Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal at the High-Level Panel on “Sustainable Cities and Communities” at Vienna Energy Forum, 11 May 2017

Vienna Energy Forum 2017, a key global energy forum with 1,650 registered participants and about 50 speakers.

High-level sessions of Vienna Energy Forum took place on 11 and 12 May at the Hofburg Palace. Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal was invited to participate to High Level Panel on “Sustainable Cities and Communities“.

VEF02 VEF03 VEF01

Dr. Dhakal highlighted the needs to address infrastructure lock-in  rapidly urbanizing regions, cross-boundary linkages of cities, governance mis-matches and to focus on systemic and long-term solutions. Urban energy is central to SDGs and, given the scale of sustainability challenges, the incremental solutions are no longer enough, transformative solutions are the must.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>