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.
Stories
Publications
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Infographics: The Climate Urgency
November 30, 2018Infographics illustrating the CIDSE publication “The Climate Urgency: Setting Sail for a New Paradigm”
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Event
- Accompanying movements
- Advocacy
- Campaign
- Connecting
- Influencing
- English
- Agroecology
- Camp
- Change and Care Campaign
- Climate
- Climate justice
- Climate movement
- Climate Negotiation
- Energy
- Energy access
- Energy consumption
- Food and agriculture
- Renewable energy
- Sustainable lifestyles
- Volunteers network
- Broederlijk Delen
- CAFOD
- CCFD – Terre Solidaire
- Cordaid
- Entraide et Fraternité
- Fastenaktion
- FEC
- FOCSIV
- KOO
- Manos Unidas
- Misereor
- SCIAF
- Trócaire
- UNFCCC
CIDSE at COP24 in Katowice, Poland
November 27, 2018Discover CIDSE’s activities and positions at the climate change conference this year
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Panel at the Virtual Climate Summit: a new development paradigm
November 14, 2018Communities are responding to climate change with integral solutions that tackle the systemic origin of the issue. Watch our panel […]
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Infographic: EU energy aid – Is the EU putting their
November 1, 2018Illustrations of the outcomes of the CIDSE study “EU Support for Energy in Developing Countries 2010-2016”. October 2018.
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Energy to change
October 15, 2018An upcoming documentary by CIDSE on energy sustainability for the people and the planet