A new report from Eurostat shows Luxembourg has the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions for household heating and cooling in the EU.

Luxembourg’s real estate market, as all residents of the Grand Duchy know, is highly overpriced. But it is also expensive for the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

In its latest interactive publication entitled Housing in Europe, Eurostat compared the environmental impact of housing per inhabitant across the EU. And it’s bad news for Luxembourg, which lies at the bottom of the pack.

According to figures for 2021, each inhabitant of the Grand Duchy emits an average of 1,635 kg of greenhouse gases on heating and cooling their home.

The European average was 732 kg per inhabitant in the EU in 2021, compared to 913 kg in 2010. Rounding out the top three were Belgium (1,400 kg) and Ireland (1.346 kg).

If we compare Luxembourg with its other neighbours, Germany remains above the European average with 1,024 kg/capita, while France is far lower at 638 kg.

Being a northern European country with a harsher climate is not enough to explain Luxembourg’s poor performance: the best performing country in the EU is Sweden with household heating emissions of barely 25 kg/capita in 2021.

The answer lies in Luxembourg’s failure to integrate renewable energies into its national network: only 11.7% of the country’s energy supply derives from renewable sources.

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