SAIIA is pleased to announce that it has been invited to serve on the General Secretariat for the International Advisory Council of the Think20 Brazil, together with the Observer Research Foundation from India and the Institute for Economics and Social Research from the University of Indonesia.
Alex Benkenstein, head of SAIIA’s Climate and Natural Resources Programme, also serves as a co-lead on the subtheme “Operationalising climate justice through financing and technology transfer” in the Think20 Brazil task force on sustainable climate action and just energy transitions.
On 31 January SAIIA convened a policy roundtable with AUDA NEPAD and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) on African priorities for the G20 in 2024 and 2025. The meeting included the sous-sherpas of Brazil and South Africa, the deputy executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, among others, and members of the Think20 Africa Standing Group, of which SAIIA and IDOS are the convenors.