Background: WRI’s Energy Program speeds the transition to a low-carbon, inclusive energy future by helping to build clean energy markets and change institutions. The US Energy team focuses on the decarbonization of the power and transportation sectors, with a focus on working with cities, large energy buyers, and utilities. We take public commitments as a […]
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Job Opportunity// Senior Energy Analyst
Background: ENERTRAG South Africa is a clean energy developer and is a subsidiary of ENERTRAG AG, an independent energy company in Germany, France, Ghana, Vietnam and expanding to other areas of the globe. As an independent energy company, ENERTRAG generates electricity, hydrogen, and heat exclusively from renewable sources and supplies safe, inexpensive renewable energy to […]
Job Opportunity// External Surveyors for Water and Energy for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development
Job Description: WE4F’s USAID Secretariat Unit is seeking External Surveyors to provide monitoring and evaluation support by conducting in-country field research and data collection with WE4F innovators in Egypt, Lebanon, Cambodia, and Indonesia. M&E External Surveyors should be current or recent graduate students with a background in agriculture, water, energy, technology innovation, environmental studies, research methods, international business, and/or […]
Job Opportunity// Global Water Partnership (GWP) Eastern Africa Consultant
Global Water Partnership is implementing the “Continental African Water Investment Programme” Water, Climate, Development, and Gender Investments Programme (AIP-WACDEP-G). The goal of the AIP-WACDEP-G is to ensure that the preparation, development, design, governance, and management of ongoing and new climate-resilient water infrastructure investments, institutions, and job creation interventions strategically advance gender equality. The overall objective is to transform […]
Does investing in nature actually deliver development at the local level?
This report provides insights into the types of direct, site-based interventions that can help or hinder the achievement of development outcomes for local people and, ultimately, the delivery of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the SDGs. Focusing specifically on poorer (low- and lower-middle-income) countries, it explores documented evidence that ‘nature-based interventions’ or ‘investments in nature’ […]
NEXUS Gains: Realizing Multiple Benefits Across Water-Energy-Food-Forest-Biodiversity Systems
Water, energy, food, forest, and biodiversity systems are under extreme pressure from climate change and other anthropogenic activities. There has been a lack of mechanisms to account for the integrated nature of these systems and inadequate knowledge to best retain these forests and biodiversity and assist sustainable irrigation, clean energy, and agro-processing needs. Especially, women, […]
Job Opportunity// Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow – Program Leader in Khartoum, Sudan.
Job Description: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow and leader of IFPRI’s new Sudan Country Strategy Support Program (SSSP). This is a 2-year, exempt, renewable appointment in IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division and is based in Khartoum, Sudan. The final grade […]
Job Opportunity// Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow at Khartoum, Sudan
Job Description: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow for a 2-year, renewable, exempt appointment in its Development Strategy and Governance Division. This position is based in Khartoum, Sudan as part of IFPRI’s new Sudan Country Strategy Support Program (SSSP). The candidate will […]
Job Opportunity// Senior Research Fellow on Water, Food and Ecosystems at SEI in Thailand
Job Description: The Stockholm Environment Institute is looking for a senior team player, innovative thinker, and solution-oriented doer with strong management and fundraising skills and someone who enjoys working for a prosperous and just future for all. If you are an outstanding leader in your field and a dynamic, passionate and curious individual, willing to […]
Online course // A Data Light Approach to Monitoring Climate Resilience
Background and Course Description: Environmental scientists and development practitioners have bemoaned the absence of a simple and easy-to-understand approach to “implementing” the Nexus. Inspired by the release of Boundary Science in 2021, a new short course has been developed that also reflects on the lessons emerging from executing a Belmont Forum project on cyber-enabled disaster resilience. A […]