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Feature / The impacts of climate change that threaten livelihoods in the Sahel region cut across borders. No country alone can overcome the challenges.

Perspective / SEI Asia is working to assess and reduce the risks of floods in the Sai-Ruak transboundary river basin in Mae Sai, northern Thailand along the Myanmar border.

Journal article / Years of practical research in different garment manufacturing units has proven that industrial upcycling is a viable solution to pre-consumer textile waste.

SEI brief / In the Asia-Pacific region, policies that address disaster risk reduction and health increasingly recognize the synergies between the two sectors.

Perspective / A recent global assessment finds current climate adaptation insufficient. We need to scale up financial support and shift to small-scale locally driven models.

Perspective / Providing recognition for land tenure and empowering local communities can promote successful biodiversity conservation in food production.

Perspective / 2022 is a critical year for climate finance. Resolving underlying issues of accountability will help restore trust and enable the ambition to limit warming.

Past event / What risks and opportunities are surfacing? What issues warrant greater attention? Watch the event as SEI experts offer their perspectives.

SEI podcast / Explore how valuing water is key to tackling poverty, climate change and resource equity, with insights from SEI experts across global water initiatives.

Feature / SweDev and the Development and Aid Policy Team is announcing an opportunity for development practitioners to show interest in the Programme Life Cycle Support.

Feature / Kevin M. Adams explains how climate risks to major commodities can be addressed in this film produced by Mistra Geopolitics.

SEI brief / This report highlights the methods used to calculate the chasm in carbon emissions between the world's richest and poorest populations.

Project / Circular and Sustainable Steel Transitions (CAST) continues the work done by SEI and Lund University in the HYBRIT project.

Media coverage / In a Euractiv opinion piece, SEI researchers Timothy Suljada and Charlotte Wagner argue that the EU green finance taxonomy is a tool for tackling pollution.

Perspective / The potential for climate change to exacerbate violent conflict is manifest in Africa. Growing competition over natural resources will likely increase tensions.

Feature / SEI Scientist Emily Ghosh discusses the continued disparity in carbon emissions between the poor and everyone else.

Other publication / The chapter looks at why power imbalances persist in community-based natural resource management and how an adaptive collaborative management approach can help.

Media coverage / Al Jazeera interviewed Bernardas Padegimas about how SEI and Sweden are facilitating the development of the first-ever national environment strategy in BiH.

Media coverage / For more than a decade, SEI's Lawrence Nzuve worked with world-renowned paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey in northern Kenya and spoke to Science on his impact.

Project / A consortium of 16 European organisations supports the European Environment Agency on topics around climate change adaptation and LULUCF.