Blog

by Aziz Karimov June 2013

24 June 2013 Aziz Karimov By the end of 2015, we will see a new global development agenda which will substitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...

• Climate change
• Finance
• Millennium Development Goals

Blog

by Carl-Gustav Lindén May 2013

9 May 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén The world is a complex place where risk and uncertainty are an everyday challenge. Decision makers at all levels say...

• Climate change
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Information technology

Working Paper

We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that...

• Climate change
• Global mitigation
• Developing countries

Blog

by James Stewart December 2015

With COP21 currently taking place in Paris, the thoughts of UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Channing Arndt on the past and future of the climate change...

• Renewable energy
• Climate change

Blog

by Carl-Gustav Lindén October 2012

30 October 2012 At the recent UNU-WIDER research conference on development and climate change, the communications team took the opportunity to ask...

• Climate change
• Economic policy
• Economics

Journal Article

Economic development in low income settings is often associated with an expansion of higher-value agricultural activities. Since these activities often bring new risks, an understanding of cropland decisions and how these interact with shocks is...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Economic development

Working Paper

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. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little...

• Adaptation
• Climate change
• Climate change mitigation

Research Brief

• Climate change
• Climate uncertainty
• Global mitigation

Working Paper

This paper examines the political economy aspects, particularly the influence of the Clean Development Mechanism, in clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The different mechanisms for...

• Renewable energy
• Sustainable development
• Climate change

Working Paper

Mexico’s low-carbon technology perspectives show lack of coherence with the rising ambition in climate change commitments, for which Mexico is internationally praised. The comparison of two recent energy reforms, corresponding to two administrations...

• Gas utilities
• Natural resources
• Power resources

Working Paper

The economic prescription for climate change is clear: price carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions to internalize climate damages. In practice, a variety of political economy constraints prevent the introduction of a carbon price...

• Carbon tax
• Environmental economics
• Climate change

Working Paper

The African continent is facing the potential of a US$183.6 billion liability to repair and maintain roads damaged from temperature and precipitation changes related to climate change through 2100. As detailed, the central part of the continent faces...

• Climate change
• Economic forecasting
• Infrastructure (Economics)

Working Paper

Climate change assessments often inadequately address uncertainty when estimating damages. Using a dynamic economy-wide model of Bangladesh, we estimate and decompose damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Simulation methods (Economics)

Working Paper

Economy-wide and hydrological-crop models are combined to estimate and compare the economic impacts of current climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. Accounting for uncertainty, simulation results indicate that, on...

• Climate change
• Environment and economic development
• Poverty

Working Paper

This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding...

• Climate change
• Environment and economic development
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are generally...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Farm produce