Cities should consider declaring climate emergencies to catalyse public awareness on climate risks and initiate policy and community action.
The theme of this year's annual SEI Science Forum is environmental governance and diplomacy in the post-globalization era.
Stockholm Environment Institute:
bridging science and policy
We are an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges.
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City health and wellbeing
Governing bioeconomy pathways
Climate services
Gender and social equality programme
Behaviour and choice
Producer to consumer sustainability
Global finance
Sustainable sanitation
Low emission development pathways
Transforming development and disaster risk
Fossil fuels and climate change
SEI has seven centres in the UK, the US, Thailand, Kenya, Estonia and Colombia. Our headquarters is in Sweden.
SEI's work supports the integration of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into policy and action.
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Resettlement planning after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has led to displacement of farmers that had been living on land for generations.
After beginning his career as an industrial chemist, the Kyoto Protocol inspired Michael to make a bigger impact. Now he works at SEI, tackling deforestation.