emissions

Citizen training that builds households’ practical capability to segregate waste can deliver large, persistent and socially amplified improvements in waste management, making it a highly cost-effective climate policy in resource-constrained cities.

Fragmented carbon markets, especially voluntary offsets, lack the credibility and scale needed to drive global decarbonisation. A proposal for an opt-in, unified global compliance carbon market could reduce emissions cost-effectively while channelling finance to lower-income countries.

Carbon offset programmes aim to lower emissions by allowing high-income countries to meet part of their reduction targets by financing projects in low- and middle-income countries. Evidence from China—one of the world’s largest suppliers of these pro...

New evidence from Bangladesh shows that aligning business owners' profit motives with environmental and health goals can effectively reduce the harm caused by pollution from brick kilns.

Carbon offset programmes allow polluters to pay others to reduce emissions on their behalf. In theory, this can achieve the same emissions reductions at a lower cost, but only if the payment actually incentivises the recipient to cut emissions. If of...

Firms are reactive to better enforcement of emission controls. This effect is more apparent among firms in industries with higher pollution intensity

A study in Indonesia reveals that foreign acquisitions lead to a 30% improvement in energy efficiency within two years