Greening the Islands Conferences

GTI Conferences

We organise “island forums” with nine editions held to date since 2014, spanning both national and international events.

These forums not only promote synergies and explore the nexus between the three pillars of the green economy – energy, water and mobility – but have gone beyond to launch a new concept of a “broad” circular economy that extends to waste, agriculture and eco-tourism.

The end-goals are self-sufficiency, resilience and better island living.

Greening the Islands involves a significant number of experts in its conferences to

encourage discussion about how to make islands a new model of sustainable living.

Each forum is organised in association with the hosting government, the national association of minor island municipalities and other key local institutions, industry associations and utilities. We bring the key players together to debate how to test and replicate innovative projects, best practices on legislation, etc.

Our latest events have seen the involvement of the European Commission because the approach of Greening the Islands is aligned with its Clean Energy for EU Islands initiative, launched in a political declaration in Malta in 2017.