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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Nations must step up their leadership and citizens their actions
June 1, 2017The announcement that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement that was ratified under the Obama administration […]
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Putting change into action at sustainable lifestyles camp inspired by
May 8, 2017Brussels, May 8th, 2017 – From May 9th to 13th, supporters of CIDSE’s member organizations will gather in Portugal to […]
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We are the strength and we are the hope!
February 27, 2017A blog by Dr. Vaishali Patil, anti-nuclear activist (Jaitapur, India) and member of the National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements, on […]
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International Photo Competition on Sustainable Lifestyles
January 25, 2017The CIDSE Campaign “Change for the Planet – Care for the People” invites you to participate in its first international […]
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In solidarity with those opposing pipelines on their ancestral lands
December 2, 2016The government of Canada recently announced that it rejected the construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would have cut […]