With vast sums being invested in interventions to mitigate climate change and help adapt to its consequences, corruption within climate finance threatens ...

High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in 2007, corruption ...

Index insurance has been touted as part of an adaptation strategy to mitigate climate risks among smallholder farmers. However, in the face of increasing ...

Place-based resettlement capacity assessments to identify potential resettlement places for climate migrants are needed to guide climate change related ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate and map climate change discourses in legal spaces. We look at how issues concerning the injustice and human rights ...

During its engagement in Afghanistan, the US military seriously tried to mitigate the risk of civilian casualties from airstrikes only when called for ...

Learning the right lessons from past experiences with corruption in the forest sector is crucial to prevent broad undermining of REDD+.

Manipulating baseline forest data, double-counting project benefits, and skewing monitoring schemes have been known as likely corruption risks for REDD+. But how do these risks map onto the actual political economy of REDD+ implementation in selected pilot countries?

Economist focusing on poverty, resilience, and climate change adaptation

A roundtable discussion with climate change scholars from law, ethics and political science for a conversation on where we are, the most acute challenges ...

Rajeev Goel will present a large cross-country dataset on the nexus between economic uncertainty and corruption. prevalence of corruption

This part of the research project will focus on one particular institution which may mitigate the centralisation of power in Angola and pave the way for ...

A number of studies suggest that natural resources can have a negative impact on the developing prospects of countries. Empirical results suggest that ...

What is the role of the tax avoidance industry?  How can the challenges that tax havens represent be mitigated? On 21 and 22 November 2016, leading academics, ...

Aid agencies need better systems to identify, assess, and mitigate corruption risks. Risk assessments should consider two main dimensions of an act of ...

Forest governance in the Philippines during the post-colonial period has involved protracted efforts to arrest and reverse patterns of overexploitation ...

This paper develops a dynamic computational bioeconomic model with the objective of assessing protected marine reserves as fisheries management tools. ...

A risk management strategy that can identify, assess and propose specific mitigation measures for corruption problems can help better address corruption. When done right, corruption risk management can contribute to increase development impacts.

Population and climate change Astri Suhrke Human choice and climate change Steve Rayner & Elisabeth

Many countries are implementing emergency releases of people from prison to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Such measures, while critical to public health, ...