LIFE has been one of the EUs most successful programmes, achieving measurable results for ecosystems, biodiversity, and climate action. Diluting or dismantling it would mark a historic setback for the European Green Deal and the EUs environmental commitments, undermining both Europes capacity and credibility to meet its own biodiversity and climate goals.
WIE
Wetlands International Europe
NGO · Belgium · EU Transparency Register 073127814104-19
10
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
9
legislative files
of 665 tracked
9
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,774 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1106 non-governmental organisations on this site, they rank #134 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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declared costs / yr (floor)
4
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2014
in the register since
Declares membership of
- https://europe.wetlands.org/partnerships-and-alliances/
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Non-governmental organisations
- Registered as
- Wetlands International - European Association (WI-EA)
- Head office
- Ede, Netherlands
- EU office
- Bruxelles
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
Wetlands International Europe filed 10 positions between 1 May 2020 and 29 Jul 2026, across 9 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 9 times.
2020 · 1 filed2022 · 2 filed2023 · 2 filed2025 · 4 filed2026 · 1 filed
What they argued
Wetlands International welcomes the initiative to achieve EU Climate neutrality by 2050. We agree on the fact that the natural sink of forests, soils, agricultural lands and wetlands should be maintained. While suggesting to invest in research to consider other wet ecosystems like marshes and wetlands as carbon sink, we would like to stress the need to prevent further damage to existing carbon megastores, staged…
Wetlands International Europe would like to share its feedback on the proposal for EU rules on the certification of carbon removals. Wetlands International Europe welcomes the Commission's initiative to propose harmonised rules at EU level.
Wetlands International European Association and Rewilding Europe urge the EC to value that healthy wetlands, including peatlands, store vast amounts of carbon in their soils and biomass, but they can become a huge source of emissions upon degradation.
“Bringing nature back into our lives” is the main goal enshrined in the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy. The proposed EU Regulation on Nature Restoration is a crucial piece of legislation to achieve this goal. Wetlands International Europe welcomes the proposal of the European Commission and calls on the European Parliament and Council to adopt an even more ambitious regulation and put the EU at the forefront of…
EU legislation is progressing in the right direction to address climate change, as confirmed by the European Court of Auditors (CoA2024). Living Rivers Europe has provided extensive advice, available on our website, on improving implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Water Resilience Strategy (WRS).
The Advanced Materials Act will offer solutions for successful implementation of the European Green Deal, improving the environmental performance of products and processes. Therefore, we would like to highlight how paludiculture biomass applications could ensure cohesion between the Advanced Materials Act and other climate objectives, maximising co-benefits in achieving the targets of EU Climate Law and LULUCF.
Please find attached Wetlands International Europe's response to the Call for Evidence on the Water Resilience Research and Innovation Strategy. We define 4 priorities that we believe could make a significant contribution to Europe's long-term water resilience, climate adaptation and competitiveness.
We welcome the opportunity to share our feedback on the CAP simplification package. While we support genuine simplification and certain elements, we are deeply concerned about the environmental implications of the proposal. In particular, we highlight risks to GAEC 2, the weakening of conditionality, and the lack of a proper impact assessment.
The LIFE programme is an extremely important tool to support the delivery of the Green Deal. It makes a particularly unique contribution in the context of species conservation measures relevant in the context of the EU Birds and Habitat Directives. In addition, the LIFE programme also provides valuable support to environmental NGO networks.
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