EfD Ethiopia, hosted at the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) in Addis Ababa held a launching workshop on a research project “Rural Household, Agriculture and Climate Change – why and how…
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.
Last month, the co-leaders of SETI, Marcela Jaime and Marc Jeuland, alongside investigators Arjan de Haan, Mairi Dupar, Jonathan Phillips, Bhim Adhikari and Flaubert Mbiekop; released a policy brief…
More than three billion people globally rely on biomass fuels, such as coal, charcoal, and firewood for cooking and heating. The problems associated with this use have been known for decades, but…
Over the last three decades, agricultural and industrial sector workers have suffered consumption losses due to temperature rise while those in the services sector saw consumption increases. This article discusses the broad range of impacts of climate change across sectors and highlights the stark rise in inequality of household consumption due to increased temperature variability. It emphasises the need for social protection schemes, and data on the economic impacts of climate change to aid the design of adaptation policies.
Lake Victoria is a transboundary natural resource, underpinning the economies and livelihoods of the population of Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda. However, the lake and its surrounding…
Uganda’s participants in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) in practice program 2023/24 have been introduced at a function held at Makerere University. This cohort will focus on the problems related to…
