The EfD-Central America presented on March 23th, the seminar "Consequences of Copenhagen: What are the challenges and opportunities?" This was the fist seminar in a series given in Spanish, and hence…

A platform for exchange between policy makers and academics South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) co-hosted and co-sponsored the 2010…

“To do high-quality research, you need to find out what policy makers need and nurture the interaction,” says Maria Angelica Naranjo, EfD researcher in Central America. Her research colleagues Roger…

Land reforms have played a central role in the political economy of many countries and have been subject to massive disagreements between different political interest groups and ideologies. In a new…

The Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg has a long history of support for PhD candidates from developing countries. The purpose of this Sida-financed PhD programme is to strengthen…

The Environmental Economics Unit at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, has been granted 23 million SEK (2.3 million Euro) from Sida and 3.5 million SEK (0,35 million…

Press release from Environmental Economics Unit, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2009-12-18 The Environmental Economics Unit at the School of Business, Economics and…

Income induced diet changes, increased demand for biofuels, and climatic changes have already caused food price increases and consequent deforestation. At one of today´s COP15 side event researchers…

For ten years he has pointed to forests as a major asset for sustainable development in China. Finally and just in time for the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, China’s national…

"Differences in income levels means that different countries have very different views on what is a fair allocation of emissions and abatement requirements" says Thomas Sterner, Professor of…