Episode 3 in this series on principles to follow when ranking environmental projects. This one discusses the “with versus without” principle for estimating the project benefits.  Through the series, we will cover a number of points about the estimation of benefits from an environmental project. Initially, to keep things simple, I’ll talk about the case read more »

Episode 2 in this series on principles to follow when ranking environmental projects. This one discusses one aspect of the metric used to rank projects: how to include costs. Suppose you manage an environmental program that has a budget available for spending on environmental projects and there is not enough money to fund every proposed read more »

Environmental organisations need to rank projects that they could potentially invest in. Often it is done poorly. This post starts a series on how to do it better. The funding available for environmental projects and policies is a small percentage of the money we would need to deal comprehensively with all environmental problems. As a read more »