Reducing risks together: Multi-hazards and multi-risks in the energy sector

This document transfers the MYRIAD-EU approach to the energy sector, including harmonised definitions of multi-hazard/multirisk, sets of historical events, and a multi-sectoral perspective. This approach is applied in five pilots – Danube, Scandinavia, North Sea, Veneto, Canary Islands – to co-develop Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) pathways.

The recommendations given are as follows:

• Adopt and implement integrated risk frameworks that account for compound, cascading, and interconnected hazards.
• Upgrade aging energy infrastructure to withstand extreme weather events.
• Extend cross-border interconnection, which is a key strategy to strengthen energy systems against various climate-related hazards.
• Strengthen regional and cross-border cooperation through EU mechanisms.
• Improve data collection and analytics on energy infrastructure and hazard exposure to support advanced risk modelling.
• Training energy sector professionals in multi-risk thinking.