Worldwide and Uganda in particular, climate change continues pose significant challenges to communities. The changing climate, characterized by erratic rainfall patterns, prolonged droughts, land degradation, and extreme weather events have adversely affected agriculture, water resources management, public health, and infrastructure development. To address these challenges, various initiatives have been implemented by state actors, non-state actors,… Continue reading The Social, Economic, and Political Trade-offs of Climate Change Adaptation in Uganda: Towards building resilient communities

Social protection programs offer an important policy instrument to manage the poverty, inequality, and other social impacts of climate change. A large literature anecdotally documents the roles that cash transfers, public employment, and other social assistance and labor programs have played in managing both physical and transition risks arising from climate change (Costella et al.,… Continue reading Climate Change and Poverty Solutions: Mapping the integration of social protection policies and climate in LMICs 

In March 2020, Luxembourg became the first country in the world to offer free public transport across all modes of transport. We leverage this unique quasi-experimental setting to evaluate whether Luxembourg’s free public transport policy has induced a shift from private motorized transport to free public transport. To assess this shift we measure the reduction… Continue reading Does Free Public Transport Reduce Carbon Emissions? Causal Evidence from Luxembourg

In this study, we explore the relationship between European carbon prices, energy prices and the macroeconomy in boom and bust times. Utilizing a smooth transition structural VAR model, we analyze monthly data spanning from 2006 to 2023. Our model benefits from identification through non-Gaussianity and the correlation with external carbon and energy shock series. Notably,… Continue reading European carbon pricing in boom and bust times

The use of carbon taxes to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is gaining increasing attention, both in developed and developing economies. However, policymakers, particularly those from developing countries, still lack rigorous empirical evidence on various issues related to the effects of carbon taxes. Despite strong opposition from the industry, South Africa was the first country… Continue reading The Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxes in the Developing World: Evidence from South Africa

The upcoming climate-critical decade will determine whether we progress sufficiently toward a net-zero economy to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Climate innovation, alongside major behavioral change, is critical for success, as around 35 percent of the technologies necessary for net zero are not yet developed and/or deployed1. However, despite having the most ambitious decarbonization… Continue reading The Experimental Approach to Net Zero Policies

The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has become the cornerstone of the European Union’s strategy to decarbonize the economy and mitigate climate change. Following these objectives, the aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the price of carbon, which is linked to the European market of allowances, on carbon dioxide… Continue reading Semiparametric Estimation of European Climate Policy Effects (EU ETS)

Abstract: UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. Increasingly UNICEF is working to address the impact of the climate emergency which threatens all children. UNICEF actively evaluates its programmes in order to identify what… Continue reading UNICEF Interventions to address a Climate Emergency – What Works

BACKGROUND: The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes that global prosperity and wellbeing will ultimately depend on how we fulfil our obligation to protect the world’s children. Today, more than 3 out of 4 United Nations humanitarian appeals involve extreme weather events, an increase from just over one third back in 2001. With… Continue reading Climate Mitigation & Adaptation: Lessons from UNICEF’s Horn of Africa Drought Emergency Response