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.

Officer (On maternity leave)
Lydia
Lehlogonolo Machaka
machaka(at)cidse.org

Interim Officer
Kim Claes
claes(at)cidse.org
Stories
Publications
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Appeal to UNFCCC & States Parties on Human rights at
October 18, 2022CIDSE, together with over 200 partners released an open letter asking the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
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Hopes and territorial struggles against mining dispossession
August 25, 2022Virtual Caravan Mining activities in Latin America have increased significantly in recent years. In general, Latin American countries have seen […]
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Catholic organisations warn against green washing ahead of crucial vote
July 5, 2022As the European Parliament prepares to vote tomorrow on whether to veto the Commission’s proposal for a Complementary Climate Delegated […]
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Stand With Ukraine
March 4, 2022CIDSE, with 450 civil society organisations from Ukraine and beyond, signed the statement “Stand with Ukraine” in solidarity with the […]
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A fair shares phase out of fossil fuels
November 5, 2021A civil society equity review on an equitable global phase out of fossil fuels, November 2021. As climate negotiations enter […]