OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Luxembourg 2020
Luxembourg has made progress in decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth, treating wastewater and managing waste and materials. It has also positioned itself as an international centre for green finance. Yet, it remains one of the most carbon- and material-intensive economies in the OECD. The country is a crossroads for freight traffic and attracts thousands of daily cross-border commuters. This exacerbates greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution and road congestion. Urban sprawl, landscape fragmentation and agriculture exert strong pressures on biodiversity.
To steer its economy towards a greener model, Luxembourg has set ambitious environmental objectives. Greening taxation, providing stronger price signals, promoting eco-innovation and the circular economy, mainstreaming biodiversity into all policies, and investing in low-carbon infrastructure and sustainable mobility, should be priorities.
This is the third Environmental Performance Review of Luxembourg. It evaluates progress towards green growth and sustainable development, with special chapters focusing on two major issues: air quality and mobility, and biodiversity.
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Environmental performance: Trends and recent developments
Chapter 1 provides an overview of the main environmental trends observed in Luxembourg since 2005. It describes the country's progress and challenges on its path towards decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth and achieving national and international goals, based on data from national and international sources. It reviews the main economic and social developments, takes stock of changes in the energy, carbon and material levels of the economy and measures progress towards sustainable management of natural resources. Where possible, trends are compared with those of other OECD member countries.
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