At the press conference on December 31, 2023 to its headquarters, Friends of the Earth-Togo (ADT-Togo), in front of an audience of journalists, launched the 2023 Energy Transition Funds (ETF) Project. As a prelude to launching the project, the’ organization to through the project coordinator Mr. ASSEM Ekue, presented; reporters the results of the ETF Project 2022 activities, titled: Resisting the Dirty Energy System: A Collective Approach to Just Energy Transition. To the women and men of the media, Mr. ASSEM indicated; that in 2022, ADT-Togo initiated an advocacy that has strengthened the dialogue between the communities likely to be affected by a possible exploitation of oil in Togo and the public administration. He added that the fishermen of Doévikopé, Gbétsogbé and Katanga also submitted an advocacy document to the Director of Fisheries during the meeting with the latter on July 6, 2022. to inform its interlocutors that actors of the society civil society, journalists and communities, have been made aware of the impacts of fossil fuels, the need for move towards renewable energies and the just energy transition. The awareness-raising activities took place during the forum on renewable energies and the just energy transition in Togo, organized on August 11, 2022, at Atakpamé, on September 1st, 2022, at Sokodé, as well as during the public conference on fossil fuels held on November 25, 2022, at; Lome. Some key findings having resulted from of EFT 2022 have been presented to journalists at know: - community meetings as frameworks for exchanges, awareness-raising and raising awareness on the impacts of fossil fuels and the expected benefits of renewable energies, - mobilization and community engagement s concerned with resist fossil fuel extraction in Togo, - the will manifesto of the actors abovementioned at accompany and to work with Friends of the Earth-Togo, to partner with; his activity advocacy with decision-makers to move towards a just energy transition in Togo. As for; Phase II of the project: Community mobilization for a just energy transition, the project coordinator said that its implementation will find approaches to solutions < /strong>problems communities are currently facing, including rising sea levels causing coastal erosion.
Finally, he insisted; on the need to continue the campaign against fossil fuels known as dirty energies, especially since they are the main cause of climate change.
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