SPACE FOR DEVELOPMENT

Exchanges with var­i­ous play­ers in the pri­vate sec­tor and in research con­tin­ued in 2023, regard­ing the poten­tial of space tech­nolo­gies able to direct­ly sup­port the imple­men­ta­tion of devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion projects, access to space in devel­op­ing coun­tries and capac­i­ty build­ing, as well as the deploy­ment of space tech­nolo­gies such as in the con­text of earth obser­va­tion. In this con­text, an ongo­ing dia­logue has been con­duct­ed with the Lux­em­bourg Space Agency (LSA) to explore avenues for collaboration.

Lux­em­bourg pro­vid­ed exper­tise through the Space Law for New Space Actors project, imple­ment­ed through the Unit­ed Nations Office for Out­er Space Affairs (UNOOSA); the project came to an end in 2023. Anoth­er prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion of Space for Devel­op­ment is emer​gency​.lu, a plat­form that uses, among oth­er things, satel­lite tech­nolo­gies to restore com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the event of dis­as­ters. In addi­tion, in 2023 the Busi­ness Part­ner­ship Facil­i­ty financed a project by a Lux­em­bourg com­pa­ny active in the field of earth obser­va­tion, tar­get­ing the devel­op­ment of a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem for car­bon cred­its in Cameroon.