This study shows that people are willing to pay more for certain technical and environmental features of electric vehicles. However, policy measures such as preferential parking rates have no significant value for the participants.
The climate targets agreed upon in the Paris Agreement will eventually need to be backed by ambitious climate policies. Putting a price on carbon and abolishing subsidies on fossil fuels is usually widely agreed upon by economists to be the economically efficient solution (High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices 2017). An increasing amount of countries, including low- and middle-income economies (LMICs), have already introduced (or plan to do so) carbon pricing schemes.
Previous studies on energy use in Sub-Saharan Africa have focused almost entirely on households. Hardly any attention has been paid to small enterprises. EfD researcher Yonas Alem, together with…
Officials from Uganda’s Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) participate in a program that provides knowledge on how to design and enforce policy instruments to achieve a transition towards a…
Kenya needs to adopt Just Transition in its low carbon development discussions as the application of this concept is still minimal or non-existent according to Prof. Richard Mulwa, Center Director at…
EfD Kenya held a workshop on the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program to present the National Policy Review (NPR) draft and the IGE project concept note to relevant stakeholders. The guests gave some…
EfD China has conducted a field study involving over 1,500 households and hundreds of stakeholders to evaluate the effects of the Collective Forest Tenure Reform. The purpose is to provide China’s…
What does it take to make a transition to a green economy successful? In many cases, green reforms have encountered protests and even political unrest. Meet Niklas Harring , a researcher at the…