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Drone view of different vegetation types and water in Lake Connewarre near Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia.

Transboundary climate risks can undermine effective responses to climate change – new evidence shows

Press release / The Global Transboundary Climate Risk Report 2023 reveals new evidence on ten globally significant transboundary climate risks.

20 April 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster Risk and Finance

Aerial view of forestry machinery logging trees

“Everyone’s chasing removals”: SEI’s Derik Broekhoff comments on emissions reduction vs. removals in the carbon market

Media coverage / Senior Scientist Derik Broekhoff spoke to the climate news outlet Heatmap on the tension between carbon removals and emissions in the voluntary carbon market.

17 April 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Mitigation, Pollution and Public policy

Dyke, salt marsh and coastline - aerial view

Adaptation Without Borders launch flagship report on transboundary climate risks

Media advisory / The report presents new evidence on 10 transboundary climate risks of global significance.

17 April 2023 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Transport and Wellbeing

Think2030 Dialogue Sweden: Navigating crisis through sustainability

Media advisory / Join our dialogue convening EU environment ministers, member states and European Commission officials, researchers and policy analysts on EU policy challenges.

12 April 2023 / About Climate policy, Finance and Transport

Oil well in frozen swath of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, before a twilight sky

SEI’s Michael Lazarus to New York Times: US faces ‘contradiction’ between fossil fuel extraction and climate goals

Media coverage / The Biden Administration disappointed climate activists by approving the Willow oil and gas project in Alaska. But that isn't the half of it.

6 April 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Land use, Mitigation, Public policy and Renewables

Biogas plant in agricultural landscape, Czech Republic.

SEI’s Måns Nilsson: EU policymakers exclude transport options with societal benefits

Media coverage / "With the kind of regulatory approach that the EU is taking, they are removing possibilities to use biogas," said SEI's Måns Nilsson in a recent debate.

5 April 2023 / About Fossil fuels, Pollution and Wellbeing

Aerial zenithal view of lake with ice melting.

The risks are starting to pile on, SEI’s Francis X. Johnson warns AP

Media coverage / SEI's Francis X. Johnson speaks to The Associated Press about the recent IPCC Synthesis Report.

20 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Finance, Fossil fuels, Mitigation and Renewables

The place of youth in climate change agenda: SEI’s Sharon Onyango to ‘Daily Nation’

Media coverage / SEI's Graduate Fellow Sharon Onyango, in a Q and A spoke to 'Daily Nation' on the place of youth in the climate change agenda.

20 March 2023 / About Climate policy

IPCC report: urgent need to ramp up climate action

Media advisory / SEI's Francis X. Johnson contributed his expertise to the new climate Synthesis Report launched today by the IPCC.

20 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development Goals

UN 2023 Water Conference – “a watershed moment” for the world’s water challenges

Media advisory / Eight SEI researchers will contribute their expertise to the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York.

16 March 2023 / About Sustainable Development Goals

Two women cook around a wood-burning fire in South Africa.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

13 March 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Forests, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

“The air is killing us” – Chris Malley contributed to Pakistan’s Clean Air Policy

Media coverage / Chris Malley and Syeda Hadika Jamshaid write about Pakistan’s first Clean Air Policy in an op-ed published in Pakistan's largest newspaper.

10 March 2023 / About Climate policy, Pollution, Public policy and Short lived climate pollutants