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The international climate risk and adaptation team works to understand, manage and support adaptation to climate risk, particularly as it cascades across national borders and threatens to disrupt global systems. We are interested in how the “next generation” of climate risk can be better managed and governed across scales – the new coalitions that will rise to meet the challenge, the innovative solutions that will reduce the risks, the effective diplomacy that will strengthen systemic, equitable and just resilience.
We are a geographically dispersed team and thrive on connection and collaboration. We understand climate risk as interconnected and borderless – a whole-of-society challenge that requires a whole-of-society response. With our expertise in global climate risk and policy, transnational governance and international finance, we advance the dialogues and catalyse the cooperation needed to better manage climate risk in an interconnected world. Our efforts to drive global cooperation on adaptation reflect our own ethos and approach – to work collaboratively with one another and in cooperation with many actors around the world, cutting across silos and sectors.
Team Leader: International Climate Risk and Adaptation; Senior Research Fellow
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Perspective / Katherine Browne explains the barriers found in Madagascar and Mauritius, and insights on how to improve financing of climate adaptation projects.
26 November 2023 / About Climate policy and Finance
Feature / SEI Policy Fellow, Mikael Allan Mikaelsson, explores the current state of adaptation in the Nordic region, shedding light on key challenges and steps forward.
10 July 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Disaster Risk
Feature / Researchers from the CASCADES project develop and test policy recommendations for the EU on trade, foreign policy and finance.
23 May 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Disaster Risk
Feature / The Global Transboundary Climate Risk Report provides insights on 10 transboundary climate risks that remain overlooked in climate policies.
19 April 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Finance and Supply Chains
Perspective / Information about projects to help adapt to climate change is scattered, hard-to-find and incomplete, making keeping track of them impossible.
26 April 2023 / About Adaptation
Feature / Frida Lager discusses the journey towards just resilience in European climate adaptation using the context of urban areas to illustrate some key findings.
1 June 2023 / About Adaptation, Cities and Climate policy
Perspective / The objective of COP27, the "Adaptation COP", should be to forge international cooperation to deliver global and systemic resilience.
21 September 2022 / About Adaptation
Perspective / A call to invest in adaptation both in the Nordics and in other countries impacted by climate change at the Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation
18 April 2023 / About Climate policy, Finance and Supply Chains
Feature / In this Q&A, SEI Senior Research Fellow Francis X. Johnson discusses the IPCC Synthesis Report's significance, highlights and key takeaways.
20 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Disaster Risk, Finance, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Mitigation and Sustainable Development Goals
Feature / SEI Research Associate Frida Lager discusses understanding climate change- related risks in trade affecting the Nordic region by looking at coffee production.
2 November 2022 / About Food and agriculture and Supply Chains
Feature / The process of setting a new target for climate finance from 2025 onwards is underway. SEI's Katherine Browne explains how the first dialogue went.
4 May 2022 / About Climate policy and Finance
Other publication / The EU is not prepared to manage cascading climate risks. This report presents 21 strategic recommendations for building resilience in Europe and beyond.
23 November 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster Risk and Finance
Other publication / This roadmap proposes key actions towards addressing and managing transboundary and cascading climate risks in Africa.
3 September 2023 / About Adaptation and Climate policy
Other publication / This policy brief presents the findings from the report "Comparison and analysis of national adaptation policies in the Nordic region".
1 September 2023 / About Adaptation and Climate policy
Other publication / This brief highlights the importance of cooperation for strengthening regional resilience to cascading climate risks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
1 September 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Disaster Risk
SEI report / This study focuses on Sweden and its place in the global trade system, to develop multi-method approaches to identify and assess trade and climate risks.
21 October 2022 / About Disaster Risk, Finance and Supply Chains
Other publication / This technical paper contributes to making just resilience operational by stocktaking and structuring the knowledge on just resilience in climate adaptation.
29 May 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Disaster Risk
SEI brief / The fragmented climate finance landscape needs to develop a cohesive strategy to deploy aid most effectively for the countries that benefit from the funding.
15 October 2021 / About Finance
Programme / A programme on aligning climate action, reduced inequalities and sustainable development.
2019 - 2024 / About Climate policy and Sustainable Development Goals
Project / The project investigates procedural and distributive equity in decentralised adaptation finance under the Green Climate Fund’s EDA programme
2023 - 2025 / About Climate policy
Project / This project aims to critically examine how the dynamics of geopolitics, human security and global environmental change interrelate.
2017 - 2024 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Geopolitics, Innovation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development Goals
Project / CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies – an EU H2020 project assessing the interconnected impacts of climate change.
2019 - 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Geopolitics, Public policy and Supply Chains
Initiative / The initiative explores implications of transboundary climate risks and strengthens cooperation to meet the global challenge of adaptation to climate change.
2019 - 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Climate services
Project / The Stockholm Climate Security Hub’s aim is to cooperate on research and analysis on climate security as well as to communicate latest knowledge in the field.
2018 - 2021 / About Climate policy
Project / A new generation of action- and user-oriented climate change risk assessments.
2019 - 2022 / About Climate policy
Project / There is a unique opportunity to build climate diplomacy back better in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, our study finds.
2020 - 2021 / About Climate policy, Geopolitics, Innovation and Public policy
Project / SEI research project for the UK Department for International Development examines the effectiveness of climate aid funding.
2020 - 2021 / About Adaptation and Finance
Project / The project examines what enables and obstructs the coordination of climate finance.
2018 - 2021 / About Finance
Project / This project explains and explores the role of new actors in enhancing the success of adaptation.
2016 - 2020 / About Adaptation and Climate policy
Tool / The Excel-based tool allows users to explore climate risks to global trade by linking climate change impacts on commodity production and country consumption.
About Adaptation, Climate policy, Food and agriculture and Supply Chains
Tool / The NDC Explorer is an interactive visual tool. It provides transparency and comparability data between countries using data from NDCs and INDCS.
About Innovation
Tool / Analyze and compare how climate actions correspond to the Sustainable Development Goals.
About Innovation and Sustainable Development Goals
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