International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE) is a network of civil society organisations. Since 1992, INFORSE and its members have worked for sustainable energy to reduce climate and environmental impacts of energy and at the same time provide sustainable energy for poverty reduction and development. With our experiences from many parts of the world, we have in INFORSE identified key climate solutions and pathways that also take into account local energy needs to address poverty for the more than one billion people that are still trapped in it.

We see the UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST) as an important process to identify and close the gaps in national climate plans to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, including pursuing efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. Together the current nationally determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, fall short of meeting the Paris Agreements goals, the temperature goal as well as the finance goal. Thus, it is important that the GST is used as a vehicle to identify additional actions that can increase the ambitions and close these glaring gaps in meeting the Paris Agreement Goals. read more here