3rd EPAH Practitioners' Event: Vulnerability and Equity in the Context of Energy Poverty in Central and Northern Europe

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Energy poverty is not only about high energy bills. It is about people’s vulnerability and equity in the energy transition. Despite strong welfare systems, rising energy prices, ageing housing stock, and harsh climatic conditions are generating situations of vulnerability in central northern Europe too particularly among low-income, rural, and aging populations. 

This two-hour online session brings together experts and practitioners to explore what vulnerability and equity mean in practice. Participants will hear both the European framing and concrete regional experiences, from monitoring hidden energy poverty, providing local advisory services, to ensuring that renovation and energy efficiency measures are socially just. The event is designed to spark exchange, practical learning, and pathways for action.

Agenda

(5') Welcome​

(20') Keynote "The concept of vulnerability and equity in the context of energy poverty", Jenny von Platten, expert in the social dimensions of energy transitions, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

(40') Breakout rooms for practitioners to discuss the concept of equity and vulnerability

Through breakout rooms (3 -4 depending on the total number of attendees), participants will debate around the concepts of equity and vulnerability in the context of energy. Breakout rooms will be facilitated by the co-host EPAH antenna Klimabündnis Österreich GmbH and the EPAH team.

(10') Wrap-up and closure 

(5’) Break

(40') Roundtable

• "Local support and advisory for vulnerable groups", Irene Milewski, Doppelplus, providing support on energy poverty at regional level, Climate Alliance Tyrol, Austria
• "T.B.C. energy poverty monitoring, insights and recommendations", Xander van Tilburg, Co-Author of 6th Energy Poverty Monitor, TNO, Netherlands
• "Improving the energy welfare of households", Audrey Dobbins, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets, Germany

(5') Closure

Registration is mandatory for this event. Register here.