À nous la souveraineté énergétique, tout de suite !

The document presents a manifesto for a 'just transition' of the energy system, arguing that the current capitalist model drives ecological collapse and social inequality. It advocates for energy to be treated as a common good rather than a commodity, calling for a shift toward 100% renewable energy through small-scale, decentralized, and community-managed technologies. The manifesto emphasizes 'energy sufficiency,' demanding a drastic reduction in overconsumption in the Global North to allow for equitable access to energy in the Global South. It links climate justice to broader social struggles, including feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements, and calls for the redirection of public funds—such as military spending and taxes on the wealthy—toward a people-centered energy revolution.

• The current economic model of resource extraction and distribution has led to biodiversity collapse, the climate crisis, and extreme inequalities between and within countries.
• Energy should be treated as a common good and a fundamental human right rather than a commodity for corporate profit.
• There is a severe imbalance in global energy consumption, where the richest 10% of the population produce the same amount of carbon emissions as the rest of the world combined, and the richest 1% emit as much as the poorest 3.5 billion people.
• A transition to 100% renewable energy requires the immediate abandonment of all new polluting energy projects globally, including fossil fuels, nuclear energy, mega-dams, industrial biofuels, industrial biomass, and waste-to-energy incineration.
• The most equitable and rapid path to 100% renewable energy is through the deployment of small-scale, decentralized technologies managed by communities and municipalities under democratic control.
• Wealthy Northern countries bear a colossal historical responsibility for climate change and must provide funding for climate policies through mechanisms such as redirecting military spending, fair taxation of the wealthy, and the abolition of tax havens.
• A just transition must protect the rights and livelihoods of millions of workers in the energy, transport, and agricultural sectors, ensuring that new jobs provide strong unionization and collective organization opportunities.
• Climate justice is inseparable from social justice and requires the dismantling of structural oppressions, including patriarchy, racism, and classism, while recognizing the disproportionate impact of climate change on women.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (n.d.). À nous la souveraineté énergétique, tout de suite ! https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/14-FoEI-PPN-manifesto-summary-A5-12-pager-FR-lr-hyperlinks.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. À nous la souveraineté énergétique, tout de suite ! n.d. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/14-FoEI-PPN-manifesto-summary-A5-12-pager-FR-lr-hyperlinks.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternationalndnous, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{À nous la souveraineté énergétique, tout de suite !}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/14-FoEI-PPN-manifesto-summary-A5-12-pager-FR-lr-hyperlinks.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }