Sustainable Energy Futures Project
The Sustainable Energy Futures Project informs the understanding of energy developments through scenarios-based research and dissemination.
Society for International works on Energy, Environment and Climate Justice, with a focus on the just transition, sustainable energy and the nexus between climate and finance.
By fostering dialogue, informing policies, and challenging conventional practices, this initiative is driving transformative change towards a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient energy future for all East Africans.
Our commitment to advancing sustainable energy and climate action in East Africa guides all of our work. The team is making significant strides towards building a better future for the region, where access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy is a reality for all.
The Sustainable Energy Futures Project informs the understanding of energy developments through scenarios-based research and dissemination.
Leveraging on the success of youth engagement at the Africa Climate Summit, SID sort partnerships with other likeminded organizations, to forge and advance implementation options for youth engagements in climate at the global arena - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP28), hosted in Dubai, UAE on November 30, to December 13, 2023.
The analysis emerging from this initiative and the three scenarios deduced presented challenge to us to imagine different ways the region might meet its energy needs in the period towards 2050 within a context of complex political and economic transitions coupled with looming ecological and climate limits.
Watch our Public Energy Futures Dialogues covering various topics in the Energy, Environment and Climate nexus
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.
On Monday 22 July 2024, SID, in partnership with Heinrich Boll Foundation, hosted the Sustainable Energy Futures Project public virtual workshop under the theme ‘Energy Policy & Dilemmas of a Just Transition'.
Kenya’s Compendium of Energy explores the details of today’s energy challenges in one country, using statistical graphs, diagrams and photographs as illustrations.