On World Food Day, over 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organisations from across the globe have come together to release the Peoples’ Manifesto on the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition. The Manifesto calls for urgent political action to end the use of starvation as a weapon of war, address food insecurity, combat inequality, and transform global food systems.
In a historic step forward in the fight for a fair and effective international tax system, States have overwhelmingly voted to adopt the terms of reference for the UN Tax Convention, the mandate for the new global tax rules. The vote took place on Friday 16 August at the UN Headquarters in New York.
In its commitment to addressing the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, SID has co-signed a Statement on Biodiversity Offsets and Credits, together with over 200 signatories, to call on governments and other actors to stop the promotion, development and use of biodiversity crediting, offsetting, and related trading schemes.
On 21 June, SID co-organized, together with other civil society partners, a side event to the 56th session of the Human Rights Council. Panelists discussed a new report analyzing civil society engagement in UN fora, and proposed ways forward to promote the protagonism of people and grassroots organizations.
The Society for International Development, in partnership of the Heinrich Boll Foundation and Strathmore Energy Research Centre, invites the public to register and the attend the upcoming hybrid Public Energy Futures Forum, under the theme, 'Nuclear Energy for Climate Change Mitigation', scheduled for Tuesday 29 October 2024, 1400 t0 1700hrs (EAT Nairobi).
Join the conversations and insights from the panel of speakers at the continental agency level as we review negotiations of the Pact for the Future and map how those align with the aspirations of the AU Agenda 2063; and contribute to our mapping of what Africa’s future might look like post-Summit of the Future.
It’s ‘all systems go’ for the curation of the Sustainable Energy Futures for Tanzania Report. This follows a successful consultative research workshop organized by the Sustainable Energy Futures (SEF) Project team, with the support of Heinrich Boll Foundation, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 27 August.
This context paper describes Tanzania’s energy mix today, and the energy choices facing its society. It also addresses energy investments in the country towards reducing energy poverty and improving the wellbeing of Tanzanian citizens, the consequences of the energy choices made today and outlines a research agenda highlighting important thematic areas and energy topics that require thorough research to be compiled under the Sustainable Energy Futures Tanzania Report.
