The objective was therefore to identify the levers that can be activated across the territory, either to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to capture them, while ensuring that the overall system tends towards maximum resilience, in order to maintain the ability to respond to crises and control rebound effects. The team also sought to achieve a result that is satisfactory for the planet as a whole and for all living beings – including humans – through the concept of global health (One Health), considered as the necessary outcome of the proposed system, in other words its ultimate goal.

Applied to the territorial system, a first analysis identifies two key levers: the decarbonisation of energy, in order to power transport, the economy, and heating (or even cooling) without CO₂ emissions, and the consideration of the different territorial realities that inhabit, consume, and exploit natural resources.

A third lever, currently less dominant but fundamental for a society in transition, is the transformation of agriculture and the preservation of biodiversity in order to increase the territory’s capacity to absorb change.

These three levers are at the core of the team’s proposal and are translated into spatial forces:

• the first are technical

• the second forces mobilised are those at the basis of our life

• lifestyles related to territorial realities

• global health

mandate type: international consultation with preselection

client: ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning, Department of Spatial Planning

period: 2020-2021

program : cross-border planning

services provided : analysis, scenario development, and vision for a carbon-neutral territory

urbanism: Raum404 

landscape: BASE paysage

mobility: Basler&Hoffman

sociology : Novascopia

energy : Drees&Sommer

urban strategy : Topos Urbanisme

project lead: Lucile Ado 

size: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and neighbouring regions