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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The Climate Urgency: Setting Sail for a New Paradigm
September 19, 2018A CIDSE policy paper, September 2018
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Finding energy is like trying to find gold
July 24, 2018The town of Ogies is nestled in the heart of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa’s coal capital. The drive from Johannesburg […]
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Improving energy access in Africa and Latin America
June 14, 2018Problems of access to energy, with communities not being able to afford energy produced in their region and at the […]
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Press release: EU countries must step up to implement gender-responsive
June 5, 2018…says a group of civil society organizations on the occasion of the European Development Days and World Environment Day.
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Meet CIDSE at the European Development Days in Brussels!
June 1, 2018The European Development Days (EDDs) will take place in Brussels on 5-6 June 2018 with the focus this year on […]