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.
For the World Bank’s 2024 Land Conference, SID joins organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society to denounce the World Bank as a major actor of land grabbing and ecosystem destruction. We call for effective measures to realize the right to land and territories, including agrarian reform.
We urge Ministers to ensure that the outcome of negotiations on overfishing and overcapacity subsidies appropriately targets those historically responsible, safeguards small-scale fishers from subsidy prohibitions, refrains from WTO interference in conservation measures, and respects countries' sovereign rights under UNCLOS.
SID joins the Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism in expressing its deep concerns on the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact and its governance and policy implications.
In response to the persistent short-sighted language within the final draft of the Ministerial Declaration, the Food & Agriculture Thematic Cluster has released a statement to call for systemic solutions through multilateral and coordinated policy processes within the CFS.
