Sustainable development

QuattroPole undertakes to make the future greener, taking care to develop projects linked to the QuattroPole Declaration on Climate Change (2015).

Fair Trade

Since 2012, the four QuattroPole cities have all held the title of Fair Trade Town or Fair Trade Zone. This network of cities is the first cross-border Fair Trade network in Europe.

Altogether, over 310 participants from 25 countries came together for talks, themed soirées and tours to learn about this cross-border region, previously unheard of in the area of Fair Trade, and to discuss the sustainable development goals of the United Nations.

QuattroPole is the first cross-border network of cities to organise this kind of event on an international scale. The majority of the conferences and meetings took place in Saarbrücken, while tours and talks were organised in the other three cities.

The conference was organised by the QuattroPole Fair Trade projects group which includes the following associations: Fair Trade Lëtzebuerg, Artisans du Monde Metz, Fairtrade Initiative Saarbrücken and the Lokale Agenda 21, in collaboration with the three national Fair Trade Towns campaigns.

Green Travel

QuattroPole is developing discussions on the theme of Travelling by Bike in Luxembourg, Metz, Saarbrücken and Trier.

An initial discussion meeting was held at the beginning of 2018 to present each city’s efforts in favour of cycling and the infrastructure being provided.