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James Thurlow UNU-WIDER recently hosted an international conference on ‘Climate Change and Development Policy’. We were motivated by the apparent...
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Introducing Carbon Taxes in South Africa
James Thurlow South Africa is one of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters. In 2007 it ranked 13th amongst all countries in terms of its overall...
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Research Communication: Why Doesn’t Research Turn Into Policy?
30 October 2012 At the recent UNU-WIDER research conference on development and climate change, the communications team took the opportunity to ask...
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The Climate Change Challenge: Two Arguments for Acting Now
Kemal Derviş The debate on climate change has evolved in recent years from being about whether climate change is a serious problem, towards being...
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Economy-Wide Implications of Energy Build PlansWe introduce a linked modeling framework based on existing computable general equilibrium and energy planning models for South Africa. The combined model provides for a more accurate assessment of the macroeconomic impacts of detailed energy build...
Working Paper
Managing Renewable Natural Capital in AfricaThere is a growing evidence suggesting that the ecological degradation in Africa is accelerating faster than the region's economic decline. More seriously, trees in Sub-Saharan Africa are being felled 30 times as fast as they are being replaced...
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Global Asymmetries and their Implications for Climate and Industrial PoliciesPart of Book Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
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Aid and Environment in AfricaThis paper provides an assessment of what aid has actually been doing in the area of environment in Tanzania through a critical review of the flows, modalities and management of aid. Focusing on the funding for environmental degradation projects, the...
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Aid, Environment, and Climate Change in AfricaThe paper reviews the dynamics of the financing based its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993-2010, with around 9,077 observations on projects funded in Senegal by various multilateral as well as bilateral donors. The study...
Book Chapter
Trade Liberalization, Environment and PovertyPart of Book Globalization and the Poor in Asia
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Support policies for renewablesThis paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies. Here, support policies for renewable...
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Foreign aid and climate change policyClimate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little...
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Climate Change Impacts and AdaptationsPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
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The political economy of energy innovationThis paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient...
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