Energy, Environment and Development Current Projects

Current Projects

Biofuels and Sustainable Development

Liquid biofuels - fuels from plant materials - have been heavily promoted by some governments as a possible way of meeting the growing world demand for energy without some...

Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe

The Chatham House Report - Changing Climates: Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe is available for download in English and Chinese. The European Union (EU) and...

Forests of The Democratic Republic of Congo

This project will explore new models for the conservation and sustainable management of the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and for financing these activities. A number of...

Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector

A joint Chatham House - CEPMLP Project Between 2005 and 2007, the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House led a major initiative on Good Governance of the National...

Illegal Logging

Illegal logging and the international trade in illegally logged timber is a major problem for many timber-producing countries, especially in the developing world. It causes environmental damage, costs governments...

Livestock-Sector Governance

The Livestock Governance project - jointly implemented with the STEPS Centre at the Institute for Development Studies - focuses on the lessons from the recent response to highly pathogenic...

Low Carbon Zones in China

Building on the successful work of the Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe project, this 18 month project with E3G, the Chinese Academy of Social...

Managing Energy: for Climate and Security

In the past half-century a vast array of government and corporate entities have come to manage energy, or some aspect of energy, in one way or another. They have...

Procurement for Development Forum

Agricultural goods account for half of Africa's exports. Production of food products for the UK market sustains livelihoods in countries across the continent. When successful, such trade can provide...

Regulating Nanotechnologies in the EU and US

Nanotechnology, a multidisciplinary field of applied science and engineering, allows the design and creation of objects at molecular scale (a nanometer is one billionth of a metre). With a...

Renewable Energy Finance Project

Investment into renewable energy started a period of exponential growth in 2004-2005. By 2008 the sector was becoming a mainstream energy investment opportunity and for the first time, investment...

Resource Depletion, Dependence and Development

Choices relating to resource depletion rates, domestic energy policy and economic diversification that are made now will have wide-ranging national and global impacts - yet there has been little...

Sustainable Fisheries Governance and Trade

Fish stocks and fishing communities face unprecedented threats and challenges to their sustainability and existence. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) estimates that 80% of fisheries...

The Fossil Fuels Expert Roundtable

The role that fossil fuels will play in meeting energy demand is a central question for both energy and climate security at the global level. The political and investment...

Trade, Finance and Climate Change

Trade and investment can play a key role in facilitating the worldwide transition to a low carbon economy through creating new market incentives. Increased trade and investment can also...

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is the most important component of the international regime that governs the oceans. The Convention was concluded in 1982 after...

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