The petition was accepted by Parliament last week. The purpose of it? To reserve 0.5% of Luxembourg's national territory (12.93 km2) for new forests and trees to counter current climate trends and fight emissions.
The petitioner bases his argumentation on a study that was recently published by the science journal of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, which found that the most effective way to counter climate change is, you guessed it, the plantation of millions of new trees across the globe.
According to the petition, Luxembourg could easily dedicate between 12.93 and 13 km2 of territory to the planting of new trees. The maths behind the idea is easy: if you plant one tree every 2m, then you end up with 250,000 trees per km2. This, in return, amounts to a total of about 3,250,000 new plants on a surface of 13km2.
