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• 2013-01-30 | eeu sweden EfD new partner in the Green Growth Knowledge Platform The Environment for Development Initiative (EfD) has been accepted as a new GGKP Knowledge Partner by the GGKP Council members - the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Bank.
• 2013-01-11 Sustainable agriculture more likely with educated women The more years of education a woman has, the more likely it is that her household uses sustainable farming practices. By combining certain sustainable farming methods, many poor farmers would increase farm income without depleting their soils. This is the conclusion of new research from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.
• 2013-01-08 Effective climate policy instruments highlighted by Sterner at IPCC Working Group meeting Carbon taxes are clearly progressive and can easily cut a country’s vehicle emissions by more than half. Support to solar and wind technologies are as important, though also tricky to design, said Professor Thomas Sterner, Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC Working Group III at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meeting in San Diego, January 4th.
• 2012-12-06 PhD course spring 2013: From research to policy for sustainable development In order for research to contribute to a more sustainable development, it is critical that research results reach out to a wide audience. The aim of this course is to enhance the PhD students understanding of the research-policy linkages and to increase the capabilities of the PhD-students to communicate their research findings to different stakeholders.
• 2012-11-27 EAERE 2013 - Call for Thematic Sessions Deadline: 1st December 2012 for EAERE 2013 - Call for Thematic Sessions. Proposals for the organisation of “Thematic Sessions” at EAERE 2013 in Toulouse are encouraged.
• 2012-11-26 Call for papers EAERE 2013 The 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) will be held in Toulouse, France, on June 26-29, 2013.
• 2012-11-26 Call for Applications EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School: "Uncertainty, Innovation and Climate Change" takes place 30 June -6 July 2013, Venice, Italy. Call for Applications' deadline is February 1st, 2013.
• 2012-11-09 Ida Hellmark the economics alumni of the year Ida Hellmark, environmental economist, former project coordinator for Focali and alumni from the School of Economics at the University of Gothenburg, has been awarded the “young economics alumni award 2012”.
• 2012-11-09 Sesync Funding Opportunities: Thematic Pursuits The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is a new national research center supported by the National Science Foundation through a grant to the University of Maryland. SESYNC funds the world’s leading social scientists, natural scientists, and humanities scholars to travel to the Annapolis facility and work intensively in small trans-disciplinary groups to advance fundamental research on socio-environmental problems. Computational science is also supported by the center.
• 2012-11-07 Sterner works on the next IPCC Report on Climate Change Professor Thomas Sterner is one of the experts from 56 countries who are currently working in Vigo, Spain, on the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report on climate change. The report will be released in 2014 to inform policymakers about response strategies in the area of climate change mitigation in a policy-relevant, but not policy-prescriptive way.
• 2012-10-31 Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, April 2013. The World Bank invites the submission of abstracts (between 800 and 1500 words) on the theme "Moving towards transparent land governance: Evidence-based next steps.” The deadline is November 15th, 2012. The conference will be held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 8-11, 2013. This is a great opportunity for EfD researchers to reach out to policy makers, implementing organizations and donors.
• 2012-10-15 Climate negotiations relying on “dangerous” thresholds will not succeed The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius seems not to have helped the climate negotiations so far. New research shows that negotiations based on such a threshold fail because its value is determined by Nature and is inherently uncertain. Climate negotiators should therefore focus on other collective strategies.
• 2012-09-27 | eeu sweden tanzania | Energy Forestry Policy design Elizabeth Robinson provides advice for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) EfD research fellow Dr Elizabeth Robinson from the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading has been appointed to sit on Defra's Economic Advisory Panel which provides advice, support and new research insights to Defra's economists and policymakers.
• 2012-09-17 | eeu sweden ethiopia | Agriculture Climate change Energy Fisheries Forestry Policy design Inclusive Green Growth discussed by top scientists and practitioners International top scientists and practitioners from EfD, WRI, UNEP, UNDP, IIED, SEI, World Bank and many more met at Sida on September 17 to discuss inclusive green growth, next steps and implications for global development and development cooperation after the Rio Summit 2012.
• 2012-08-30 | eeu sweden ethiopia kenya Summer courses on Panel Data Econometrics organized by EfD The EfD organized and offered the first summer course on “Panel Data Econometrics” at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Mekelle University, Ethiopia in July 2012.
• 2012-08-13 | rff usa Gunnar Köhlin interviewed in Resources The latest issue of RFF Resources magazine is a special issue on "Balancing Economic and Environmental Progress in Developing Countries". It is being guest edited by EfD Research Fellow Allen Blackman, RFF Senior Fellow, and contains an interview with EfD Director Gunnar Köhlin as well as articles by Professor Thomas Sterner and other EfD members.
• 2012-08-13 New EfD Partner at Universidad de Concepción The EfD Coordination Committee, headed by EfD Director Gunnar Köhlin, welcomes as a new EfD Partner the Chilean research center Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Concepcion.
