Sustainable development in Luxembourg
The national plan for sustainable development in Luxembourg has been adopted by the government in April 1999.
This plan aims at implementing conventions and declarations made during the United Nations conference on environment and development (Earth Summit) that took place in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and where participants committed to launch a sustainable development agenda.
The plan seeks to pinpoint the priority action areas of Luxembourg in the sustainable development perspective, to specify concrete objectives and to propose actions and means to achieve results.
As the plan has no legal foundations, the objectives of the plan have no constraining legal value. They are conceived as guidelines to be followed in order to evolve toward a sustainable development.
Its objective is to prepare Luxembourg to the environmental challenge by combining the three pillars of sustainable development:
- Natural resources and environment protection
- Economic sustainability
- Social solidarity
A legal framework for sustainable development, proposed by the government in the law of 25 June 2004, sets out a well-defined structure, specify the various tools to achieve results and nominate their respective owners.
The tools are:
- The national plan for a sustainable development (Plan National pour un Développement Durable (PNDD)).
- The national report on sustainable development implementation (Rapport national sur la mise en oeuvre du développement durable): this report is produced every two year and describes, as scientifically and objective as possible, the Luxembourg situation in terms of sustainable development in order to collect lessons learned, key success factors and typical pitfalls. This report also evaluates the results of actions or inactions in terms of sustainable development. based on hypotheses
- The sustainable development indicators are part of the national report and are used as means to measure actual progress on sustainable development
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