The Fletcher School's Climate Policy Lab (CPL) at Tufts University is an initiative that works to determine which climate policies work, which don't and why.
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Since economic development and natural resource endowments differ across countries, government expenditures in energy technological innovations should reflect country energy potential and align with sustainable development goals. In addition to global public energy RD&D spending patterns identified from the Climate Policy Lab’s updated database, country-level analysis yields further insights.
Cities around the world are confronting the increasing frequency and severity of disasters due to climate change, and it is the urban poor who are most affected. Globally, urban informal settlements (so-called “slum areas”) are expanding rapidly, in part because of rural to urban migration. The environmental and public health challenges these settlements face are exacerbated by climate impacts like flooding and extreme heat. In an article in the Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate Justice, we explore environmental problems in informal settlements in two African cities: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Kampala, Uganda.
The Climate Policy Lab recently updated an expansive dataset that reports global public expenditures on the research, development and demonstration of energy efficiency, fossil fuels, renewable energy sources, nuclear, hydrogen and fuel cells, power and storage technologies, other cross-cutting technologies and research and unallocated budgets from 2000 to 2022. Kate Chi examines the data’s patterns.