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MAIN GOALS - GENERAL ACTIVITIES - FIELD OF EXPERTISES
Geres is an international NGO headquartered in France. Just energy transition, climate change mitigation and adaptation, reducing energy poverty, and improving livelihood of the most vulnerable are the primary focus areas for Geres. Climate and energy crises are inextricably linked to social, economic, gender, and geopolitical inequalities. Those who suffer the most severe consequences are also those who have contributed the least to them. In light of this, we promote energy transition and climate solidarity - based on differentiated responsibility – to leverage social and climate justice.
Our activities are implemented by a multidisciplinary team of energy specialists, environmentalists, agricultural economists, climate change specialists, urban planners who devote their expertise to building sustainable solutions, integrating human, social, economic and territorial dimensions. Geres conducts energy efficiency programs, provides decentralized energy services for local economic development, and supports energy transition.
ACTIVITY RELATED TO LOW GHG AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND RESILIENT BUILDINGS
We implement energy-efficient and low-cost construction and renovation solutions for housing, community/public infrastructure and productive use buildings across Europe, Mediterranean, West Africa, South-East Asia and Central Asia. Our projects are designed to address the imperatives of climate mitigation and adaptation in the built environment sector. Our approach is based on the following principles:
- • Focus on the existing housing and building stock, and incremental approaches
- • Stimulate multi-stakeholder, eco-systemic, and cross-sector collaboration
- • Include user communities, user expertise and knowledge, capacity building, empowerment particularly of vulnerable groups
- • Facilitate the energy transition: managing energy demand, promoting development with a view to social justice and fair access to energy services
- • Promote affordable, accessible and locally-led solutions integrating all stakeholders (user communities, residents, craftsmen and women, policy-makers and local governments, built environment and energy professionals, entrepreneurs, CSOs and CBOs,…)
- • Localize the climate approach and goals combining different levels of intervention, public action and impact measurement
