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Dr. Nkechi Owoo has made history as the first woman in 80 years to be promoted to Full Professor of Economics at the University of Ghana.

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In late 2025, major global food and consumer goods producers—including PepsiCo, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever —met in Europe to discuss the future of packaging[1]. The summit focus...

The School of Economics at University College Dublin (Ireland) is offering a PhD fellowship for our PhD Economics programme for students with a specific interest in working in environmental economics,...

In a policy brief published in Science, scientists call on European Union for a new approach to protect people and nature from the hidden risks of chemical cocktails.

Evidence for Climate Action (E4CA) is a global platform for sharing the latest evidence on climate action. Anchored at the ‘evidence pavilion’ at COP30, E4CA will bring together the evaluation functions of multiple organizations for a diverse program on lessons learned from multiple climate interventions. A series of in-person and virtual sessions will feature discussions on a range of key issues, from adaption and climate finance to forestry management and the role of Indigenous peoples and local communities. With accelerating implementation at the core of COP30, insights from evaluative evidence on what is working, what is not, and what has the potential to scale, are vital for informing the way forward.

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Water utility leaders from four African cities—Accra, Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar es Salaam—came together for a unique workshop aimed at sharing experiences and building strong

On monday 10th of november an EEU seminar will be held by Anne-Sophie Crépin and she will be presenting a paper on the topic of: Economic management of casc

In northern India, where air pollution is a growing health crisis, researchers, in collaboration with journalists, have investigated ways to raise awareness by putting science in the public

The School of Economics at University College Dublin (Ireland) is inviting applications for three positions at the Assistant Professor level. One of the positions is specifically in Environmental & Na...

EfD Ghana organized a capacity-building workshop aimed at enhancing research skills among graduate students from the University of Ghana.

UNU-WIDER invites proposals for new research under the Taxes, subsidies, and the environment project, part of its Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) programme and cross-cutting theme on Climate Ch

The webinar Burning Questions: Gender, Health,

Policymakers and researchers from the Inclusive Green Economy in Practice (IGE) program and the EfD network toured the Mabwepande compost plant outside Dar es Salaam, exploring how s

Topic: Village networks and climate-smart agriculture: Pathways to adoption and resilience in rural Ethiopia.

Wisdom Akpalu, Director of EfD Ghana and Chairman of the Fisheries Commission, has been appointed as Ghana’s representative on the Bureau of the 6th Specialized Technical Committee o

EfD South Africa - EPRU and the EfD Global Hub, in collaboration with the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA), conducted a free PhD training workshop with over 300 par

The EfD Policy Day 2025 brought together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to explore pathways for building resilient and sustainable agriculture in Eastern Africa.

Agriculture is the backbone of economies in East Africa, employing about 60 percent of the workforce and contributing on an average to 30 percent of gross domestic product.

Women researchers are underrepresented in the field of economics, and they face some career obstacles that their male colleagues don’t.

EfD Ghana researchers Wisdom Akpalu and Francis Atsu participated in a regional workshop on establishing a West African Carbon Market Platform, organized by the ECOWAS Commission as

EfD Vietnam researcher Le Viet Phu has published