(L-R): Romain Wehles, CCO Spuerkeess; Tonika Hirdman, General Director at Luxembourg Foundation; Françoise Thoma, CEO Spuerkeess.; Credit: Spuerkeess

On Friday 17 January 2025, Spuerkeess confirmed its commitment to the fight against global warming by committing to support the Climate Foundation with an annual donation of €50,000.

The Fondation de Luxembourg, an independent centre of expertise and advice in philanthropy, launched the Climate Foundation under its aegis in 2024. Dedicated to the fight against climate change and the preservation of biodiversity, the Climate Foundation supports corporate donors who wish to support local projects with a concrete impact in these areas. Each project is reviewed by a scientific committee of experts to ensure its alignment with environmental issues and thus contribute to Luxembourg's ecological transition objectives.

Tonika Hirdman, Managing Director of the Luxembourg Foundation, stated: "The Fondation de Luxembourg welcomes this new partnership with Spuerkeess, a key player in the country's economic development. Its concrete commitment reaffirms to us that companies play an important role in the climate transition. Through the Climate Foundation, the Luxembourg Foundation strives to offer companies, in a simplified way, the opportunity to act for the environment and to amplify their local impact." 

The first project supported by Spuerkeess is the "SMART regio" (Sustainability Monitoring and Assessment RouTine) project led by the Institut fir Biologesch Landwirtschaft an Agrarökologie Luxemburg (IBLA).

Françoise Thoma, CEO of Spuerkeess, stated: "Spuerkeess fully embraces its role as a "Transition Enabler" which consists of supporting our individual customers, but above all also companies, towards more sustainable practices that contribute to the fight against global warming. The Climate Foundation brings together a multitude of stakeholders around this common objective. It was therefore logical for Spuerkeess to get involved. We chose the IBLA project because we expect very concrete results for local agriculture."

This project aims to raise awareness among farmers and consumers about agricultural practices that preserve natural habitats and to support the agricultural sector in the transition to more sustainable practices. About half of Luxembourg's total surface area is made up of agricultural land, and it is therefore essential to support farmers in moving towards more sustainable practices that take climate change into account. Even minor changes contribute to the preservation of biodiversity, water and soil.