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…
Long-term exposure to air pollution has a significant link to COVID-19 related mortality. Four Latin American countries have been studied by comparing satellite-based data with official statistics on…
A team of researchers from Makerere University led by Dr. Aisha Nanyiti and Dr. Fred Matovu have won two of the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD ) 2021 Grants worth USD 144, 918 funded by…
This publication explains how market-based instruments can be utilized to improve air quality, water, and waste management in Asia.
Zoom Inscripciones aquí Transmisión: https://bit.ly/3l4vkyT Agenda: 4:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. La utilidad de los modelos atmosféricos en la política pública. Edison Ortiz, Coordinador del Grupo de…
Submit your work here: https://bit.ly/3x8uh34 The Seventh Annual Meeting of the EfD Chile center "Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE)", will take place on October…
Makerere University has launched a new program dubbed “Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) in Practice”. IGE in Practice, is a collaborative programme between Makerere University’s Environment for…
Allen Blackman, Principal Economic Advisor to the Climate and Sustainable Development sector at the Inter-American Development Bank and Nonresident Fellow at Resources for the Future. His research…
Indoor air pollution is a major problem in the developing world and. Most of these emissions are generated while cooking with solid fuels. For this reason, understanding the determinants of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) stove adoption in rural India is key for designing good policies. This column looks at the impact of electrification on the choice of cooking fuel. According to the energy ladder theory, the increase in socioeconomic status generated by electrification should push households towards the adoption of cleaner cooking fuels.
Rapid urbanization is a global trend. Ambitions to build cities out of a recession and overheated housing markets are factors that can accentuate that trend. But when densification is seen as the…