New project on Electricity access in Ethiopia
Researchers at the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) based at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) have been awarded research funding for a project entitled “Impacts and Drivers of Policies…
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Countries can move faster towards a carbon tax
On 13 November, Thomas Sterner and his American colleagues published the article "Policy sequencing toward decarburization", in the prestigious journal Nature Energy . "This is a carefully nuanced…
Clean and reliable energy is the key to sustainable development
Clean and reliable energy is a “golden thread” in sustainable development, according to experts who gathered at the EfD Policy Day Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 26, 2017. Kicking off…
Need for improved reliability of electricity supply in Ethiopia
Energy is arguably one of the major challenges in developing countries. Much research has been done on energy production, consumption and access, however energy reliability has been given less focus.
Chilean EfD Researchers will have a large presence in the 9th Annual Meeting of SOCHER in Chillán, Chile
NENRE researchers: Marcela Jaime, Carlos, Chávez, Jorge Dresdner and Miguel Quiroga will attend the 9th Annual Meeting of Chilean Society of Regional Studies (SOCHER). The meeting will take place in…
Chilean EfD center is organizing Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Short Course to Policy Makers
Research Nucleus in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Concepción is organizing the Fifth Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 5 th and 6 th October…
Scholars and practitioners gathered at Duke University to discuss global energy access
Duke welcomed over 70 scholars and practitioners from 15 countries for the second annual Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) Meeting, May 9-11, 2017. The three-day event kicked off with a…
First annual conference on Ethiopia’s Green Development Path
On April 25th opened the first Annual Conference on Ethiopia’s Green Development Path. The aim of the annual conference is to create an effective forum for policy makers, researchers, and…
Request for concept notes to develop collaborative multi-site research projects
SETI ( http://seti.duke.edu/) invites concept notes to seed collaborative research related to energy transitions. We particularly welcome proposals for work related to the SETI priority themes…
Upcoming SETI workshop will be held at Duke University, May 9-11, 2017
We are very pleased to announce that the second meeting of the Sustainable Energy TransitionsInitiative (SETI) will take place May 9-11 at Duke University (Durham, NC). We encourage submissionsof…