Sustainable Energy Transitions - brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Sustainable Energy Transitions, with emphasis on gendered and intersectional aspects, lies at the core of a low carbon society. The implications of energy interventions, policies, and transitions is part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South. Aim: There is an urgent need to identify ways to overcome the challenges to inclusive and sustainable energy access in developing countries, so that a low-carbon transition will improve outcomes for women, youth, and other marginalized populations.

Climate Change, Energy, Policy Design

Infrastructure – brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Infrastructure, both hard (Transport) and soft (Digital), are considered catalysts of economic growth. The provision for low-carbon infrastructure, in light of public-private partnerships, 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, Urban

Building Human and Institutional Capacity – brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:

Assessment of individual, organizational, and institutional capacities is important to accelerate the pace of transition to a low-carbon economy. Human and Institutional Capacity 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

Enabling Policy Environment - brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Identifying policies and the corresponding actors, processes, and methods that enable the creation of a policy environment are important to put climate and low-carbon energy transition policies in motion. 

Enabling Policy Environment 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

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

Abundance of Resources and Incentives for Collusion in Fisheries

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on
EfD Authors:

The aim of this study is to explore theoretically the circumstances in which collusion can emerge between artisanal organizations and external agents. We also analyze theoretically how collusion can alter the sustainability equilibria of marine resources. In situations of incomplete information where external agents are not aware of the initial stock of resources, we observe how those agents decide whether to accept or reject offers of collusion from artisanal organizations.

Fisheries, Policy Design