LIFE Environment policy & governance projects 2008.

Abstract

The European Commission has approved funding for 99 new environmental innovation projects in 19 countries under the LIFE+ programme’s Environment Policy & Governance component for 2008. These projects will demonstrate new methods and techniques for dealing with a wide diversity of Europe’s environmental problems. The projects are led by ‘beneficiaries’, or project promoters, based in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. They represent a total investment of €211 million, of which the EU will provide some €90 million.