🪴This spring J-PAL North America launched our inaugural #ClimateActionLearningLab to support state & local leaders in leveraging data and evaluation to advance climate solutions that work.
Read this 🧵 to learn more 👇🏼

Excited to continue this work with @gpsucsd.bsky.social colleague @teevrat.bsky.social and others from the J-PAL network across the U.S. and Canada. Lots of opportunities to better understand which climate actions and policies actually have impact, and how cost-effective different ones are.

New WP alert! 🚨

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Thanks Nature News & Views for inviting Kate Ricke & me to discuss research by Philip Wollburg, Stephane Hallegatte, & Daniel Gerszon Mahler on whether eliminating extreme poverty globally is compatible with climate change mitigation. The answer is yes, we can do both. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The complexity of the land use and food system transformation challenge requires science-based pathways analysis and new government inter-agency coordination.
Guido Schmidt Traub and I discuss on Apolitical
apolitical.co/solution-art...

Improving air quality in the workplace. Evidence from South Asia Air purifiers have the potential to mitigate the adverse effects of air pollution in the workplace. However, it's crucial to understand that air purifiers, when installed solely at the workplace, can ...

New #RCT evidence showing air quality improvements (~37%) from air purifiers in textile factories in Dhaka improve worker productivity by 27%. 24-hour average indoor air pollution levels in study factories are ~70mg/m3.

blogs.worldbank.org/developmentt...

#Econsky: we’re hiring! The UConn Econ department is looking for an environmental economist w/expertise in applying AI/ML tools to climate change and natural disaster Qs, part of a 5-position college-wide cluster hire in climate AI/ML. Please share widely!

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Opinion | El Niños Are Predictable. We Should Prepare for Their Possibly Disastrous Consequences. Rich countries must deepen their assistance to developing countries in the path of the weather pattern.

Excellent (research-backed) piece on proactively addressing risks of predictable climate events co-authored by my brilliant colleague @gmccord.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/o...

Thanks Uma!

Opinion | El Niños Are Predictable. We Should Prepare for Their Possibly Disastrous Consequences. Rich countries must deepen their assistance to developing countries in the path of the weather pattern.

Powerful op-ed on global lack of preparation for El Niño from three graduates of the @ColumbiaSIPA @SIPASusDev PhD program: Amir Jina, @jessexjesse.bsky.social, Gordon McCord. Bravo! #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/o...