Gender, climate finance and inclusive low-carbon transitions

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Climate change will have significant long-term impacts on people, ecosystems, and the global economy. To avoid catastrophic impacts, the world must mobilize finance at scale to deliver rapid and substantial low-carbon transitions across sectors and regions. Improving sustainable finance approaches and enhancing market alignment with this transition is crucial. Evidence shows that climate finance is not reaching those who need it most. Despite the significant climate risks faced by women and girls, only 2.3% of climate finance intends to principally support gender equality.

Climate Change, Gender, Policy Design

Behavioral Economics – Policy Impact and Future Directions

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Behavioral economics - a field based in collaborations among economists and psychologists - focuses on integrating a nuanced understanding of behavior into models of decision-making. Since the mid-20th century, this growing field has produced research in numerous domains and has influenced policymaking, research, and marketing. However, little has been done to assess these contributions and review evidence of their use in the policy arena.

Policy Design

Mobilizing new climate investment models – brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Increasing strategic and large-scale investments in low-and middle-income countries are required to ensure a just, equitable, and predictable low-carbon transition. Mobilizing Climate Investment Models is part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South. 

Policy Design

Gender - brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Addressing gender dimensions of the low carbon transition is core to ensuring a gendered transformative change that is more equitable. Gender equity is thus part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South. 

Aim: To ensure that research in support of an inclusive global low-carbon transition (LCT) takes into account gender dimensions in order to promote gender equity. 

Gender

Household electricity consumption inefficiency and poverty: Evidence from Ghana

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Key Messages 

Improvements in household electricity consumption resulting from efficiency improvements have the potential to reduce household electricity expenditure, and consequently the level of poverty among households. However, little is known about the extent to which improvement in electricity consumption efficiency can reduce poverty. Our study finds that: 

Climate Change, Energy, Policy Design