SEI US is pleased to announce the merging of three research areas into one powerful new group: the Climate and Equity program.

Senior Scientist Emily Ghosh, who joined SEI in 2016, heads the new program. It combines the former Climate Policy, Equitable Transitions, and Sustainable Bioenergy and Development programs. 

Now, these powerhouse programs will be able to collaborate more directly as one on their already-overlapping areas of expertise. The groups are responsible for key SEI US outputs such as the Production Gap Report, Emissions Inequality Dashboard and Fossil Fuel Atlas, as well as research on animal welfare, carbon markets, scaling up renewable energy and clean cooking policies and practices across lower-income countries. 

This move provides multiple benefits to SEI US researchers under this program and to the US Centre’s goals more broadly. 

“By bringing our programs together, we become better positioned to fundraise, stronger in hiring and retaining talent, and can have deeper collaboration where our work intersects,” Ghosh says. 

The Climate and Equity program focuses on climate change mitigation policy and explores how to achieve socially and economically just transitions from emissions-intensive energy, food, and land use systems. Its research is used by communities, governments, civil society groups, and private companies to drive more equitable and ambitious climate action at local, national, and global levels.