EfD Ghana seminar proposes pathways to maximize extractive sector benefits
Ghana's extractive industry faces challenges, limiting its potential to contribute effectively to the nation's economic growth. The EfD Ghana seminar, titled Getting More from Ghana’s Extractive…
EfD Uganda’s IGE Fellows of 2024 enrolled
The EfD Uganda participants in the Inclusive Green Economy Program, IGE Fellows, cohort of 2024-25, were officially enrolled in a yearlong capacity-building program at Makerere University on May 15…
Two EfD centers collaborate on a fisheries management plan for Nigeria
EfD Ghana and EfD Nigeria collaborate in a joint project that transfers knowledge and best practices from Ghana to Nigeria, leading to the development and implementation of Nigeria’s first fisheries
“There is a knowledge gap on how to implement green economy policies”
Hana Mekonnen Alemu is one of Ethiopia's 2023/24 IGE Fellows. She works as a Climate Change Expert at the Ministry of Water and Energy. The Ethiopian team worked with two Transition Initiatives (TIs)…
Ugandan parliament expresses support for policies towards clean household energy
Researchers from EfD Uganda presented findings to the Ugandan parliament on May 3rd, shedding light on the country's heavy reliance on biomass and proposing policy adjustments towards cleaner energy…
Energy-efficient technologies help micro and small enterprises reduce their electricity consumption
EfD Authors:
This brief is based on results from the study Energy Demand and Energy efficiency and Conservation Practices of Manufacturing Industries in Ethiopia, EfD Study (MS-761) by Sied Hassen and Abebe Damte.
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Do micro and small enterprises’ use of energy-efficient technologies and conservation practices help them reduce their monthly electricity consumption? We provide insights from the energy consumption and micro and small enterprises project in Ethiopia, based on data collected by the Policy Studies Institute, Ethiopia. |
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward
EfD Authors:
This paper presents a global synthesis of economic values for ecosystem services provided by 15 terrestrial and marine biomes. Information from over 1,300 studies, yielding over 9,400 value estimates in monetary units, has been collected and organised in the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD). This is a substantial expansion of data since the de Groot et al. (2012) description of the ESVD and provides an important juncture to explore developments in the use of valuation methods and the contexts in which valuations are conducted.
TRANSPATH aims at sustainable consumption, production, and relationship with nature
Approximately 25 people from the Czech Republic, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ghana, and Costa Rica participated in the second meeting of the Transformative Pathways…
The struggle to reduce biomass dependency may be gaining momentum
Twenty civil servants from five East African countries met with 16 EfD researchers over four intense days to share knowledge and experience of policies to increase the use of clean cooking…
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Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Gender, Health, Policy Design |
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda