A climate for change in Africa
Sub-Saharan African countries are bracing for dramatic impacts of climate change. As Andrew Simms of the UK-based New Economics Foundation has aptly put it, they are “caught between the devil of...
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Advance version of World Development Report 2010 now online!
After more than a year of research, consultation, and writing, I’m happy to announce that we have just released a “pre-press” version of our report: World Development Report 2010: Development and...
View ArticleRenewable, Clean - and Lycra-clad - Energy
300 miles. Starting September 26, about 200 cyclists, including myself, will embark on a 300 mile, 5-day ride from New York City to the steps of the Capitol in Washington, DC to promote awareness for...
View ArticleThe World Bank and climate change: Six years down the road
My foray into climate change in the World Bank Group started with the drought-affected regions in Andhra Pradesh, India in 2003. The WB had just started thinking about adaptation to climate change and...
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Senator Kerry delivers pre-Copenhagen messages at the World Bank
Photo ©Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered a noteworthy speech this afternoon at the World Bank in Washington DC....
View ArticleTechnology Innovation
As my colleague Mike Toman noted recently, Geoffrey Heal of Columbia University said the following in a recent blog post: "neither costs nor capital requirement will prevent us from decarbonising the...
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Political will, money, ingenuity and cooperation for UN Energy goals
Access to energy services and energy efficiency are the two key messages of the report released in New York April 28 by UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki-moon and his Advisory Group on Energy and Climate...
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Online Resources for Low-Carbon Energy and Development
An important series of meetings on the Climate Investment Funds, hosted by the African Development Bank, began June 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. At one of the first events, discussion focused on how...
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More (and Targeted) Financing Needed to Expand Energy Access
Energy poverty cripples development prospects. Where people don’t have access to modern energy services, like reliable electricity, their ability to earn a livelihood is sabotaged. That’s why UN...
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Talking to the UN Security Council about Climate Change
Last week, I had the honor of speaking to the UN Security Council about an increasingly dangerous threat facing cities and countries around the world, a threat that, more and more, is influencing...
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The National Adaptation Programmes of Action
The National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) are the most prominent national efforts in the least developed countries (LDCs) to identify priority areas for climate change adaptation. Now that...
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