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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 industriesNews
UNU-WIDER experts in key role in global roundtable process on extractivesOver the past eight months, various heads of state, ministers, and other stakeholders from around the world have participated in a dialogue to discuss the pressing issues and the future of the extractives sector. UNU-WIDER researchers Tony Addison...
Extractive industries Extractives United NationsSeminar
Extractive industries – Taxation and revenues II
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe at the United Nations Global Roundtable on Extractive Industries
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 5th UN Roundtable on ExtractivesOn 15 March, 2021, Tony Addison and Alan Roe , both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled ' Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda in...
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 4th UN Roundtable on ExtractivesOn 4 February, 2021, Tony Addison and Alan Roe , both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled " Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda...
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Transparency in extractive industry commodities tradingThe paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to improved transparency...
Transparency Commodity trading Extractive industriesProject workshop
Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues
Policy Brief
Mining for change: How can natural resources support inclusive growth in AfricaFor a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. There is an extensive literature linking natural resource dependence to poor economic performance...
Mining Extractive industries Industrial policyWorking Paper
Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in MozambiqueIn the light of Mozambique’s natural resources boom—especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas—this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an inst...
Economic transformation Extractive industries InstitutionsWorking Paper
The potential of extractive industries as anchor investments for broader regional developmentThe paper reviews what we know about the possibilities of designing and implementing policy measures that raise the contribution of the extractive industries’ production/consumption links to economic growth and wellbeing, and reviews how polici...
Downstream processing Extractive industries InfrastructureWorking Paper
Revenue forecasting in the mining industries: A data-driven approachRobust forecasting of mining sector revenues is key to effective budgeting (and broader fiscal management) in many resource-rich countries...
Corporate income tax Extractive industries Mineral taxBook Chapter
Uganda’s oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?From the book: Mining for Change
Extractives Extractive industries Structural change