These projects are located in Cyprus, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Slovakia, Czechia and Spain.
Integrated projects improve citizens’ quality of life by helping Member States comply with EU legislation in six areas: nature, water, air, waste, climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation. They support implementation of environmental and climate legislation in a coordinated manner and on a large territorial scale, leveraging funding from other EU sources, national and regional actors and private investors.
The LIFE investment is set to mobilise over €6.5 billion of complementary funds, as Member States can also make use of other EU funding sources, including agricultural, regional and structural funds, Horizon 2020, as well as national funds and private sector investment.
The large-scale projects will support the European Green Deal and the EU’s ambition of becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. They will help to restore and conserve ecosystems and species we all depend on, move towards a circular economy, improve air and water quality, boost sustainable finance and increase climate resilience in Europe.
As mentioned above, one of the Integrated projects comes from Latvia. It is based under the water category and will be working at river basin-scale will protect and improve water quality in Ireland and Latvia’s rivers and lakes, enabling the countries to meet their obligations under the EU Water Framework Directive.
The main objective of the project (LIFE GoodWater IP) is to improve water quality in Latvia’s rivers and lakes.
Further description of LIFE GoodWater IP:
Management of river basins in Latvia must be improved in order to meet the standards required by the EU Water Framework Directive. LIFE GoodWater IP will implement in full the measures set out in management plans for Latvia’s four river basins, improving water quality in the country’s rivers and lakes. As a result, 5% of the water bodies currently at risk are expected to achieve ‘good’ status. Long term, the project should indirectly help up to 30% reach this level. LIFE GoodWater IP will reduce pollution in water bodies caused by urban wastewater and by nutrients in run-off from agricultural and forestry land. The project will also improve hydrological conditions and restore natural river dynamics by adding boulders and gravel at key sites while removing silt and vegetation at others.
Source and more information: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_251
