, black-tailed godwits, the aquatic warbler, other wild birds, and bats. The beneficiaries were mostly regional authorities, NGOs and local authorities. The projects' durations ranged from 36 to 88 months. There are 35 ongoing projects. The majority are focused on improving and restoring habitats such as grasslands, rivers and watercourses, floodplains, bogs and mires, alluvial forests, bog woodlands, wetlands, oak woods, and sloping and transition mires. The species targeted include the corncrake, the marsh fritillary, the greater horseshoe bat, the violet copper, the black-tailed godwit, grassland meadow birds, the aquatic warbler and the lesser spotted eagle. One project aims to re-establish a lynx population in the Palatinate Forest. The projects’ average durations range from 48 to 90 months. The beneficiaries are mostly regional authorities, NGOs/foundations and park authorities. Presented in the box below is an example of a successful LIFE Nature project in Germany. Species conservation project Common Spadefoot (Pelobates fuscus) in parts of the Münsterland (North Rhine-Westphalia) (Schutz der Knoblauchkröte) LIFE11 NAT/DE/000348 The Schutz der Knoblauchkröte project met its main and secondary objectives and in many cases was able to surpass its goals. Through implementation of habitat management and restoration actions, it has contributed to a stabilisation of the population of common spadefoot toad in the project region. This was achieved through habitat improvement and direct species conservation actions in the five project areas, which represented its last known sites in the region. The breeding of the spadefoot toad surpassed original targets - with more than 50 000 individual toads reared. Through networking activities and increased targets at the project sites, more toads than originally foreseen could be released. The conservation status assessment of the sites shows a very good recovery: monitoring confirmed that populations have stabilised and that numbers of calling and migrating individuals are rising. The most important contribution of the project was the securing of areas and management measures in the project areas. However, isolation of sites and fragmentation is difficult to overcome and therefore showed that careful After-LIFE management would be necessary. The continuation of the project actions are outlined in its After-LIFE Conservation Plan, which was produced at the end of the
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