Through research, education and outreach, the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU) works to enhance policy-making in the field of environmental and natural resource economics and support sustainable development and poverty reduction in South Africa and Southern Africa.
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Professor Amin Karimu explores Africa’s future in his inaugural lecture
At the beginning of October, Professor Amin Karimu held his inaugural lecture celebrating his promotion to full professor at the School of Economics. The lecture explored how Africa can convert its natural and human resources into growth.
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EPRU hosts inaugural GreenFi PhD Workshop
From 8-10 April 2026, EPRU successfully hosted its first GreenFi PhD Workshop, which brought together three doctoral students, and three project leaders and administrators from the Danish Institute for Internationale Studier (DIIS) and EPRU
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EPRU Researchers contribute to major international study identifying “a private solution trap” in collective global challenges like climate change.
Researchers from the EPRU contributed to a new international study, published in PNAS, that finds a consistent pattern in collective action problems such as climate change. EPRU researchers led the South African branch of the research
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EfD builds researchers’ capacity in writing successful grant proposals
EfD South Africa researcher Professor Yonas Alem ran a grant writing workshop in collaboration with EfD Director Gunnar Kohlin, which showed participants the core parts of successful and competitive project and program proposals.
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