Webinar: Deloitte Climate & Sustainability Competency Lab 2025
Organisers: Deloitte and EAERE
Date & Location: January 30, 2025 (remote)
Description: Businesses are increasingly required to transform, facing the challenge of complying with what is needed while also opening a path for new opportunities. The landscape companies operate in is extremely complex, which calls for adequate knowledge and tools. In this Webinar, the DCS Competency Lab focused on "Evolving landscape of food systems policies: how shifting policies are transforming the agrifood sector".
Conference: Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia: Connecting the dots across systems (D4N2024)
Organisers: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), together with CGIAR and a range of co-hosts
Date & Location: December 3-5, 2024 in Colombo, Sri Lanka (remote)
Description: South Asia grapples with escalating levels of malnutrition in various forms, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies, alongside increasing incidence of diet-related non-communicable diseases. Malnutrition results from a complex interplay of factors incorporating household and individual decision-making, agriculture and food systems, healthcare services, education, and socio-ecological systems that determine access to services and resources, and related policy processes. This conference brought together experts, practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders from diverse sectors to explore the multifaceted linkages between nutrition and its determinants.
Summer School: EU Summer School in European Environmental Taxation and Policies 2.0 (EU-SUSEET 2.0)
Organisers: Law Department of the University of Naples Federico II
Date & Location: September 9-14, 2024 in Naples (Italy)
Description: SUSEET 2.0 has been designed to provide participants with suitable expertise on environmental taxation and policies, useful both for the construction of an academic career and for a professional one, contributing to the creation of a new generation of European environmental tax lawyers and economists. It will provide the occasion for participants from all over the world to discuss with eminent professors and experts working in these fields.
Webinar: Green Industry Special Economic Zones to Catalyze Renewable Energy Manufacturing: Translating Vision to Investments
Organisers: Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
Date & Location: September 12, 2024 in Madrid (remote)
Description: Organized in partnership with Project Evergreen, this third webinar in the Africa Renewable Energy Manufacturing Initiative (REMI) South-South Virtual Policy Dialogue Series will deep-dive into how Special Economic Zones are serving as an industrial policy tool to attract investments in renewable energy manufacturing. It will convene representatives from government, SEZ leadership, industry and financing institutions to identify key actions needed to translate visions into investments, including on infrastructure development, trade policy and incentive design, investment mobilization and demand creation policies.
Workshop: Introduction to Measuring Health System Efficiency: A Focus on Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Organisers: KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, AfHESG, & HERU
Date & Location: August 30, 2024 (Remote)
Description: This is a lecture on using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) in measuring health system efficiency. It compasses both theoretical and practical sessions using STATA. The aim is to build researchers on how to efficiently measure efficiency in the health system and also extend applications into other fields. The Africa Health Economics Study Group (AfHESG) is a study group within the KEMRI - Wellcome Trust (a world-renowned health research unit of excellence) coordinated by the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU).
Special Course: Food Prices for Nutrition: Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet and other Indicators
Organisers: World Bank Group - Open Learning Campus
Description: This Food Prices for Nutrition self-paced eLearning course trains users on the construction of diet cost and affordability indicators which focus on access to a healthy diet and other dietary standards. The course covers how these indicators are constructed at the global level using the methodology produced by Food Prices for Nutrition and the nutritional concepts underlying this approach, including the use of a global standard reference of a Healthy Diet Basket as well as national food-based dietary guidelines. It also covers the data inputs and sources used in the construction of the indicators, and their interpretation and application. In doing so, the course equips users with the knowledge and tools to construct similar indicators at the national or regional level, taking account of each population’s local food availability and eating habits, and to apply these indicators in national policy making. The course also introduces the Food Prices for Nutrition partnership and its objective to provide globally-comparable metrics to monitor people’s access to healthy diets and inform relevant policy interventions focused on achieving food and nutrition security.
Webinar: State of the Global Mini-Grids Market 2024
Organisers: Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
Description: This State of the Market report aims to raise awareness of mini-grids, mobilise investment in the mini-grid sector and serve as a benchmark to allow decision makers to measure progress in the sector. The report provides the latest updates on the global mini-grid market and highlights key trends in the industry that, together, can stand as the definitive source of information for stakeholders. This State of the Market report on mini-grids is a significant addition to the current array of studies, distinguished by its unique bottom-up methodology.