The European Commission has launched an online consultation to seek input on the future content and implementation of the LIFE programme (2021-2027). Market uptake activities currently funded under the Energy Challenge of Horizon 2020 will continue under LIFE, in a Clean Energy Transition sub-programme.

The online consultation is open until 27 April 2020.

LIFE will be the only EU funding programme dedicated exclusively to environment, climate and energy. During the next programming period (2021-2027) LIFE will help Europe deliver on those priorities, by contributing to:

• The shift towards a circular, energy-efficient, renewable energy-based, climate-neutral and resilient economy
• The protection and improvement of the quality of the environment
• Halting and reversing biodiversity loss and tackling the degradation of ecosystems

For further background information see also the Proposal for a Regulation establishing a Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE), in which the main objectives and conditions of the future LIFE Programme were provisionally set out.

Check here for more information on the future of funding for energy efficiency projects after 2020.