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Kampala, Uganda – December 19, 2025 — The Environment for Development (EfD) Uganda Centre at Makerere University has taken stock of its 2025 achievements and outlined its strategic direction for 2025–2029, with a strong focus on energy transition, climate change, and sustainable natural resource management. The reflections were shared during the Centre’s annual end-of-year celebration, […]

Kampala, Uganda – August 27, 2025A new study spanning a decade has revealed that the prices currently offered for carbon credits and other climate finance instruments are too low to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. The findings were presented by Canadian scholar Prof. Mark Purdon during a seminar at Makerere University, where […]

Dr. Jackson Efitre, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Zoology, Entomology, and Fisheries Sciences, College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), Makerere University has been appointed as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report. He was amongst the 664 experts nominated by governments and selected by the IPCC Bureau […]

Environmental Economists from Makerere University and stakeholders in environment and natural resources sectors have expressed the need for Uganda to establish a Green Fund to finance green initiatives. The dons have also proposed and re-echoed known initiatives that require mind-set change and government commitment to infrastructural developments that can reduce environmental pollution. Environmentalists also want […]