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The Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Phạm Minh Chính, and the ministerial delegation consisting of four Vietnamese ministers and a large business delegation concluded the first day of their visit to Luxembourg.

The "vigilance phase" for the use of drinking water, which was proclaimed by the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development and the Water management agency on 13 July, is lifted. The "awareness phase" remains in force.

Due to the weather conditions of the last few days and the forecast for the coming days, the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development (MECDD) and the Water management agency (AGE) are appealing to the population to limit the consumption of drinking water as much as possible and to avoid wasting it.

Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, signed today with Frank Rijsberman, Director-General at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), an Agreement that will provide GGGI with the necessary legal and institutional status to allow it to establish an office in Luxembourg.

Launched in June 2020, the international consultation gathered strategic spatial planning proposals and produced ecological transition scenarios for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and its neighbouring border territories by 2050.

The Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, informs that this morning, H.R.H. the Grand Duke has discharged, at her own request, Carole Dieschbourg, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development.

Today, the Minister for the Environment Carole Dieschbourg completed the work on the amendments to the law on nature protection in the Chamber of Deputies. The aim of these amendments is to strengthen the existing legal framework, to optimise legal certainty for citizens and to simplify the existing procedures.

At a joint press conference on November 11, 2021, Carole Dieschbourg, Luxembourg's minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, presented a declaration for a nuclear-free taxonomy together with Ministers from Germany, Austria, Portugal and Denmark.

Rapid antigen tests are not intended for recycling. They should be disposed of in the same garbage can as the usual household waste (grey garbage can).

At a press conference on February 8, 2021, the Minister of the Economy, Franz Fayot, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, Carole Dieschbourg, and the Minister for Energy, Claude Turmes, presented the national "Circular Economy" strategy.

Today, the City Climate Finance Gap Fund ("The Gap Fund”) was launched jointly by ministers and directors of the Governments of Germany and Luxembourg together with the World Bank, European Investment Bank, and Global Covenant of Mayors.

At the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the European Investment Bank, the EU bank, organised a side-event to discuss challenges and solutions to scale up private finance for climate action.