Fuel Taxes and the Poor - RFF/EfD book released
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor…
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Wildlife conservation can help poor communities survive
Press release in connection with EfD Policy Day Arusha, Tanzania, 27 October 2011 Wildlife is a vital economic asset in many parts of Southern Africa. Allowing poor communities in Southern Africa to…
University of Cape Town Students walk the talk in carbon trading
UCT students pile into a VC Beetle, demonstrating the importance of car pooling - and doing their best to limit their carbon footprint. Carbon emissions trading across international borders has been a…
EfD South African Center EPRU hosts the Cape Town Optimum Energy Future (OEF)
The Optimum Energy Future debate hosted by EPRU the 16th of August at the UCT School Economics was the opportunity to discuss with policy decision makers, academics and other relevant stakeholders the…
Sustainable and Responsible Investment taught in Development Finance
EfD-EPRU Research Associate Stephanie Giamporcaro lectured in March 2011 on Sustainable and Responsible Investment for the innovative Mphil in Development Finance launched recently by UCT Graduate…
Diamond revenues must improve infrastructure
A contribution of EfD/EPRU Research Fellow Edwin Muchapondwa to the policy debate in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s civil servants offer vital services to the nation and they deserve decent pay. Unfortunately…
Park Pricing Workshop in Zimbabwe completed
Optimal park pricing can help achieve sustainable park management in eastern and southern Africa. The EfD center in South Africa, EPRU, co-hosted the second park pricing workshop in Victoria Falls…
Adressing climate change through local leadership: a talk by Research Fellow Anthony Leiman
Anthony Leiman gave a talk on the economic value of the False Bay Ecology Park and the City of Cape Town nature reserves (including wetlands and green belt) at the conference Local Climate Solutions…
Putting a Price on Carbon in South Africa: exploring the potential of economic instruments to mitigate climate change
Kerri Brick, EfD research fellow, and Martine Visser, EfD research fellow and coordinator, presented a paper at the Putting a Price on Carbon Conference, held in Cape Town on 23 and 24 March, 2010…
What scope for environmentally responsible investment in South Africa?
Wednesday 31 March 2010, EfD/EPRU Researcher Dr Stephanie Giamporcaro presented to investors, media and fellow academics the findings of the report: Environmentally Responsible Investment in South…