UN General Assembly
2022

We are a European leader in sustainable financing. We play a major role in mobilizing the private capital needed to finance the transition to carbon neutrality, including with the European Investment Bank in the area of sustainable financing. Given the climate emergency, I must say that, as politicians, we are at times a little timid. We ask ourselves if we should or should not act. We wonder what the consequences will be if the temperature increases by 1°C or 2°C. But some countries wonder how long they will even exist. They risk being erased from the map of the world because of the temperature rise. Are we as aware of that? In Luxembourg, I launched the Citizens’ Climate Council, where we asked 100 people to meet and make proposals. We realize that our citizens’ proposals are often bolder than how we, as politicians, think. It is quite an interesting experience, and we need to listen to them.