Group for the Environment, Renewable Energy and Solidarity

Group for the Environment, Renewable Energy and Solidarity (GERES) is an international development NGO set up in Marseille in 1976.The Groupement pour l'Exploitation Rationnelle de l'Energie Soldaire (Group for the Rational Use of Solar Energy) was founded on 14 September 1976,[citation needed] following the first oil crisis, at the initiative of teachers/researchers working with Georges Peri.Its aim was to put researchers and professionals in touch in order to develop solar energy solutions.[citation needed] As an organisation specialising in sustainable and renewable energies, climate change[1] and environmental protection, GERES works for an energy transition, along with natural resource conservation and improved living conditions for local people, both in Europe and in the developing world.It is present in a dozen or so countries working alongside local development actors around five core themes:
Marseillerenewable energiesenergy transitionEuropeWest AfricaCentral AsiaSoutheast Asiaenergy efficiencyclimate change