Development Goals, Emissions Costs? Climate and Development Finance vis-à-vis Local CO₂ EmissionsDec 11, 2025Follow Created with assistance of nano bananaOngoing work Climate Finance Development finance CO2 emissions Causal inference Machine learningPierre BeaucoralPhD Candidate in Development EconomicsI’m a development economist in training at CERDI. I spend most of my time debugging my R and Python codes trying to understand where “climate money” goes, what it is for, what it changes locally, and how data and ML can help answer these questions.