Are carbon taxes the solution?
Thomas Sterner will discuss carbon taxes and other policies to deal with climate change as invited key-note speaker at the 15th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET15) which will take…
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Thomas Sterner elected to the Collège de France
Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg, has been elected as a visiting professor to the Collège de France, one of the world's most distinguished academic…
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Sweden
New Communication Officer Central-America
EfD Central America is pleased to introduce our new Communication Officer, Eugenia León. Eugenia is Research Fellow for the Environment Development Initiative for Central America (EfD-CA) at the…
Rural Electrification boost farmers’ earnings in Tanzania
Rural electrification has provided to be efficient driver in promoting value addition particularly of agricultural products that helped farmers to fetch premium market price. This note was reported by…
Mixed strategy farming may help beat climate change in SA
Agricultural policy in South Africa should support a mix of crop and livestock farming amongst subsistence farmers in order to make them more resilient to the impact of climate change. This is in…
Counting the value of the Kgalagadi’s natural resources
South African researchers have, for the first time, calculated what tourists are willing to pay as a way of compensating the San bushmen if they agree to limit their use of natural resources such as…
Semi-deserts are ‘treasures’ for rural poor
Far from being barren wastelands, drier parts of the country like the Kgalagadi are actually treasures for poor rural communities, who are heavily depend on the natural environment as an alternative…
South African park fees under spotlight at EfD meeting
In an effort to gauge the appropriate entrance and conservation fees for three southern African nature reserves, researchers associated with the University of Cape Town’s Environmental Policy Research…
How myopic oil and gas policies will doom Tanzania
University dons have warned over the risk of the current oil and gas industry development focusing on short term gains alone, saying such a trend might cause long term damage in terms of revenues…
EEPFE's Center Director and Senior Research Fellow Speaks at IPCC Outreach Event
EEPFE's Center Director and Senior Research Fellow, Alemu Mekonnen (Ph.D) was invited to present at an IPCC outreach event which was held on 18-19 August 2014 at UNCC, Addis Ababa. This was a workshop…
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Ethiopia