Energy & Environment

Why some types of oil are worse for the climate

Reducing oil use is vital, but which barrels we extract matters too: shifting production towards low-carbon deposits could have avoided around 10 billion tonnes of CO2e emissions since 1992.

Renaud Coulomb Fanny Henriet Léo Reitzmann

Published

20.01.26

Climate adaptation and vulnerability in Mexico

A one-size-fits-all approach to climate change won’t work in Mexico, where climate adaptation is highly unequal. Currently, private responses such as air conditioning, migration, and financial adjustment play a central role. These mechanisms are ofte...

Energy & Environment

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez

Published

16.01.26

How climate change could trap workers in agriculture

Climate change is likely to keep more labour in agriculture in the very regions where agricultural productivity suffers most, exacerbating the ‘food problem’ just as economies would benefit most from diversifying away from agriculture.

Energy & Environment

Ishan Nath

Published

05.01.26

A proposal for a unified global carbon market

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 channellin...

Energy & Environment

Robin Burgess Rohini Pande

Published

17.12.25

A reversing deforestation mechanism for climate and ecosystem restoration

We need to reduce deforestation, protect standing forests, and incentivise reforestation at scale. The climate depends on it. Here is a proposal that can achieve all three.

Energy & Environment

Juliano Assunção

Published

15.12.25

The rise of Vietnam’s solar panel industry

Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars: foreign direct investment (FDI) (mostly from China), access to subsidised Chinese inputs, and productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic suppliers.

Energy & Environment

Meng Yu Ngov Pierre-Louis Vézina Trang Thu Tran Gaurav Nayyar

Published

01.12.25

Climate change and rural livelihoods: How extreme heat drives international migration from El Salvador

In El Salvador, extreme heat lowers agricultural productivity and rural incomes, pushing farmers – especially those with strong migrant networks – to use international migration as a climate adaptation strategy.

Energy & Environment

Ana María Ibáñez Juliana Quigua Jimena Romero Andrea Velásquez

Published

12.11.25

How communities benefit from rural electrification in Africa

Electrification is often seen as the spark for development. But in much of Africa, the biggest benefits may come not from households plugging in, but from the community services that light up around them.

Energy & Environment

Maika Schmidt Alexander Moradi

Published

08.10.25

How economic evidence – and its gaps – can inform policymaking at COP30

COP30 presents an ambitious agenda for advancing climate goals amid unprecedented global uncertainty. How can the economic evidence covered on VoxDev since COP29 – on biodiversity, agriculture, cities, health, and renewables – and the subsequent gaps...

Energy & Environment

Emaan Siddique

Published

Tue, 07/10/2025 - 12:00