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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First Climate Change and Development for Africa (CCDA-I) Conference
This conference, held between October 17-19, 2011 at the UNECA in Addis Ababa, had the theme ‘Development First: Addressing Climate Change in Africa’. It aimed at strengthening Africa’s position and…
EfD researchers attended UNU-WIDER/AERC Climate Change Training
After pursuing an online course for three weeks, Dr. Zenebe Gebreegziabher and Abebe Damte from EfD Ethiopia, attended a five-days training on Climate Change Science and Modeling of Biophysical…
EfD workshop on impact of climate change in Africa
Over 60 representatives from various governmental and non-governmental organizations participated in this informative Climate Change Workshop organized together by EEPFE and EDRI on July 20. Ethiopian…
Climate change to reduce average income of Ethiopia by about 30 percent within the next 50 years
Press release from Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011-07-20 Agriculture, particularly rain-fed agriculture, is likely to be affected by climate change…
Climate conventions should consider early onset of climate change in Africa
Press release from Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011-07-20 Though climate change is a global problem, it affects countries differently because of lack of…
Crop-livestock inter-linkages and climate change implications on Ethiopia’s agriculture
Press release from Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011-07-20 Even if the mixed crop-livestock farming is a dominant farming style in Ethiopia, most of the…
Harnessing climate finances for sustainable development in Africa
Press release from Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011-07-20 Africa has benefited too little from climate finances as compared to other continents with…
How should Africa use the carbon market?
Press release from Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011-07-20 Climate change is a serious threat to Africa, in general, and sub-Saharan Africa, in particular…
What do policymakers know about the factors influencing people’s well-being?
Press release from Environmental Economics Unit, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2011-05-13 Most people would probably agree that quality of life means more than just…