On 17 June, the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat, together with NESOI - European Islands Facility and OCTA, organised an event in the context of the European Sustainable Energy Week to discuss how the clean energy transition can help EU islands build a resilient and sustainable economy, particularly on the back of the COVID19 pandemic.

The event brought together more than 150 participants from Europe and all around the globe.

Building on the EU Islands Secretariat's previous capacity-building webinars on financing, this webinar will introduce you to the Secretariat's brand new financing corner for islands, and take a deep-dive into the subjects of sustainable business plans and public / private financing.

Speakers

Myriam Castanié, Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat
Leon Pulles, Managing Partner, Energy Investment Management BV 

Find the presentation below

Financing tools
for the island energy transition

As part of the EU Islands Initiative's energy transition workshop, the Secretariat and the Spanish Institute for Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE) are organising an online workshop on 3 November.

We hear it all the time: the children are the future. Whilst this does not discharge the current adult generation from the responsibility to take fast and ambitious action against climate change and for the energy transition, it is indeed crucial to ensure that the generations that follow are empowered to take the next steps.

On 17 June, the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat, together with NESOI - European Islands Facility and OCTA, organised an event in the context of the European Sustainable Energy Week to discuss how the clean energy transition can help EU islands build a resilient and sustainable economy, particularly on the back of the COVID19 pandemic.

Find the full recording of the session here. 

Buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of EU energy consumption and 36% of the CO2 emissions. In EU households, heating and hot water alone account for 79% of total final energy use. Although the demand for cooling is rather a small share of total final energy use, it is currently rising during the summer months - a trend that is also related to climate change the increases in temperature.

For many EU islands, transport is one of the most important sources of CO2 emissions. On top of the fuel used for the many cars, ferries make up a large part of an island's carbon footprint.

If island communities want to reduce their climate impact and make their transport systems future proof, they will need to be creative about changing the technologies they use, but also about how residents and tourists use the transportation means available on and around the island.

Community engagement aims to include citizens and civil society organizations in decision-making processes in order to achieve long-term and sustainable results and processes around the clean energy transition. Due to their disconnection from the mainland, islands represent one of the most challenging contexts to work with.

Local, national and EU governments all acknowledge that citizens have an important role to play in the energy transition. The question now is: how can we better involve civil society in the transition?

This webinar will be building on the previous session on Transition Management organised by the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat (see our overview of webinars). It will zoom in on the clean energy aspects of Transition Management and the opportunity for pushing the Clean Energy Transition on islands. 

Strategy and agenda setting for EU islands.

Moderation: Jorge Rodrigues de Almeida – Financial lead, Clean energy for EU islands secretariat (RdA)

● Miquel Garcia Edo - Junior Project Engineer, Energy Transition Department, Insular Council of Menorca / Biosphere Reserve Agency

● Carlos Sanchez - Senior Associate, Smart Cities Infrastructure Fund, Whitehelm Capital

● Georg Houben - Coordinator of the Smart Cities Marketplace, DG ENER, European Commission