The Right Livelihood College (RLC) at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany, offers a DAAD-funded PhD research scholarship on: Land degradation, environmental justice and socio-cultural dynamics in Africa Project background The Right Livelihood College (RLC) is a transdisciplinary global research and education initiative of universities and the Right Livelihood Foundation awarding […]
The Section of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences at the University of Kassel, Germany together with the University of Dar Es Salaam, College of Social Sciences, develop research on land use change on the Southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The project is part of a […]
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming our planet, with potentially severe economic, social, and health consequences. Conventional estimates of climate damages suggest that while coordinated global efforts are desirable, unilateral action is rarely cost-effective due to a classic free-rider problem. Why should a country bear the costs of reducing emissions when the benefits are […]
Toco believes its novel monetary system is a solution for the climate crisis that doesn’t compromise economic growth, but sceptics question whether a lack of oversight will undermine its impact. Imagine if you could save the planet every time you spend money. A Swiss-South African start-up has launched Toco, a digital currency which is backed […]
Cocoa crisis: Climate change threat to chocolate laid bare in new report ahead of Valentine’s Day Cocoa prices have risen 400% in recent years as study shows climate change made 2023 heatwave in West Africa 10 times more likely. British chocolatiers feeling the heat: “It’s a nightmare, I don’t think any business involved in chocolate […]
Go to any informal settlement in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, or to the outskirts of a city along its coast, such as Khulna, and it doesn’t take long to find communities that have relocated or been displaced. Their homes may have been destroyed —often repeatedly—by a sudden onset natural hazard such as a cyclone; or their […]
There are ways to reduce the climate impact of what we eat – but companies and governments have been slow to back them. One of the most striking, and widely shared, images of the recent catastrophic California fires was of a McDonald’s restaurant in Pasadena engulfed in flames. A symbol of the American Dream going […]
[Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida holds a PhD summa cum laude in International and European Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a Professor of International Law at FGV Rio Law and Director of FGV Rio Law’s Centre for Global Law and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges. Valentine Tissot Pinheiro holds an LL.M. in […]
The government should harmonize electricity tariffs to achieve the targets outlined in the National Energy Compact (NEC) endorsed at the 2025 Africa Energy Summit held recently in Dar es Salaam. The Compact aims to make electricity the primary energy source for cooking in Tanzania. Fadhila Trisekwa, Senior Manager for Tax Services at PwC, emphasized that to […]