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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Catholic leaders worlwide urge the G20 to ‘Consign Fossil Fuels
October 11, 2021Over 70 Catholic Church leaders, including cardinals, archbishops and heads of religious congregations have released a call to world leaders […]
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CIDSE Joins Global Day of Action towards a compassionate and
March 12, 2021CIDSE joins the Global Day of Action this March 11th, launched by The Green Faith International Network to send a […]
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Sharing energy to change
December 5, 2019Last October, during the Amazon Synod in Rome and as an event of “Amazon Common Home“, CIDSE with its campaign […]
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“Energy to Change”: online launch and offline screenings around the
April 23, 2019The way people produce and access energy is a crucial aspect of our lives, because energy is essential to our […]
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Is EU support for energy in developing countries fully aligned
April 20, 2019CIDSE, CAFOD, Geres, Hivos Policy Briefing, March 2019