JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: When a touring group of 289 mountain bikers needs to cross legally from Botswana into Zimbabwe, and then South Africa (SA), far from any official border posts, it means…
Professor Thomas Sterner gave a keynote speech at a symposium at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana on April 18, to help interpret Pope Francis’ Encyclical “in care of our common home.” The keynote…
The EfD Initiative is pleased to announce its partnership with Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in organizing the Green Growth Knowledge Platform’s ( GGKP) Fourth Annual Conference on the theme…
Leading household energy experts gathered at Duke University in April for discussions on household energy transitions and the global energy access. The first Sustainable Energy Transition Initiative…
WORCESTER, SOUTH AFRICA: If the South African government gives the green light for private energy companies to begin extracting shale gas using the method of hydrological fracturing, or ‘fracking’…
EfD Central America Director Francisco Alpizar was interviewed on national radio to reflect on Earth Day, and what actions are urgent under this celebration. Dr. Alpizar quotes: “The main challenge…
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: Tanzanian households, who are heavily dependent on small-holder and often subsistence farming for their livelihoods, benefit from the free ecosystem services offered by wild…
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: Nature can help to purify the water we drink. When a forest upstream of a water treatment plant is intact and healthy, the water arriving in the plant can be of better quality…
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: Resource economists from seven countries met in Cape Town this April, in an effort to find a common method for calculating the value of urban green spaces, such as parks…
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: A working group of resource economists met in Cape Town this April to agree on the methods they will use in order to contribute to the development of a standardised national…