Claude Turmes was appointed Minister for Energy and Minister for Spatial Planning of Luxembourg in December 2018. Before that, he was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2018. He was the Vice President of the parliamentary group of the Green Party in the European Parliament and was a member of the Committee on environ¬ment, health and consumer protection as well as a member of the Committee on industry, energy, telecom and research. Claude Turmes was the rapporteur of a large number of European directives, in particular on renewable energies, energy efficiency, the electricity market and climate plans.

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“To promote lifestyle change, we need a new kind of territorial development, a new way to think urban planning. Faced with the global environmental emergency, “Luxembourg in Transition” is defining a territorial vision, which reduces our ecological footprint.”