Policy Insights in Environment, Energy, and Climate Change

Despite their positive results in the lab, biomass cookstoves designed to reduce smoke exposure and/or increase fuel efficiency did not substantially improve health in several randomized evaluations in the real world. Many people did not want to buy or maintain them, did not use them enough, and...

Programs that encouraged investments in residential energy efficiency had limited returns in several impact evaluations in real-world settings. Relatively small impacts on energy savings coupled with low take-up meant that encouraging these investments through information campaigns and subsidies was...

Dans de nombreux contextes, des interventions consistant à informer les individus de leur consommation d’énergie ou d’eau par rapport à celle de leurs voisins et à leur donner des conseils pour faire des économies d’eau ou d’énergie ont systématiquement permis de réduire modérément la consommation.