Our work is helping the Government of Nepal to strengthen its policy framework, build robust evidence on vulnerabilities to improve decision-making, and develop a climate finance roadmap.

Following the COP26 theme of 'energy transition' we look at how advances in electricity transmission technology are making very long-distance connections between centres of high renewable energy generation potential and areas of high electricity demand possible.

In the first episode of the new series of our Policy in Pandemics podcast, Acting Chief Economist, Stevan Lee talks to Selim Raihan, Professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka and Executive Director at SAMEM, about the economic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis in Bangladesh.

For the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2021, Finn Tarp, Nikos Tzavidis, Peter Lanjouw and Lucy Scott explore what the evolving global pandemic may mean for extreme poverty and how big data might play a role in helping us to understand it.

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In the run up to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), which will take place in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021, we focus on three key priorities – climate finance, energy transition and nature-based solutions.

Climate finance is first on the agenda at COP26. Countries hardest hit by the climate crisis are often the poorest and have contributed the least to climate change. Who should fund climate adaption, loss and damage and how?

Opportunities to benefit climate and increase fiscal revenues exist. Ahead of COP26, we discuss how producing countries can use technologies and increased regulation for global good.