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Affordable electricity in a single pro-market policy reform: The Case for Decoupling Electricity Prices from Gas
Despite renewables now providing a substantial share of electricity generation, consumers are still paying gas-inflated prices
Feb 95 min read
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Climate Finance for Early-Stage Innovations in Low-Income Countries
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC’s) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), climate finance and technological...
Sep 4, 20234 min read
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A just transition
By Naji Makarem 02 February 2023 News Category: Thought Leadership A just transition is perhaps the most important fuzzy concept we must...
Feb 2, 20234 min read
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Local Action Towards Climate Resilience in Urban Areas
An additional 2.5 billion people will be a part of our world by 2050, mostly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Africa...
Nov 21, 20226 min read
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Mobile Big Data for Cities: Urban Climate Resilience Strategies for Low & Middle- Income Countries
Cities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including rising sea...
Nov 2, 20223 min read
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Early Warning Systems in the Philippines: Building resilience through mobile & digital technologies
The Philippines consistently ranks as one of the countries most affected by natural hazards in the world. Typhoons, storms, floods,...
Nov 2, 20223 min read
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How start-ups can help bridge the gap in public service provision in developing countries
How start-ups can help bridge the gap in public service provision in developing countries
Oct 25, 20222 min read
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Zero-waste settlements: A vision of circular humanitarian settings
A child running barefoot in a refugee camp with a big smile on his or her face is heart warming; if there’s garbage around it’s a shame...
Oct 24, 20224 min read
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The UrbanEmerge team has grown!
Throughout 2021 UrbanEmerge continued to learn and evolve. We had the privilege to engage with various new clients and to further...
Jan 12, 20222 min read
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Circular economy innovation challenge for students at Bristol and Zhejiang Universities
By Naji Makarem & Andreas Beavor At UrbanEmerge we’ve recently been exploring viable circular economy solutions for a range of clients....
Jun 26, 20214 min read
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Green recovery after Covid prioritised by firms.
Author: Froeydis Gording (BD & PM Lead at UrbanEmerge) Co-authors/reviewer: Andreas Beavor (UrbanEmerge Partner) At UrbanEmerge, we were...
Jul 17, 20202 min read
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UrbanEmerge Recruitment: Business Development & PM Lead
Deadline: CLOSED (Position Filled July 2020) Congratulations to Froeydis Gording for becoming our first recruit and Business Development...
Jul 4, 20191 min read
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Resettlement & Complementary Pathways
Authors: Joanne Van-Selm and Naji Makarem (on behalf of our team) UrbanEmerge was commissioned by the Durable Solutions Platform (DSP) to...
Dec 21, 20184 min read
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Why the Smartest City Solutions Put People and Environment First
There is a lot of hype around the term ‘smart city’ and its definition can be ambiguous. At UrbanEmerge, we refer to smart cities as...
Sep 4, 20184 min read
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Why it’s Important to Make Cities Accessible for Everyone
Working with World Enabled, UrbanEmerge has recently led a project for the INGO Humanity & Inclusion (formerly Handicap International)....
Aug 3, 20184 min read
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Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks could Employ Hundreds of Thousands of Young Women
While working in Ethiopia recently I witnessed first-hand the phenomenal transformation the county is bringing about through attracting...
Jul 11, 20183 min read
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Green Urbanism in Asia: How Hangzhou in China is making Impressive Progress
In their great book ‘Green Urbanism in Asia’, Peter Newman and Anne Matan suggest that green urbanism is the recognition that cities make...
Jul 1, 20184 min read
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UK off-site manufacturing & modular construction
UrbanEmerge has recently completed a scoping review of modern construction methods in the UK. Here’s what we found: The UK is facing a...
Jun 14, 20182 min read
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Friendships matter for urban economies
The culture and social structure of a metropolitan region is as important as it’s physical architecture and infrastructure, if not more...
Nov 27, 20175 min read
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The rise & fall of urban economies
In our recent co-authored book, Michael Storper, Tom Kemeny, Taner Osman and I investigate the income divergence of two advanced...
Nov 22, 20171 min read
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