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From summits to solutions: what success means at COP26
At the 76 th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, world leaders discussed the need to scale-up ambition to address key global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, political extremism, and widening inequality...
COP26 Developing countries Climate changeBlog
Reducing wasted gas emissions is an opportunity for clean air and climateThe 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) is seen as the last best chance for countries and companies to set out how they are actually going to deliver the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) target of no more tha...
COP26 Climate change Extractive industriesBlog
Looking ahead to COP26
The long-awaited COP26 in Glasgow is about to start. Billed as the most important COP to date, it is widely seen as a last chance to avoid a global temperature rise beyond 1.5°C. Yet expectations of major breakthroughs weaken by the week...
COP26 Developing countries Climate changeBlog
The value of non-renewable resources in the era of climate change
The economic decline of Nauru, an island in the Central Pacific, is a cautionary tale. Nauru was the highest GDP per capita country in the world in the 1970s, due to the value of its phosphate deposits...
COP26 Climate change Extractive industriesBlog
The zero carbon agenda and metals demand: some major dilemmas
The transition to net zero over the next few decades will involve a large increase in the global demand for many metals essential to the renewables revolution driving that transition...
COP26 Climate change Extractive industriesWorking Paper
Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal: Disentangling the interdependenciesClimate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration...
Climate change Migration AgricultureBlog
Finding keys for development in Africa
Economics researcher Aimable Nsabimana shares the relevance and inspiration behind his recent work with UNU-WIDER on climate change and human development in Tanzania. How can research contribute to the wellbeing in Africa?...
Child nutrition Tanzania Weather shockWorking Paper
Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly?: A reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate changeUnderlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are...
Natural resources Valuation environmental impactWorking Paper
Taxing extractive resources in the transition to a low-carbon futureThis paper explores the potential impacts of the transition to a low-carbon future for the taxation of extractive resources...
Taxation Climate change low-carbon futureNews
Press Release: Top UN economists warn of crises of our own making if global “megatrends” left uncheckedTo avoid future failures, new report calls for overhaul of the way policies are made
Inequality Urbanization Climate changeIn the media
An energy expert from SA-TIED appears on SABC's The Bottom Line
South Africa Energy Climate change Journal Article
Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us?Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Adaptation Climate change Climate change mitigationJournal Article
Aid Impact and Effectiveness: Introduction and OverviewPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Donors Fragile states Climate changeResearch Brief
In the media
SA-TIED research on South Africa's energy future in the news
Climate change Climate change mitigation Climate adaptation Working Paper
Foreign aid and climate change policy: What can(’t) the data tell us?Climate-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...
Adaptation Climate change Climate change mitigation