Energy & Environment

How does the loss of biodiversity impact economies and human well-being?

Peru’s experience, where transfers to local governments were funded by natural resource tax revenues and had a host of economic benefits in non-extractive areas, highlights the importance of fiscal redistribution in taking advantage of natural resour...

Extinction risks are rising for many species, but policy is slow to react. What are the ingredients to human-made mass extinctions, how may we prevent them?

Paying landowners to conserve their forested land is a leading approach to prevent deforestation. Evidence from Mexico shows that smarter contract design can more than quadruple cost-effectiveness.

A large-scale study establishes what is believed to be the first causal link between in-utero exposure to microplastics and low birthweights.

Despite fears that devolving control over forest resources to local communities may accelerate deforestation and worsen the climate crisis, the large-scale transfer of political power to India’s historically marginalised Scheduled Tribes significantl...

Mobile broadband coverage led to large and significant gains in household consumption and reductions in poverty in Nigeria.

Annual capacity payments to private power producers are six times higher than Pakistan’s annual healthcare budget, yet nearly half of the power capacity remains unused. What explains this phenomenon?