climate change

Tackling food insecurity

We produce enough food to feed every single person alive, yet global food insecurity is rising. Arif Husain discusses why and the way forward.

Agriculture

Arif Husain

Published

11.07.18

Evidence to practice: Understanding the audience, context, and indirect effects

Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary General at the UNEP, shares two examples of designing policy.*

Public Economics

Elliott Harris

Published

03.06.18

Should they stay or should they go? Climate migrants and local conflicts

Migration acts as an escape valve for conflict in areas suffering from climate change, but does not increase conflict in destination countries

Migration & Urbanisation

Valentina Bosetti Cristina Cattaneo Giovanni Peri

Published

18.06.18

The global energy challenge

What are 3 key energy challenges the world faces? How can they be overcome?

Energy & Environment

Michael Greenstone

Published

27.03.18

Can farmers weather climate change?

Jonathan Colmer explores the effect increasing temperatures have on farmers and the occupational structure in India.

Agriculture

Jonathan Colmer

Published

21.03.18

Forest conservation in Uganda: Using financial incentives to avert climate change

Payments for ecosystem services programmes for landowners reduce deforestation, presenting a cost-effective approach to cutting CO2 emissions

Energy & Environment

Seema Jayachandran

Published

28.09.17

Designing more effective resettlement programs: Lessons from transmigration in Indonesia

Better matching between transmigrants’ origin and destination agroclimate and languages can substantially improve productivity and integration

Migration & Urbanisation

Samuel Bazzi Arya Gaduh Alexander Rothenberg Maisy Wong

Published

08.08.17

Hidden productivity benefits from energy-saving technology

Energy-efficient technologies are an increasingly relevant policy priority, given growing consensus on the need to tackle climate change. This column examines the productivity benefits of adopting one such technology – LED lighting – for manufacturin...

Achyuta Adhvaryu Namrata Kala Anant Nyshadham

Published

27.08.16

Floods and the location of economic activity

Economic activity is concentrated in low-lying urban areas despite greater risk of flooding, and tends to return to these areas rather than relocating

Infrastructure

Adriana Kocornik-Mina Thomas McDermott Guy Michaels Ferdinand Rauch

Published

21.01.16