Title: Equity is the Gateway to Climate Action
Date: Monday, 3rd December, 2018, 18:30 – 20:00
Venue: Bug Room, COP24, Katowice, Poland
Organizers: The South Centre and the Third World Network
Title: Discussions on the Appellate Body crisis at the WTO
Date and Time: Wednesday, 28th November, 2018
Venue: South Centre, Geneva
Organizer: The South Centre
History and Politics of Climate Change Adaptation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
By Harjeet Singh and Indrajit Bose
This research paper provides a perspective on how climate change adaptation has progressed in the multilateral space, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It describes adaptation and financial institutions under the climate regime and the current scope of their activities. The paper highlights the challenges that lie ahead, particularly around financing, for developing countries to adapt to a rapidly warming world and presents recommendations for the governments to accord higher priority to adaptation.
Assessment of South-South Cooperation and the Global Narrative on the Eve of BAPA+40
By Yuefen LI
This research paper gives a brief account of the fast expansion of South-South cooperation (SSC) in volume, modalities and participating countries and institutions. Though SSC is a de facto development compact, there is a tendency to overstate the total concessional financial element of SSC compared to Official Development Assistance (ODA), as SSC constitutes only a small portion of the total ODA from traditional donors. North-South cooperation (NSC) is still the dominant pillar of development finance; hence SSC needs to be regarded as a complement to and not a substitute for NSC. (more…)
Title: Negotiation Dynamics of the WTO – An Insider’s Account by Mohan Kumar
Date and Time: Thursday, 15 November 2018, 17:00-19:00
Venue: Julius Nyerere Room, The South Centre, Geneva
Organizers: South Centre, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Title: Working Lunch on Agriculture (Export competition)
Date and Time: Friday, 9th November 2018, 13:00-15:00
Venue: South Centre, Geneva
Organizer: The South Centre
Title: Breakfast Meeting for Ambassadors of the Group of 77 and China
Launch of Project: A Public Health Approach to Intellectual Property Rights
Date and Time: 9 November 2018, 9-10 AM
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Room Méditerranée – Benelux, First Floor
Organizers: South Centre
Stemming ‘Commercial’ Illicit Financial Flows & Developing Country Innovations in the Global Tax Reform Agenda
By Manuel F. Montes, Daniel Uribe and Danish
Illicit Financial Flows generated due to the commercial activities of multinational enterprises are quantitatively the most important challenge faced by developing countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Current efforts for stemming these illicit flows and reforming the international tax system are however being led by developed countries, with developing country interests poorly reflected in the reform agenda. This research paper highlights the tax issues of great priority for developing countries and how international tax cooperation can contribute to preventing such illicit flows.
South-South Cooperation: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Realities
By Sachin Chaturvedi
Drawing on the heterogeneity and pluralities among the practitioners of South-South Cooperation (SSC), this article argues against any effort to develop a uniform structure of methodological and accounting approaches to capture its nuances. It further elaborates the importance of sectoral interventions in a mission mode that lies at the core of SSC interventions, unlike the project mode approach pursued under the official development assistance (ODA) framework. Underscoring the recent discussions in the literature that the world is moving towards a multiplex that would have no hegemonistic role for any nation, but would simultaneously preserve cultural and political diversity, it calls for moving beyond the idea of “Government to Government” approach to a more democratic process of “people-centric” cooperation. It concludes with the important role that think-tanks from the South are expected to play in strengthening SSC. (more…)
Title: Regional Conference on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
Date: 5-7 November 2018
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Organizers: South Centre and ReAct Africa
Title: Reforms and Alternatives for the Future of the International Investment Treaty Regime; Views for the Way Forward
Date and Time: Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 12:30-14:30
Venue: Room XXII of the Palais des Nations
Organizer: The South Centre
Statement by His Excellency Thabo Mbeki on the occasion of the meeting of the Board of the South Centre
Below is the statement of His Excellency Thabo Mbeki, former President of the Republic of South Africa, and new Chair of the Board of the South Centre, upon conclusion of the 41st meeting of the Board of the South Centre, held on 11 October 2018 at the South Centre in Geneva.
