Environment & Energy

Increasingly governments and their citizens recognize that environmental quality and economic prosperity go hand in hand. Yet moving from this recognition to designing solutions that reduce pollution and slow climate change is not so straightforward. What tools can help spur this transition?

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Increasingly governments and their citizens recognize that environmental quality and economic prosperity go hand in hand. Yet moving from this recognition to designing solutions that reduce pollution and slow climate change is not so straightforward. What tools can help spur this transition?

Highlights

News, events, and insights from our environment and energy-related policy-research engagements around the world.

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Fuel subsidies are politically impossible to abandon—but with oil prices at historic lows, this problem has disappeared.  

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The pilot, a collaboration that includes EPoD, may serve as a model for the rest of India and the world.

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The Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank spoke on the Asian Development Outlook 2019 report.

Projects

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Indian cities are among the most polluted in the world. Improved information tools are key to understanding this problem.

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EPoD is collaborating with regulators in one of India’s most industrialized states to test regulatory innovations

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What factors influence household decisions on using new technologies and can training improve outcomes?

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A collaboration with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board opens up data on emissions to the public 

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New work led by Rema Hanna is investigating apps that help protect people from the hazards of polluted air.