Energy & Climate
Dealing in decarbonisation? A political economy analysis of Senegal’s Just Energy Transition Partnership
This research project explores how the political dynamics of European partners and the Government of Senegal led to a climate finance package that promotes new renewables - while acknowledging Senegal’s right to extract oil & gas.
Funded by Brown University’s Climate Social Science Network.
Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Voluntary Carbon Markets in the Global South
Long-term research project with partners in Kenya, Rwanda, Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire that asks how carbon markets can be better designed to improve environmental integrity and benefits for African countries.
Final report expected Autumn 2026. Feel free to reach out if you want a sneak peak at some of our findings. Funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre.
Climate Finance for Just Transitions
This paper investigates challenges throughout the international climate finance landscape and recommends pathways for how investments into low- and middle-income countries can more effectively drive low-carbon development.
Catalyzing Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Agriculture Enterprises
The report gauges the potential contribution to climate adaptation and mitigation of low-carbon agriculture value chains and idenitifies finance vehicles and policy reforms needed to scale interventions in those value chains.
Positioned for consensus: Market-based approaches, civil society and the role of the state in Chile's coal phase-out
How did the private sector, civil society groups, academics and government actors come together in the lead up to Chile’s voluntary coal retirement plan? This study, part of book led by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, offers some answers.
Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance I - What the Electrification Experiences of Seven Countries Tell Us about the Future of Connection Costs, Subsidies, and Integrated Planning
Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance II – Balancing Competition and Subsidy: Assessing Mini-Grid Incentive Programs in sub-Saharan Africa
New and renewable energy social enterprises accessing government support: Findings from India
Exploring the strategies that small and medium scale off-grid solar enterprises in India take towards government programs
Rural Electrification Policy and Off Grid Solar: Sector Engagement Strategies in India and Beyond
Centering the responses of off grid solar businesses to India’s Decentralized Distributed Generation Scheme and the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.