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News·Oct 4, 2025

Earthshot Prize Names State of Gujarat a Finalist for Groundbreaking Work on Air Pollution Conducted with the Emissions Market Accelerator

Researchers affiliated with the Emissions Market Accelerator helped the Indian state of Gujarat design and launch the world's first particulate pollution market. That project is now a finalist for the world’s most prestigious and impactful environmental award, The Earthshot Prize.
News·Oct 3, 2025

New Initiative to Help Governments in the Global South Reduce Pollution and Foster Economic Growth

The Emissions Market Accelerator provides a custom-built solution to make emissions markets work anywhere, for any pollutant, by supporting governments from design to full operation.
News·Aug 13, 2025

Gaining an On-The-Ground Understanding of the Climate and Growth Challenge

Fifteen UChicago undergraduates visited India this summer as part of an immersive India Summer Fellows Program, sponsored by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and UChicago Career Advancement.   

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Podcast episode·Oct 6, 2025

Episode 5: Markets for Pollution

 Editor’s Note: We recently launched the Emissions Market Accelerator (EMA), a groundbreaking initiative that helps governments in the Global South design and deploy market solutions to reduce pollution and foster economic growth. Researchers affiliated with the Emissions Market Accelerator helped...
Research Highlights·Sep 10, 2024

Out of the darkness and into the light? Development effects of rural electrification

Does electricity access bring small villages out of poverty?
Podcast episode·Aug 23, 2024

How did the near-extinction of vultures in India contribute to thousands of additional human deaths?

via The Hindu
Eyal Frank explains how the vulture population in India fell from several million to just a few thousand, the sanitation shock this placed on the country when they were no longer available to dispose of dead cattle and how this...
Chart·Feb 26, 2024

Better Weather Forecasts Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

Climate change is making weather more variable, with rainfall patterns becoming less predictable and extreme temperatures occurring more frequently.  Agriculture is particularly sensitive to these changing conditions, jeopardizing the livelihoods of the majority of the world’s poor who depend on...