60 researchers from EfD and partner organizations worked intensely for a year and a half to develop a research agenda to support a low-carbon transition and gender equity in the Global South. This work was finished in the spring of 2023. All the reports are available on EfD’s website.

Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) funded this study to identify high-impact research areas and knowledge gaps. EfD with partners was selected to manage this extensive project with a budget of 1.2 million CAD.

Valuable for funders and researchers

“It identifies the most important research, needed for implementing a low-carbon transition in the Global South,” noted Bhim Adhikari, Senior Program Specialist at the funding partner IDRC. 

The overarching document, the High-level Research Agenda for Inclusive Low-Carbon Transitions for Sustainable Development in the Global South, ten papers that develop further on specific topics, and seven briefs are all open access and available on the project’s webpage. 

The papers include regional policy reviews from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa, as well as reports on gender equality, sustainable energy transition, infrastructure, forestry, enabling policy environment, mobilizing investment models, and human and institutional capacity. 

The briefs cover the topics of enabling policy, forestry, gender, human capacity development, infrastructure, climate finance, and sustainable energy transitions. 

“This is not only valuable to the donors such as IDRC but also to researchers,” said Gunnar Köhlin, Director of EfD.