Life & Environment (L&E) is an Israeli not-for-profit environmental NGO that has served the local environmental movement for the past 40 years, and currently serves as the umbrella organization for more than 150 national and local environmental organizations. L&E has obtained the legal mandate to operate as the official representative of the environmental movement to government agencies, including national and regional building and planning committees, and local environmental protection committees. 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 organizations as well activists on the ground in their environmental activities. L&E provides infrastructure and a unified platform for all its member organizations and assists them in performing their various functions, enhancing impact, developing proper standards for management and operation, and raising levels of accountability. L&E works under the vision of a cohesive, effective, heterogeneous, and pluralistic environmental movement that supports diverse strategies on joint and individual environmental impact.