From today, December 2nd and for 10 days, Madrid is hosting a vital summit to decide our future and that of the planet: the United Nations Climate Change Summit 2019. Also known as COP25 , it is a unique opportunity to decide and implement real actions to combat the climate emergency. From Ecoserveis we will be present as an invited organization in the blue zone , as an organizer of the activities in the green zone and as a signatory of the Social COP .
Self-consumption and energy poverty
In the Blue Zone of the summit, Ecodes is organizing the workshop “ Social Innovation for SDG7: Alliances for Joint Action against Energy Poverty and Climate Change ”, in which we will be speakers and will delve into energy transition based on our experiences in energy poverty and self-consumption projects .
The objective of the workshop is to share innovative experiences that public administrations, companies and social entities are implementing to involve people in shared self-consumption programs, energy rehabilitation, energy management or social policies with the dual objective of combating energy poverty and climate change. The workshop will be held on December 5 at 11:20 am in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Pavilion .
Young people and the climate emergency. Actors for the climate
On Thursday, December 12 at 1:00 p.m. we will be at the Civil Society and Youth Forum, at IFEMA, where we are organizing the workshop “ Participation of young people in municipal policies ” with the Granollers City Council and within the framework of the activities of the European EYES Project , with the aim of analyzing how young people can influence the design and implementation of climate policies .
Young people, public and private entities interested in policy formulation and climate change will debate effective mechanisms to incorporate youth opinion into climate planning, reflect on the barriers that prevent their voice from being tangible and propose sustainable ideas to accommodate their concerns and take advantage of them when designing and implementing public policies related to the climate emergency.
Social COP. Beyond COP25
At Ecoserveis we understand that the actions taken to combat the climate emergency must take into account, in order to be effective, a change in the energy model. And this change is only possible by integrating the perspective of energy justice. The Social COP is a counter-summit organized by Youth for Climate (Fridays for Future) , 2020 Rebellion for Climate , Climate Alliance and Climate Emergency Alliance . This initiative gives visibility to those movements and groups that suffer the most from the impact of climate change and whose voices are not represented at COP25, with the aim of providing a space to demand that policies be implemented that truly mitigate climate change and promote the adaptation of the most vulnerable population.
From Ecoserveis we support the Social COP through our adherence to the manifesto of the Social Climate Summit . We thus join many other entities around the world in denouncing the false solutions that seek to maintain the status quo of the current production system and that distance themselves from real solutions, contributing to a series of inequalities that directly affect the most disadvantaged communities.
All these actions make up Ecoserveis’ participation in a Climate Summit that claims what we have known and practiced for too long: it is time to act .
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