ρϋoverall purpose of this case study is to gain an understanding of the enabling factors and barriers that influenced contribution of the LIFE Programme 2014-2020 to environmental improvement. The case study covers five projects that demonstrate the LIFE programme’s contribution to improving the quality of water, air, and soil, and reducing noise, including projects that demonstrate integrated approaches to implementation of Air Quality Plans and Programmes and/or implementation of River Basin Management Plans (RBMP). To conduct this case study the team thoroughly reviewed the existing secondary data and available sources of evidence for each project, including but not limited to the European Commission’s public database website, e-Proposal, projects’ layman reports (and full reports where necessary), leaflets, factsheets, brochures, and after LIFE plans. A table of literature sources can be found in Annex I. To supplement this research, an interview was arranged with a representative from each of the projects. However, due to severe flooding in Northern Italy in May 2023, two of the project representatives (SOS4LIFE and LIFE PREPAIR) were not able to provide their responses as they had more urgent demands on their time related to the flooding mitigation (see Annex II for a table on the consulted stakeholders).
Authors
Bio Innovation Service, Centre for European Policy Studies, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission, Institut National de l'Environment, RPA Europe Srl, RWI Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforfchung, Sofies SA, VVA
Related Organizations
- Catalogue number
- KH-01-24-002-EN-N
- Citation
- European Commission: Directorate-General for Environment, Contribution of LIFE to environmental improvement Support to the ex-post evaluation of LIFE 2014-2020 , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2779/3160598
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2779/3160598
- ISBN
- 978-92-68-20429-0
- Pages
- 45
- Published in
- Belgium
- Themes
- Environment — Ecology
Table of Contents
- Contribution of LIFE to 1
- Contribution of LIFE to 3
- 1.1 Conclusions ........................................................................................... 8 5
- 1.2 Relevance .............................................................................................. 9 5
- 1.3 Effectiveness ......................................................................................... 9 5
- 1.4 Efficiency ............................................................................................. 10 5
- 1.5 Coherence ........................................................................................... 11 5
- 1.6 EU Added Value .................................................................................. 11 5
- 2.1 Objectives to which the intervention contributes .................................. 13 5
- 2.2 Selected projects and their representativeness ................................... 13 5
- 2.3 Selected impacts to be examined ........................................................ 19 5
- 3.1 Project 1 LIFE PREPAIR .................................................................... 23 5
- 3.2 Project 2 LIFE Impetus ....................................................................... 26 5
- 3.3 Project 3 SOS4LIFE ........................................................................... 28 5
- 3.4 Project 4 LIFE N GRAB HY ............................................................... 30 5
- 3.5 Project 5 LIFE Fit for REACH ............................................................. 33 5
- 4.1 Identified impact 1 ................................................................................ 36 5
- 4.2 Identified impact 2 ................................................................................ 37 5
- 4.3 Identified impact 3 ................................................................................ 37 5
- 4.4 Identified impact 4 ................................................................................ 38 5
- 4.5 Identified impact 5 ................................................................................ 39 6
- Introduction 7
- 1. Conclusions and input to the ex-post 8
- 1.1 Conclusions 8
- 1.2 Relevance 9
- 1.3 Effectiveness 9
- 1.4 Efficiency 10
- 1.5 Coherence 11
- 1.6 EU Added Value 11
- 2. Overview of the context and selected 13
- 2.1 Objectives to which the intervention contributes 13
- 2.2 Selected projects and their representativeness 13
- LIFE PREPAIR 18
- LIFE Impetus 18
- SOS4 LIFE 18
- 2.3 Selected impacts to be examined 19
- 3. Narrative of the chain of change 23
- 3.1 Project 1 LIFE PREPAIR 23
- 3.2 Project 2 LIFE Impetus 26
- 3.3 Project 3 SOS4LIFE 28
- 3.4 Project 4 LIFE N GRAB HY 30
- 3.5 Project 5 LIFE Fit for REACH 33
- 4. Impacts of interventions under the LIFE 36
- Programme 36
- 4.1 Identified impact 1 36
- 4.2 Identified impact 2 37
- 4.3 Identified impact 3 37
- 4.4 Identified impact 4 38
- 4.5 Identified impact 5 39
- 5. Annexes 40
