A collective adventure in search of a better life together, respecting natural resources and a necessary solidarity to reinvent, ENERGIES 2050 calls for the involvement of all citizens in the world for the setting up of a new shared development model to be collectively imagined.

Each of the citizens, while wishing to be involved in the debate whether energy, climate, or that it more generally concerns the re-questioning of our development trajectories, felt helpless in view of the magnitude of the task … while regretting not always possessing sufficient knowledge to act in total lucidity against models and affirmations presented as postulates that can not be questioned.

Each of the experts, while having participated in the development of knowledge and the implementation of concrete actions in his respective field, knew that he could not meet the scale of the challenges and what he was doing, still indispensable, was not sufficient.

The only certainty for all of us was that the emergence of a new development model carried with it many and many issues that needed to be addressed simultaneously, what we call the Great Transition, under penalty of imbalance any possible collective construction.

ENERGIES 2050 has been an international exchange network since October 2009. After this informal operation, the founding members decided to give a new dynamic to this collective adventure and, on April the 20th 2011, ENERGIES 2050 was officially launched.

ENERGIES 2050 is a non-profit association governed by the French law of July the 1st 1901, the decree of Agust the 16st August 1901 and the texts currently in force.

ENERGIES 2050 is statutorily and, by virtue of its social objective, an NGO – an International Non-Governmental Organization – taking into account its scope of intervention without restriction to any particular geographical area. The official declaration of creation was made at the sub-prefecture of Grasse (06), France, on April the 22th 2011 and gave rise to registration in the register of associations under number W061002467. The publication in the Official Journal was made on June the 4th 2011.

ENERGIES 2050 is a registered trademark since May the 4th 2011 under the number INPI 11 3 828 671 (National Institute of Industrial Property) in accordance with the Intellectual Property Code.

It’s in a dense, and sometimes brutal, international reality, with a multiplication of warning signals and in the context of repeated social, economic and environmental crises that the stakes of sustainable development, the fight against climate change and energy issues take on a particular dimension and challenge each one of us about our individual lifestyles and the models that our societies have put in place.

Conscious of the impact of our socio-economic and energy choices on the climate issue and on the development trajectories of our societies, ENERGIES 2050 is convinced that the solution can not simply be a question of knowledge or tools and still less only political, economic, technological or social.

The transformation of our societies can not be accomplished without decompartmentalizing knowledge and without putting the debate in a global perspective. That is why, more than ever, we must studying their interdependencies in order to make them comprehensible to all citizens.

The association intervenes in France and abroad by advocating the systemic of development for a Great Transition: Energy, social, economic transition, etc. But also a movement toward a more humane society respectful of the common goods of mankind.

Conscious of the necessary solidarity to be promoted among the citizens of the world, ENERGIES 2050 decided to place its approach in an international framework and more particularly the decisions of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or international, regional and national agreements on energy, the environment or climate change, while giving priority to local action in order to apply the results of its research in practice.