Jurgilevich, Alexandra

Vulnerability and risk assessments are one of the most common initial steps in climate change adaptation. Accounting for future vulnerability is necessary, because adaptation is planned for future climate risks. However, future-oriented vulnerability assessments are rare, and methodological and conc [...]

24 mar 2021, 16:17:50

Fennera, Richard

Global responses to COVID-19 will impact on delivery of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, creating large uncertainties just at the time efforts need to be accelerated. This paper explores how COVID-19 could impact the success of meeting the targets with priority given to the four ‘foun [...]

24 mar 2021, 16:08:24

Mihalyia, David

This paper reviews resource sector developments in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that made their first (major) petroleum discoveries during the most recent commodity boom. The analysis, which goes back to 2001, looks at sector forecasts of international organizations, governments, and companies [...]

24 mar 2021, 15:58:33

Stolera, Justin

In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a set of public guidelines for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) prevention measures that highlighted handwashing, physical distancing, and household cleaning. These health behaviors are severely compromised in parts of the world that lack [...]

24 mar 2021, 15:38:40

Jayaram, Kartik

The COVID-19 pandemic is primarily a health crisis and a human tragedy, but it also has far-reaching economic ramifications. In Africa, it is already disrupting millions of people’s livelihoods, with disproportionate impact on poor households and small and informal businesses—and the pace of thi [...]

24 mar 2021, 15:35:55

Peter Lindsey

The SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 illness are driving a global crisis. Governments have responded by restricting human movement, which has reduced economic activity. These changes may benefit biodiversity conservation in some ways, but in Africa, we contend that the net conservation impacts of COVID [...]

24 mar 2021, 15:22:08

Gerard, François

The public health response to COVID-19 in many countries has involved strict restrictions on movement and economic activity which threaten the livelihoods of economically vulnerable households. In response, governments are adopting emergency economic measures to provide households with some safety n [...]

24 mar 2021, 14:53:49

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24 mar 2021, 14:49:49

Balkenhol, Bernhard

Off-grid solar energy (OGS) is instrumental to achieve access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (Sustainable Development Goal 7, SDG7). More than half of the progress made in the last decade towards SDG7 was owed to path-breaking OGS start-ups. The global crisis brought [...]

24 mar 2021, 14:15:50

Sam Salek

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24 mar 2021, 14:12:00

Zen, Fauziah

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23 mar 2021, 16:18:14

V., Nechifor

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23 mar 2021, 16:13:39

Dabrowski, Marek

The economic characteristics of the COVID-19 crisis differ from those of previous crises. It is a combination of demand- and supply-side constraints which led to the formation of a monetary overhang that will be unfrozen once the pandemic ends. Monetary policy must take this effect into consideratio [...]

23 mar 2021, 15:56:27

Odendahl, Christian

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23 mar 2021, 15:41:54

Morin, S.

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23 fév 2021, 15:10:42

Bigot, Sylvain

Cet article fait un état des lieux sur la notion de services climatiques, et sur le déficit actuel de leurs orientations et applications à l’échelle urbaine. Il détaille particulièrement les enjeux que représentent ces nouveaux services dans le cadre de projets liés à l’adaptation aux c [...]

23 fév 2021, 14:41:54

Ouédraogo, Mathieu

L’utilisation des services hydrométéorologiques et climatiques (SHMCs) constitue une opportunité pour le Mali dans ses efforts visant à réduire la pauvreté, renforcer la résilience et s’adapter au changement climatique. En effet, les SHMCs permettent de protéger les populations contre le [...]

23 fév 2021, 14:18:22