Here you will find a series of inspiring environmental success stories - from protecting and restoring nature, to reducing waste and pollution, and acting on the climate crisis.
With the help of EU funding, these projects are helping to implement the European Green Deal on the ground. They contribute to the shift towards a circular, energy efficient, climate-neutral Europe and help protect and improve the quality of the environment.
The European Union funds projects that protect and restore the environment, across Europe and beyond. The LIFE programme, for example, is the EU's funding instrument entirely dedicated to environmental, climate and energy objectives. It has already written thousands of success stories since 1992.
Discover a variety of these successful projects below.
Discover how Love&Green use the EU Ecolabel to turn their ambition into reality: revolutionise hygiene standards. Check out their success story!
Discover why should public procurers choose the EU Ecolabel. Join the webinar on 10 October 2025 to explore how to make greener procurement a reality across Europe with the EU Ecolabel. Register now!
Discover the Drylock success story to learn how circularity and eco-design can soak up demand and drive real business gains.
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RSSDiscover how Love&Green use the EU Ecolabel to turn their ambition into reality: revolutionise hygiene standards. Check out their success story!
Discover why should public procurers choose the EU Ecolabel. Join the webinar on 10 October 2025 to explore how to make greener procurement a reality across Europe with the EU Ecolabel. Register now!
Discover the Drylock success story to learn how circularity and eco-design can soak up demand and drive real business gains.
Monitoring the number of brown bears roaming the vast, politically fragmented Dinaric Mountains presents a cross-border challenge. However, by enlisting the help of hunters and foresters as citizen scientists, this challenge has been transformed into a conservation success story.
When wolves returned to Belgium after more than a century, the Wolf Fencing Team Belgium (WFTB) sprang into action, mobilising professionals and volunteers to help livestock owners adapt. Installing more than 200 wolf-deterrent fences since 2019 has led livestock damage cases to drop substantially!
Going on holiday or heading to a music festival? Make your packing list greener with the EU Ecolabel! Read more to learn why you should trust the flower logo to guide your sustainable choices!
At first glance, the EU Ecolabel may seem modest, a simple green flower. Yet behind that symbol lies a robust framework driving measurable change. Since 1992, it has driven Europe towards a clean, competitive and circular economy.
Can countries unite to protect Europe’s large carnivores? A brand-new handbook is helping experts across the Dinaric–Balkan–Pindos region monitor bears, wolves and lynx together, overcoming borders.
Wolves, bears, lynx and wolverines—Sweden's countryside is inhabited by four large carnivore species. But can people and predators really coexist? The Swedish Wildlife Damage Centre is providing innovative solutions and hands-on support to help farmers, hunters and wildlife live together.
Public buyers can make a step towards green procurement of paper products. The two newly released Practical guides for the use of the EU Ecolabel in the green public procurement of graphic paper, and of tissue paper and tissue products are here to help.