Announcements
Announcements
“Decision-makers must close 50-year ‘action gap’ on climate,” writes Canadian public radio blog Eye on the Arctic, quoting from SEI-CEEW’s recently launched “Stockholm+50: Unlocking a Better Future” report, SEI Research Director and Deputy Director Åsa Persson and SEI Research Fellow and Team Lead for the Global Goals and Systems team Nina Weitz.
Journalist Eilís Quinn wrote for Canadian public radio blog Eye on the Arctic about the ongoing UN climate and environment summit Stockholm+50 and the recently launched scientific report by SEI and CEEW, quoting SEI Research Director and Deputy Director Åsa Persson and SEI Research Fellow and Team Lead for the Global Goals and Systems team Nina Weitz.
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We must ensure constructive accountability, which not only emphasizes answerability and responsibility but also incentivizes continuously improving performance and loops of raised ambition. We need to make goals, targets and commitments matter and have value.
Åsa Persson, SEI Research Director and Deputy Director
The ample opportunities for policymakers to take action and the growing momentum for change gives me hope. We see how public opinion reflects the urgency and willingness to change lifestyles, how youth worldwide demand and exercise more agency to fight climate change, environmental degradation and inequity, and that technological development and uptake is occurring faster than anticipated.
Nina Weitz, SEI Research Fellow and Team Lead for the Global Goals and Systems team
SEI report / Ahead of the Stockholm+50 UN international meeting, a landmark report synthesizes thinking on how to build a sustainable planet.
Project / The independent report for the Stockholm+50 meeting proposes policy actions to overcome the barriers that stand in the way of sustainable, equitable development
Media advisory / A letter signed by SEI Executive Director Måns Nilsson to fellow citizens of Earth ahead of Stockholm+50 was published in Nature.
Media coverage / On 30 May 2022, CEEW and SEI released "Portrait of a Silver Lining", a performance poetry music video featuring a young Indian poet, Simar Singh.
Media coverage / French newspaper Les Echos refers to SEI and CEEW's "Stockholm+50: Unlocking a Better Future" launched on 18 May 2022 in an article.
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