Adri van Westerop (9 December 1957 – 23 December 2009) was a Luxembourg politician, author and scientist.
[Forum for critical information, 1990] She was born in
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
,
Netherlands.
She moved to Luxembourg in 1983 and became the first environmental counselor in 1997.
As an engaged
environmentalist, she set herself a more healthy and responsive life and sought to organize and broaden ecologically and socially responsible acts.
The following topics were of particular interest to van Westerop: healthy eating, ecological construction, environmental protection, retailers responsibility, fair trade, and solidarity with developing countries. In January 2011 she was awarded the 2010 Help for Nature Award.
She was active in the press and in the media, and on different radio stations.
Adri van Westerop was married and mother of one child.
Van Westerop died 23 December 2009 in
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Politics
Adri van Westerop was elected to the municipal council of
Betzdorf in 1999.
She was president of two communal commissions: the Climate Change Commission (the Alliance for the Climate) and the Foreign Commission. She was involved in the Climate Alliance and
LEADER programme. Adri van Westerop was a candidate for
the Greens for
European elections
Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are considered the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
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- and for the Chamber elections.
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1957 births
2009 deaths
People from Haarlem
Deaths in Luxembourg