LIFE & ENVVIRONMENT
Life & Environment (L&E) is an Israeli not-for-profit environmental NGO that serves the local environmental movement. The organization works under the vision of a cohesive, effective, heterogenous, and pluralistic environmental movement that supports diverse strategies on joint and individual environmental impact. L&E leads and shapes public and political discourse on environmentalism and climate change in Israel; manages broad coalitions that tackle climate change and other environmental issues in Israel; empowers large organizations as well activists on the ground in their environmental activities; and lobbies towards government and private sectors.
Our Projects
Strategy-building and Development for the Environmental Movement
Coalitions and Forums Management
Outreach and Empowerment of the Arab Society
The Issue
The environmental challenge in Israel has become increasingly complex and challenging over the years – more than in many other places in the world: Israel is defined by the UN as a hotspot for climate change damage due to its location close to Africa and part of the Middle East, areas that are undergoing desertification; and it is constantly listed at the bottom of environmental indexes, such as air quality, transportation, and waste