May 4, 2012
Lack of reliable access to electricity is a significant barrier to economic development and job creation in Tanzania. Currently, only 14% of the population has access to electricity; in rural areas the electrification rate hovers around 2%. Power outages are frequent – especially during droughts, which cripple the hydroelectric power on which most of the country depends.
This policy brief, by Lutz Weischer of World Resources Institute for CDKN, explores Tanzania’s Small Power...
April 27, 2012
• Specialists recommend increasing baseline information and reinforcing strategies for adaptation to climate change
• Event on “Analysis of the relationship between climate change and poverty reduction policies” gathered Government authorities and experts on climate change
Minister of the Environment (MINAM), Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, among other experts from public and private institutions, agreed on the need for more solid information about...
April 20, 2012
By Liz Stanton, Stockholm Environment Institute
Some economists conclude that the best response to climate change is to allow greenhouse gas emissions to keep growing throughout this century, although making sure their growth is slower than under a “business-as-usual” (no policy action) scenario. Others economists say the best policy is to lower emissions quickly, starting as soon as possible, and eliminating all...
March 22, 2012
By Mairi Dupar, Global Public Affairs Coordinator, CDKN
This week a group of developing country decision-makers, donor programmes and technical institutions, the LEDS Global Partnership, has gathered in the UK to discuss the successful ingredients for designing low emissions development.
A burning question for the LEDS community is: given that public finance is limited, how do you invest the available public funds most...
March 16, 2012
On Thursday, 22 March, a seminar on, “Analysing the relationship between climate change and poverty reduction policies”, will be attended by leading researchers in social and environmental issues, as well as representatives of the Peruvian Government. Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Minister of the Environment, and Luis Ginocchio, Minister of Agriculture, will take part in a round table discussion focusing on the analysis of public policies relating to climate change.
The researchers and...
Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review: the economics of climate change (2006), will lead a series of events in Ecuador in late March in partnership with Ecuador’s Ministry of the Environment, the British Embassy – Ecuador, CDKN, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA), FUNDAR Galápagos, ...