• 2012-08-07 | eeu sweden | Policy design Sterner at the Resource 2012 in Oxford: Property rights are key for resource efficiency When choosing policy instruments to manage our planet´s resources we need to think about both efficiency and fairness, said Professor Thomas Sterner when he was invited as Visiting Chief Economist of the Environmental Defense Fund to address the prestigious global conference Resource 2012 in Oxford. Other speakers included David Attenborough, Bill Clinton, Amartya Sen and Hans Rosling.
• 2012-08-06 | Fisheries Call for Future Ocean Postdoc Projects The first call for Future Ocean Postdoc Projects is now open. Details about the call can be found on the website:
• 2012-07-05 Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference: Environment and Natural Resources Management in Developing and Transition Economies An EAERE supported events: Pre-conference on Migration and the Environment, 17-19 October 2012 Clermont Ferrand, France. The deadline for submission is June 30th, 2012.
• 2012-06-19 Rio Isn't All Lost, An Article Published on The New York Times Christian Azar, a professor of energy and the environment at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, Thomas Sterner, a visiting chief economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Gernot Wagner, an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund and the author of "But Will the Planet Notice?", have published an article named "Rio Isn't All Lost" on The New York Times on June 18, 2012.
• 2012-06-01 Sida conference: Green Growth and Rio+20, Implications and Next Steps? Dr Alemu Mekonnen, Director of EfD Ethiopia, is invited as a speaker and resource person when Sida organizes a conference Sept 17, 2012 on the theme “After Rio +20; Green Growth for Sustainable Development – Lessons learned, Next steps and Implications for Development and Development Cooperation”. Among the speakers are also Professor Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, currently visiting Chief Economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York.
• 2012-04-19 | eeu sweden | Fisheries Policy design Eggert discusses sustainable fisheries in the EU Håkan Eggert, Associated Professor in Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg, is one of the panelists in a European Parliament panel discussion on Sustainable fisheries in the EU – getting incentives right on April 25. Other panelists are other researchers, a Swedish Fishermen’s Federation representative and Members of the European Parliament such as Isabella Lövin, author of the renowned book Silent Seas (Tyst hav).
• 2012-04-19 | eeu sweden | Fisheries Policy design Sterner speaks at European Parliament about managing fishing overcapacity Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg, speaks at a public hearing on the subject “The feasibility of Transferable Fishing Concessions in the context of Common Fisheries Policy Reform” organized by The Committee on Fisheries of the European Parliament on 24 April, at 15.30-18.30.
• 2012-04-16 Call for papers and proposals EfD Annual Meeting Call for papers and proposals - The 6th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative. This year´s EfD annual meeting is organized by the Environment for Development in Central America and the EfD Secretariat October 26-29, 2012
• 2012-04-16 Peter Parks in memoriam Peter J. Parks, a Professor at Rutgers University, and Research Associate at the Environmental Economics Unit at the University of Gothenburg, has passed away. Professor Parks has contributed in so many ways, both as researcher and teacher, to the academic environment in the field of natural resource economics in Sweden. In Gothenburg, Peter has been involved in teaching several generations of graduate students from all over the world in natural resource economics since 1998. He has also co-authored several articles. In Umeå, Peter was involved in a large research program with focus on natural resource management in northern Sweden between 1998 and 2003. We had the pleasure of getting to know Peter as a teacher, researcher and, most importantly, as a warm and dedicated friend.
• 2012-04-10 | eeu sweden | Agriculture Global competition for land threatens poor people's land rights The first open seminar in a series organized by Land Rights Research Initiative (LARRI) discusses, with examples from Africa, how the growing demand for land for commercial investments threatens to deprive poor rural households of their access to land. It also discusses what scope there is and what measures are required to turn this development into a positive outcome at the local level.
• 2012-03-29 | eeu sweden | Policy design Course in Policy Instruments for Environmental and Climate Economics The Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is at present running one of their specialization courses in environmental economics, namely Policy Instruments for Environmental and Climate Economics.
• 2012-03-28 New center for environmental economics research “CEERAC” is born in Ghana The acute shortage of local capacity to undertake policy relevant research on natural resources management in sub-Sahara African countries, including Ghana, is seriously threatening the survival of renewable resources including rainforest stocks, capture fish stocks, aquifers, and agricultural soil. “Institutions such as Environment for Development initiative and the Center for Environmental Economics Policy in Africa have made very significant strides at addressing the problem but an enormous and increasing gap still persists. This is why I have established the Center for Environmental Economics Research & Consultancy in Ghana,” says Dr. Wisdom Akpalu, EfD Associate.
• 2012-03-23 | eeu sweden | Climate change Policy design Sterner interviewed in Africa Renewal about Nigerian petrol subsidies Professor Thomas Sterner is interviewed in the April issue of the renowned magazine, Africa Renewal, published by the Strategic Communications Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information. "The next time the government contemplates removing the subsidy, it must be "more careful"," argues Sterner.

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