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Preliminary program - EfD's Annual Meeting

A preliminary program for EfD's Annual Meeting in Ghana on October 5-8 is now available. You find it…

Portrait: Ximena Rueda

“I believe that the most valuable asset of women is solidarity” Meet Ximena Rueda, EfD Colombia…

Join the plenary sessions online!

The EfD Annual Meeting features no less than seven keynote presentations and they will all be…

Air pollution in Beijing. Sept 2008. Photo by:Allen Watkin. Wikimedia Commons.

Optimal tax for heterogenous cement industry entails abatement and health costs

The cement industry in China is a great air polluter and its production accounts for 60% of global…

Boot camp August 2023, participants from Tanzania. Photo: EfD Tanzania.

Boot camp training on data analysis with multiple inputs

EfD Tanzania Researchers attended a comprehensive training on modern methods for analyzing the…

EfD Nigeria trains fish farmers on best practices

Over 178 aquaculture farmers from two cooperative societies in Delta State, Nigeria, benefited from…

Conservation comes with difficult trade-offs

Managing trade-offs and finding a win-win between communities’ welfare and conservation – that is…

Mauricio Oyarzo, President of SOCHER (Chile). Picture by EfD Initiative.

EfD Chile researcher elected President of the Chilean Society of Regional Studies

The Chilean Society of Regional Studies (SOCHER) active fellows has elected Mauricio Oyarzo…

Recent publications

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What drives the substitution of hazardous flame retardants in electronic appliances in Sweden?

Highlights We identify the relative importance of different drivers of firms’ preferences for chemical substitution. The…

18 Aug 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden, Global Hub

Gamification model for communicating and evaluating renewable energy planning

Most energy models used for policy analysis are too complex for non-experts. We propose an energy model and demonstrate…

27 Jul 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Decoupling in governance: the land governance network in a region of the Colombian Andes

Abstract Land governance requires coherence not only in terms of policies but also between its governance functions to…

18 Sep 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Gender, climate finance and inclusive low-carbon transitions

Climate change will have significant long-term impacts on people, ecosystems, and the global economy. To avoid…

23 Sep 2023 | Report |

Heterogeneity in Shadow Prices of water pollutants – A study of the seafood processing industry in Vietnam

Abstract This study examines the marginal abatement costs (MACs) of three water pollutants (BOD, COD, and TSS) in the…

23 Sep 2023 | EfD Discussion Paper | Vietnam

Is switching propulsion technologies the path to sustainable land transport? decarbonizing Bogotá

Abstract The climate crisis and poor urban air quality have put the transport sector decarbonization on the agenda for…

18 Sep 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Upcoming events

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FSR Climate Annual Conference 2023

27-28 November 2023, European University Institute, Italy The Climate Area of the FSR is pleased to…

DP-WEE virtual panel discussion on ‘Status and Rights of Platform and Gig Workers’

Tuesday 10 October — Tuesday 10 October, 2023

On behalf of Digital Platforms & Women's Economic Empowerment (DP-WEE), you are cordially invited to…

Hybrid Conference of the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE) 22-25 November 2023

Wednesday 22 November — Saturday 25 November, 2023

Hybrid Conference of the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE) 22-25…

Latest videos

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Water - a documentary by EfD Kenya

2 March 2023

The 16th EfD Annual Meeting, day 3. Policy talk by Haileselassie Medhin, WRI. Keynote by Pam Jagger

29 September 2022

The 16th EfD Annual Meeting, day 2, Keynote by Michael Hanemann - The economics of water. Part 2

29 September 2022

The 16th EfD Annual Meeting, day 2, Keynote by Michael Hanemann - The economics of water. Part 1

29 September 2022

Latest blog posts

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Preliminary program - EfD's Annual Meeting

Portrait: Ximena Rueda

Join the plenary sessions online!

Optimal tax for heterogenous cement industry entails abatement and health costs

Boot camp training on data analysis with multiple inputs

EfD Nigeria trains fish farmers on best practices

Conservation comes with difficult trade-offs

EfD Chile researcher elected President of the Chilean Society of Regional Studies

What drives the substitution of hazardous flame retardants in electronic appliances in Sweden?

Gamification model for communicating and evaluating renewable energy planning

Decoupling in governance: the land governance network in a region of the Colombian Andes

Gender, climate finance and inclusive low-carbon transitions

Heterogeneity in Shadow Prices of water pollutants – A study of the seafood processing industry in Vietnam

Is switching propulsion technologies the path to sustainable land transport? decarbonizing Bogotá

FSR Climate Annual Conference 2023

DP-WEE virtual panel discussion on ‘Status and Rights of Platform and Gig Workers’

Hybrid Conference of the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE) 22-25 November 2023

Water - a documentary by EfD Kenya

The 16th EfD Annual Meeting, day 3. Policy talk by Haileselassie Medhin, WRI. Keynote by Pam Jagger

The 16th EfD Annual Meeting, day 2, Keynote by Michael Hanemann - The economics of water. Part 2

The 16th EfD Annual Meeting, day 2, Keynote by Michael Hanemann - The economics of water. Part 1

Effects of climate shocks on sectoral inequality

How to reform the water sector in Ho Chi Minh city: Lessons from Phnom Penh

Bringing skilling and productive employment closer to women

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