EfD’s collaborative program Sustainable Energy Transition Initiative, SETI, had several activities at EfD’s Annual Meeting on September 22-26 in Kampala, Uganda. The question of how to achieve a…
Great hopes have been placed on devolution policies as a means of attaining sustainable forest management in developing countries.
Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders through improvements
in income and environmental services. However, despite their dominant landholding shares in many
countries, smallholders’ role in restoration has not been addressed in prior global or pan-tropical restoration
studies. We fill this lacuna by using global spatial data on trees and people, national indicators of enabling
conditions, and micro-level expert information. We find that by 2050, low-cost restoration is feasible within 280,
Professor Michael Hanemann urged economists to be empirical rather than theoretical when teaching and researching the economics of water when he made his keynote presentation at EfD’s Annual Meeting…
Policymakers in Uganda were urged to take measures to mitigate environmental degradation or else, risk facing serious consequences. The appeal was made during the opening of the 16th EfD Annual…
Zoom Inscripciones aquí| Register here Live transmission: https://youtu.be/5V5d8otQI1U This paper estimates the Brazilian Amazon’s carbon-efficient forestation -- i.e. when farmers internalize the…
The Environment for Development Kenya carried out a population survey to find out whether green measures for plastics, forest loss, and fossil fuels are socially acceptable. To spread the findings and…
A pilot activity that is part of the project called Diagnostic About the Possibilities to Develop the Green Infrastructure in the Caribbean and Pacific Coasts of Costa Rica, has been initiated in the…
As part of the IGE capacity-building program, the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) (EfD-Ethiopia) organized a second workshop on August 4, 2020. The objective of the workshop was to…