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On Monday 25 March 2024, the Minister of the Environment, Climate and Biodiversity, Serge Wilmes, took part in the meeting of the Environment Council of the European Union (EU), held in Brussels.

On 15 March 2024, the 23rd Partnership Commission between Luxembourg and Cabo Verde took place, an annual meeting to discuss the broad outlines of our cooperation relations with this partner country since 1993.

At a recent meeting between Ministers Luc Frieden, Martine Hansen and Serge Wilmes and representatives of Luxembourg's agricultural sector, the government underlined the importance it attaches to the concerns of the agricultural, horticultural and wine-growing sectors.

Within the frame of the national platform for disaster risk reduction, led by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the working group on "Vegetation and Forest Fires", composed of experts from the relevant authorities, has prepared advice on how to behave during the vegetation and forest fire season.

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a treaty-based intergovernmental organisation, inaugurated its European Liaison Office in Luxembourg today. This new office is a significant milestone for the organisation, as it aims to facilitate exchanges between GGGI's Member States and European partners to support climate action and access to green and climate finance in Africa, Latin America and Asia

How are the three authorities actively involved in local climate and environmental protection? What new and exciting projects are currently in the works? And what do we learn from this? These questions will be the focus of the 3rd Environment Days ("Ëmweltdeeg"), to which the Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development cordially invites all interested parties to the "natur musée".

On April 17 2023, the Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, Joëlle Welfring, the Minister for Energy, Claude Turmes, and the Minister of the Economy, Franz Fayot, presented the first draft for the update of the "Energie- a Klimaplang fir Lëtzebuerg".

On 30 March 2023, the Administrative Court confirmed the judgment of the Administrative Tribunal of 15 July 2022 annulling the decisions to withdraw the authorisations for placing on the market of eight plant protection products containing the active substance glyphosate.

On Thursday, 30 March, Minister of Finance, Yuriko Backes, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, Joëlle Welfring, and Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Kris Peeters, presented a financing agreement between Luxembourg and the EIB to fund the ecological restoration of the Alzette river and its tributary, the Pétrusse.

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, Joëlle Welfring, represented Luxembourg at the United Nations Water Conference 2023, the first since 1977, which took place from 21 to 24 March 2023 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The conference was a great success and provided decisive answers to the global water crisis.

World Water Day will be celebrated for the 30th time on 22 March under the theme "Accelerating Change". It was established by the United Nations in 1993 to raise awareness of the importance of water resources and to promote and support their sustainable management for future generations. It is clear that this goal is far from being achieved.

On Monday, 20 March 2023, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the Synthesis Report for the Sixth Assessment Report that summarises 8 years of climate science. Luxembourg was represented at the IPCC by Dr. Andrew Ferrone, chef du service de la météorologie de l'ASTA, and his colleague, Dana Lang, chargée d'études.