New rules for EfD 2015 proposal submissions
New deadline for EfD's 2015 proposal submission is June 1, 2014. All proposals must be presented in the respective EfD Center Workshops before submission. In the documents we submitted to Sida, we…
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Extensive media coverage of IPCC author
EfD fellow Thomas Sterner is one of the coordinating lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report entitled ‘Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change’ which was…
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Climate Change |
Sweden
Gothenburg Scientist in Nature: Climate Models Underestimate Costs to Future Generations
Future generations will have to pay more for today’s carbon emissions than what governments across the world currently understand. The climate models used by policymakers around the world to estimate…
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Climate Change |
Sweden
Climate Economics draws students from around the world to Gothenburg
During this spring term 33 students from 15 countries converge on the University of Gothenburg to attend specialization courses in Environmental and Climate Economics. They are taught by lecturers…
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Sweden
“We must be able to design the right environmental policies for Africa”
Justice Tei Mensah from Ghana says that two key strengths of the University of Gothenburg’s specialization course in natural resource economics distinguish this course from others of its kind:…
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Climate Change |
Sweden
IPCC Report: Pricing of CO2 Emissions Critical
Despite climate change, most polluters still pay little or nothing when they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 'A cost of SEK 1, or about USD 0.15, per kilo CO2 would be enough to solve the…
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Climate Change |
Sweden
Video lectures from PhD specialization courses available online
During the spring semester 2014, EfD Sweden will be publishing video recorded lectures from three PhD specialization courses held at University of Gothenburg, on the EfD website. This is the first…
External Evaluation of EfD
The University of Gothenburg has recently decided to procure EnvEcon Ltd (Economic and Environmental Decision-Support Systems and Solutions), to evaluate the Sida-financed activities of the…
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Sweden
Travel grant available for participating in the WCERE
Travel grants to the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) that will be taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, from June 28 to July 2, 2014. Thanks to the generosity of EAERE and…
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Sweden
The Nature of Economic Development and the Economic Development of Nature
This paper written by Sir Partha Dasgupta reviews and in part extends an emerging literature that integrates development and environmental thinking. It focuses on a small part of the literature…
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Policy Design |
Sweden