Climate Governance and Information is the third priority area of the LIFE Climate Action Sub-programme. Its priority task is to support and consolidateproject ideas that contribute to developing climate policy management and to increase awareness and knowledge sharing of climate-related issues at local, regional, national and/or transnational levels . Proposals submitted in this priority area will receive grants totalling EUR 7 million in 2016.

Concrete objectives of the Climate Governance and Information priority area are especially the following:

• Increasing awareness of climate-related issues;
• Support of communication and dissemination of information;
• Sharing knowledge related to successful climate policy solutions and practices;
• More efficient compliance with EU climate governance laws and their more efficient implementation;
• Development of climate governance, extensive consultation concerning implementation of policies (involvement of NGOs).

Key priorities of Climate Governance and Information priority area in 2016:

• Establishment of national climate and energy strategies for 2030 and/or 2050 and support of their implementation (National Climate Change Strategy – NCCS; National Energy Strategy;
• Establishment of a reinforced network of emission control and evaluation experts;
• Raising awareness of the services sector and education on the implementation of new climate governance legal regulations (with respect to Directive 517/2014/EU on fluorinated greenhouse gases);
• Establishment of a climate policy monitoring and an ex-post evaluation coordination platform
• Sharing best practices and raising awareness in connection with climate change-sensitive effects;

Information, awareness and dissemination projects. According to the European Commission's 2016 LIFE call, this year the emphasis will be on supporting those projects, which focus on capacity building actions – “train the trainers” types.

There have not been any successful Hungarian projects yet.