Duke Household Energy and Health Initiative is organizing a three-day workshop on Sustainable Energy Transitions in Developing and Emerging Economies, to be held from April 25-27, 2016 at Duke…
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: Resource economists from seven countries met in Cape Town this April, in an effort to find a common method for calculating the value of urban green spaces, such as parks…
Thomas Sterner, professor of environmental economics at School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg , has been ranked nr 9 of the most 101 influential opinion leaders in Sweden for…
Climate aid promises to simultaneously reduce climate effects and combat poverty. Yet, to secure such double dividends, improved evaluations of the current aid interventions are needed. A key…
The Annual World Bank Conference on land and poverty took place in Washington DC, USA on March 14-18. This year´s theme was: Scaling up responsible land governance. EfD was well represented during the…
EfD was presented as a solution model for working towards the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals when the SDSN Northern Europe was launched on February 25-26. Particularly the Ethiopian EfD center…
A workshop for researchers and decision makers organized by the Environment for Development Initiative in Tanzania (EfDT) on 29 th February, 2016 was of great interest and success. The aim of the…
Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) presented its five-year research plan and program to stakeholders at a consultative workshop in…
Local economics researchers have hailed the announcement this month that the City of Cape Town will reverse a decision to sell a section of the Princess Vlei wetland near Diep River to developers, who…
Academic research made a real connection with the lives of poor residents of Nairobi, Kenya, when the Nairobi City Water and Sewer Company’s decreased the price for water bought at public kiosks. “It…