Follow-up on Webinar “Accelerating the transition to climate-neutral and climate-resilient Alps through cross-sectoral energy governance”

 

The Alpine Climate Board (ACB) of the Alpine Convention was pleased to invite to a webinar exploring key insights from our recent report “Cross-sectoral Energy Governance – How Cross-sectoral and Integrated Governance Approaches Can Accelerate the Transition Towards Climate-Neutral and Climate-Resilient Alps”.The report examines effective governance mechanisms for the energy transition with a specific view to cross-sectoral interfaces with other Alpine-relevant topics such as water, tourism, spatial planning, mountain agriculture, and financing. It offers insights into managing and leading collaborative energy governance and highlights the crosscutting nature of the energy transition, urging a rethink of governance frameworks to tackle emerging challenges.

More than 50 participants joined us to hear about the lessons learned from our Energy Governance report and discussed follow-up activities for the Alpine Climate Board. This webinar showcased pilot projects that tackle the interfaces between energy and other sectors and provide an opportunity for networking with related stakeholders.

Please find the presentations here:

The role of a cross-sectoral Energy Governance for implementing the Alpine Climate Action Plan 2.0: Insights from the recent ACB Report “Cross-sectoral Energy Governance – How cross-sectoral and integrated governance approaches can accelerate the transition towards climate-neutral and climate-resilient Alps”; Helen Lückge (Climonomics) and Maren Meyer (Energy Agency South Tyrol-CasaClima)

Nexus “Energy & Tourism”: Exploring broader impacts of the energy transition in tourism regions: the shift to clean energy sources as door opener to broader transformation processes and the role of well-designed stakeholder involvement; Dr. Tanja Tötzer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)

Nexus “Energy & Spatial Planning”: The role of Energy Coordinators and Caretakers to manage conflicting viewpoints regarding the use of scarce and valuable land and to find support for renewable energy projects; Stefan Drexlmeier (Energiewende Oberland)

Nexus “Participation and financing of the energy transition”: Success factors for an effective replication of energy community approaches: the role of modelling and governance structures; Etienne Jouin (Centrales Villageoises)

You can find the full programme here. 

If you want to watch the webinar (again) on the YouTube channel of the Alpine Convention: The video will be uploaded next week.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with Katharina Zwettler from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management (katharina.zwettler@bmluk.gv.at) if you have any questions.