Column on the good and the bad for the environment from the confinement in Colombia
On August 2nd, 2020, EfD Colombia senior researchers Jorge Bonilla, María Alejandra Velez and Jorge Higinio Maldonado published an opinion column in the Colombian diary “El Espectador”. In this column…
REPRC-EfD Nigeria Leads Call for Green Growth Plan for Nigeria
The Resource and Environmental Policy Research Centre (REPRC) Environment for Development (EfD) Nigeria on Friday August 14, 2020 assembled environment experts and scholars from different parts of the…
ENRRI Fellow provides insights on Ghana’s 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review
Economist and ENNRI Research Fellow, Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour provided expert insights on Ghana’s 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review to Citi TV in Accra. In her comments, Dr Twumasi Baffour, who is also…
The second edition of “Discussions on Environment for Development” talks about the pandemic, the economics of natural resources and social dilemas
The second edition of the series of documents “Discussions on Environment for Development” has the title “The pandemic of COVID-19 and the economics of natural resources: dealing with social dilemas”…
Environmental Impacts and Policy Responses to Covid-19: A View from Latin America
COVID-19 is currently having major short run effects with possible serious long run implications for the environment and the management of natural resources in Latin America. We discuss the possible effects of the pandemic on air pollution, deforestation and other relevant environmental dimensions across the region. With contributions from environmental economists from eight countries, we give an overview of the initial and expected environmental effects of this health crisis.
Gender Equity during Covid-19
After publishing " In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity", St. Mary's College of Maryland created a website addressing gender equity in academia. Women in…
EfD researchers explore the effects of Covid-19 on relevant environmental dimensions across Latin America
A new multiauthor-perspective article discusses the potential effects of Covid-19 across Latin American countries. It also proposes an agenda for future research as a manner of contributing to a…
EfD-Mak Centre Uganda in collaboration with EfD-Tanzania hold a webinar on Harnessing the COVID -19 Recovery Programmes to Combat Climate Change in Uganda
The EfD Mak Centre Uganda in collaboration with EfD-Tanzania on 24th June, 2020 held a Webinar with a purpose of distilling lessons learned from the COVID-19 response and how these can be transposed…
How to make virtual research-engagement workshops work better: Insights from a recent international gender and energy meeting
Written by: Thomas Klug & Marc Jeuland
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