When it comes to getting people to change their behaviour around mindlessly throwing away single-use plastics, rather than re-using or recycling them, what small messages are most likely to prod them…
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment report launched on February 4th, 2019, finds that at least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt due to climate change…
The EfD Annual Meeting is the largest annual conference in the Global South on the application of environmental economics to development. The EfD Annual Meeting will be held in Bogotá, Colombia, on 21…
Global environmental problems can be addressed by means of policy instruments such as carbon dioxide taxes, building and technology standards and support for new technology, but the issues are complex…
Costa Rica has been a pioneer in implementing policies to protect and promote ecosystem services. One of the most successful innovative public financing schemes implemented more than twenty years ago…
Funding from The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has been secured that will enable the Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg…
From January 1, 2019, The EfD Secretariat becomes a special Unit at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. We asked Gunnar Köhlin, EfD Director, some quick questions…
SARAS 2018 Eighth Public Conference will focus on ecosystem services and management to ensure sustainability. The term "ecosystem services" is defined as the set of goods and services that human…
The Policy Day of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD) was held in Hanoi, Vietnam on November 1. This year’s theme for this special event was Economic Approaches…
The 12th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD), was held on Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov 2-5, 2018. All keynote sessions were streamed and can be viewed. Program and papers Program…