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As we edge closer to the half of this quarter, we invite you to keep tabs with some of our engagements through our thematic programmes as we share with you our first edition of the SID Africa newsletter. In this edition we apply back-casting to highlight our engagements in 2024, and how these lay the foundation of our work and shape the year ahead.
Dubbed as a ‘Finance COP’, this year’s conference was platformed to be the centre-stage of the governments establishing a new climate finance goal and mobilizing finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, the situation was not entirely as straight-forward at the close of the extensive two weeks in Baku, it was apparent that the outcomes was extensively invoking a poignant precedence.
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 Power Development in Kenya – A Low Carbon Solution or a High-Risk Gamble?' On Tuesday 3, December 2024, 1400 to 1700hrs (EAT Nairobi) at Daystar University, Nairobi Campus.
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.
The Local Conference of Youth on Climate in Kenya (LCOY Kenya) is an annual event under the auspices of YOUNGO, an official constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
About 80 percent of Kenya’s population is dependent on biomass, especially wood and charcoal, for basic energy needs. However, discussion about energy in Kenya is dominated by petroleum and electricity generation.
On Wednesday 21 August 2024 the Society for International Development (SID), in partnership with Heinrich Boll Foundation, through the Sustainable Energy Futures Project (SEF) hold a virtual Public Energy Futures Forum under the theme: Unpacking Clean Cooking Developments in Kenya - Challenges and opportunities.
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.