We Are Alps Tour 2016: "Alpine Green Economy"
Innsbruck, Austria
From: 29.06.2016 to: 05.07.2016
The 2016 edition of the We are Alps tour will look for answers to what the green economy is, how it is unfolding in the Alps - whether different from the lowlands, what its characteristics are and what good practice examples can be found across the Alps (with focus this year on the Eastern Alps).
A selected group of journalists will participate in the one-week tour on a route linking Innsbruck, Austria, and Gorizia, Italy. Activities on the topic of Green Economy in the Alps, including energy efficiency in lighting and building, renewable energy production, sustainable use of natural resources, ecosystem services and natural capital-based economy, and overall economic development as the basis for a good quality life in the Alps, will be carried out in Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Italy. As always in the We are Alps tour, the group will travel exclusively by sustainable means of transport, i.e. train, bus, bike and on foot.
The participants will have the opportunity to meet the actors of flagship projects contributing to innovative approaches on topics such as water and forest management, spatial planning, transport, tourism, farming, energy production and savings and many more. The tour is organized in close cooperation with local partners, stakeholders and observer organization.
Alpine green economy is also the topic of the upcoming Report on the State of the Alps, which will be presented to the Alpine ministers in October, and tour participants will have a chance to catch a glimpse of it.
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Photo: Alpine Convention
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