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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EU climate finance: more than a numbers’ game?
October 12, 2018Last Tuesday, 9th October, we organised a round table event at the European Parliament in Brussels together with Climate Action […]
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The urgency to shift to a new economic model
October 5, 2018Interview with Sammy Gamboa from Freedom from Debt Coalition in the Philippines, an organisation conducting policy advocacy work and campaigns […]
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Climate and Energy
October 5, 2018CIDSE advocates for the transformation of the global energy system so that it protects and delivers for all its people, […]
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EU Support for Energy in Developing Countries 2010-2016
October 3, 2018Study commissioned to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) by CIDSE, October 2018
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Press release- CIDSE’s new report “The Climate Urgency: Setting Sail
September 24, 2018CIDSE network analyses the radical and urgent change needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C, looking at the energy and […]