BUILDING RESILIENT ENERGY SYSTEMS
While some poor and vulnerable communities live without energy access, they are also on the frontline for climate change impacts.
CIDSE advocates for the transformation of the global energy system so that it protects and delivers for all its people. Building safe, affordable, reliable, and efficient energy systems based on renewable sources will meet development needs while complying with the goal of the Paris Agreement to stay within 1.5°C warming of global average temperatures. Such systems can also positively contribute to address the causes of climate change and increase local resilience to current and future climatic impacts. CIDSE also denounces false solutions such as coal, large hydro-power projects, agrofuels and nuclear which can’t deliver a fair and long-term transition.
We believe a rapid global shift to 100% renewable energy production by no later than 2050 is absolutely necessary, as well as a radical and rapid reduction of energy consumption across all sectors. CIDSE also identifies the need to reduce the overall energy footprint of our lifestyles in the global north, and we promote this in our work on sustainable lifestyles.
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Officer
Lydia Lehlogonolo Machaka
machaka(at)cidse.org
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Officer
Kim Claes
claes(at)cidse.org
Stories
Publications
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Xolobeni Community and the Struggle for Consent
November 27, 2017“We believe that we know who we are because of the land. We believe that once you have lost the […]
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To truly address climate change; let’s stop talking and start
November 16, 2017Time has come to answer Pope Francis’s call to action and tackle the climate crisis at its roots.
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Almost 100 Organisations Worldwide Condemn UN Aviation Agency’s Biofuel Plans
October 10, 2017Environmental and development organizations from five continents have today written to the UN’s aviation agency (ICAO) condemning a proposal for […]
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Pablo Solón and Rafael Archondo unfairly accused by the Bolivian
July 13, 2017CIDSE calls on the Bolivian government to withdraw its accusations
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Ahead of the G7 Environment Ministers meeting, Christian groups call
June 9, 2017Act Alliance, CIDSE, Global Catholic Climate Movement, Focsiv joint press release