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Success in the fight against climate change: funding doubles in two years
With the aim of meeting the targets set in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, the European Union has become the largest public funder of climate change, doubling its project funding in two years.
Area trends and forecasts
Funding by year
The commitment to the fight against climate change is clear and the funding trend is clearly on the rise. While in 2020 the budget for climate change projects was approximately 1.6 billion euros, 2021 saw a significant quantitative leap: the figure rose to 3.3 billion euros.
Open and forthcoming funding opportunities in Climate Change
The following is a list of open and forthcoming funding opportunities for climate change projects with their closing dates. You can check the details of each of the calls for proposals by logging in to Kaila. Not registered yet? Create an account now, it’s free!
? Forthcoming funding opportunities
? Open calls about climate change
Intervention áreas
Among the most important areas of intervention of the innovation projects against climate change are:
- Climate science and solutions
- Energy supply
- Energy systems and networks
- Buildings and industrial facilities in the energy transition
- Communities and cities
- Industrial competitiveness in transport
- Clean, safe, and accessible transport and mobility
- Intelligent mobility
- Energy storage
Funding programmes for climate change projects
The European programmes that have published the most funding opportunities related to the area since 2014 so far are Horizon 2020 (341) and Horizon Europe (195). Given that the Horizon Europe programme is currently underway and part of the Cluster 5 calls related to climate change are still unpublished, it is foreseeable that this figure will be exceeded shortly.
Projects per year and funding per Project
Since 2014, 4,759 projects have been carried out. The year with the highest number of projects was 2019 with 441. It is worth noting that, despite the fact that each year the amount of funding has been increasing, the number of projects does not have an upward trend from 2016 to 2021. It remains fairly stable. Therefore, we can deduce that there has been more budget for each project.
The average budget per project was 1.4 M€ in 2014 and 2.4 M€ in 2021.
Countries with the highest number of projects
Italy tops the list of European countries with the most projects carried out (2,761). It is followed by a similar number of projects: Spain (2,369), Germany (2,351), France (2,300), and the United Kingdom (2,300).
The rest of the countries that complete the list have lower participation.
Geographical distribution of funding
Below is a map of the geographical areas that receive the most funding for climate change projects. Although Italy is the leader in terms of the number of projects, the area of northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands has received the most funding.
Map of coordinators
Climate change project coordinators are similarly spread across Europe.
Most innovative organisations in the field
These are the organisations that have carried out the most climate change projects in the European Union over the last five years.
As for the organisations that have obtained the most funding by carrying out projects in the last five years, we can see that four of the five organisations coincide, although they do not appear in the same order. And in the case of funding, a new organisation appears, MPG, with a total of 19 projects (which is why it did not appear in the previous list).
Projects with increased funding
These are the projects that have obtained the most funding in the last five years.
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