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The Importance of Negative Evidence
Rob Van Den Berg is the Director of the Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office (GEFEO).
Climate Mitigation Evaluations: Guidelines
Berlin-based renewable energy policy expert and former program officer at the Global Environment Facility,Christine Wörlen has detailed out clear guidelines to help those evaluating climate mitigation interventions at local, national, sectoral or global levels.
In India, the Solar Mission is meeting the target for solar PV but not for solar thermal
In 2010, India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) set a target to develop 20,000 MW of solar energy by 2022.
Could one of the cheapest Concentrated Solar Power plants be a turning point for this technology?
Gianleo Frisari is a fellow at Climate Policy Initiative, an organization that analyzes the effectiveness of the most important energy and land use policies around the world.
Developing countries not yet adapted to floods, droughts and storm, says IEG
A new report from the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank, ?developing countries are not yet well adapted even to current climate risk
How better monitoring and law enforcement saved 59,500 sq. km of the Amazon - an area the size of a small country
The Amazon is the world?s largest rainforest, but protecting it from illegal deforestation is a challenge nearly as immense as the forest itself. In a previous study, CPI has discussed explanations for a slowdown in the rate of forest clearings observed in the 2000s.
Under Utilization of Climate Change Evaluations results from Poor Media Strategy. Do you agree?
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Importance of Negative Evidence
The Director of the Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office (GEFEO), Rob Van Den Berg has told an audience that negative evidence emanating from evaluations is vital to tackling global problems afresh.
A Framework to Evaluate 'LoCAL' Projects in Southeast Asia
LoCAL is the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility. It is a United Nations facility for investment in local level climate resilience.
How can we Help Policy Makers Make Sense of Climate Change Evaluation Studies?
At various levels of Governments in the world, policy makers and those in decision-making positions are recieving evaluation reports regularly. While the methodology, conclusions and recommendations of some of the studies are clear and straight to the point, it is not the case for others.