INFORSE Latin America text under update
INFORSE Latin America “Synergies between continents”
In many cases in Latin American countries, local sustainable energy solutions can contribute much better than large-scale solutions to reduce poverty, increase access to energy, help create livelihoods in rural areas, increase food security with local food conservation and improving health, while contributing to reducing deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.
The Local Solutions Project of the INFORSE network focuses on two priority objectives in line with the previously described context:
– Strengthening the capacity of CSOs (Civil Society Organizations) in the dissemination of local sustainable energy solutions
– Increase the capacity of CSOs to promote sustainable energy and local solutions for inclusion in climate and development plans at the national, provincial and local levels.
With this intervention we want to strengthen society’s capacity to build a grassroots, pro-poor and inclusive response to the climate crisis, leading to a transition towards energy-sustainable and climate-neutral societies through local solutions. The project addresses the challenge of achieving rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, to achieve global climate goals in ways that also support human development out of poverty.
This also includes energy poverty, where people do not have adequate access to affordable energy services. The intervention will focus on solutions with sustainable use of local resources, local participation and capacity development.
By sharing experiences and information about these solutions between civil society organizations in different countries and continents, and developing and disseminating information about their benefits and how to integrate them into climate and development plans, the solutions can be taken into account and used on a larger scale. , receiving more attention and funding. This can also increase the capacities of CSOs to engage in dissemination and draw attention to the valuable contributions they can make to implementation.
The intervention is expected to contribute to this by strengthening the global framework for CSOs working towards local sustainable energy solutions that reduce poverty, particularly within the International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE).
This is of particular importance in the regions where this project intervention will take place, including regions with the highest proportion of people without adequate access to basic energy (South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa) and with large inequalities ( Latin America).
So far, the members of the project have participated in the realization of webinars aimed especially at young people in the region, both in planning (selection of target audience, calendar diagram, updating of technical knowledge and research and compilation of appropriate material, delivery of summary of the material to the participants, among others) as in the execution of the virtual webinars and the interventions of presenters at home, one of them. Subsequently, a balance was made for each webinar, which was brought to the participants and discussed in the regional coordination meetings. Regional investigations were monitored with particular attention to what was produced by international organizations.
Also, we were participating in the RCOY 2023 declaration process, where local solutions in distributed energy could be drafted and put on the agenda.
This does not end here, we must continue to advocate for the implementation of an agenda that considers local solutions as a fundamental pillar of climate plans.