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Paul Steele

Chief economist, Shaping Sustainable Markets

Paul Steele is an economist specialising on the linkages between environment, climate and poverty reduction. He has more than 20 years' experience working for international organisations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the European Union, the World Bank and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, as well as the UK and the Sri Lankan governments. 

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Paul Steele's projects

A sea turtle

Tackling the debt, climate and nature crises together

Project, Jun 2020
Elephants roam the plain in Kenya

Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka

Project, Oct 2018
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)

Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management

Project, Apr 2016

Latest publications

Tackling the triple crisis. Using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19

Making the market work for nature

Bearing the climate burden: how households in Bangladesh are spending too much

Human–wildlife conflict and insurance. Can insurance reduce the costs of living with wildlife?

Subsidy reform and distributive justice in fisheries

No hidden catch - Mainstreaming values of small-scale fisheries in national accounts

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Paul Steele's blog posts

Two men with vests from the Red Cross in front of a destroyed building

Here’s how to propel a green recovery for the poorest

Blog, Apr 2021
Aerial view of forest

The Dasgupta Review needed to engage today's finance ministers: here’s how

Blog, Feb 2021
View of the coast, with a small island surrounded by water, seen from some foliage

Choosing a sustainable way out of the pandemic’s economic chaos

Blog, Oct 2020
A baby orangutan clings to its mother as she hangs from a branch

Making the market work for nature while helping to tackle poverty

Blog, Mar 2020
A man looking up at a partially constructed roof

Bearing the climate burden – Bangladesh families are paying too much

Blog, Sep 2019
Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya

Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?

Blog, Mar 2019
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