Are carbon taxes the solution?
Thomas Sterner will discuss carbon taxes and other policies to deal with climate change as invited key-note speaker at the 15th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET15) which will take…
Thomas Sterner will discuss carbon taxes and other policies to deal with climate change as invited key-note speaker at the 15th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET15) which will take…
Agricultural policy in South Africa should support a mix of crop and livestock farming amongst subsistence farmers in order to make them more resilient to the impact of climate change. This is in…
Policymakers need to take a cross-disciplinary approach to tackling South Africa’s twin challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as making pro-poor development choices for the…
The presentations on forest management reform research conducted by EfD in Tanzania, Ethiopia and China addressed major issues such as how effective the reforms are in preventing deforestation and…
A research project entitled “Adaptation to increase resilience to climate change in Ethiopian agriculture: empowering farmers to adopt the right water management technologies for their farms” is to be…
EfD fellow Thomas Sterner is one of the coordinating lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report entitled ‘Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change’ which was…
As part of the academic research seminar series being held at Addis Ababa University, in collaboration with the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE), a research seminar entitled…
Future generations will have to pay more for today’s carbon emissions than what governments across the world currently understand. The climate models used by policymakers around the world to estimate…
Justice Tei Mensah from Ghana says that two key strengths of the University of Gothenburg’s specialization course in natural resource economics distinguish this course from others of its kind:…
Despite climate change, most polluters still pay little or nothing when they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 'A cost of SEK 1, or about USD 0.15, per kilo CO2 would be enough to solve the…