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Perspective / Integrating health in nationally determined contributions (NDCs) can motivate ambitious climate actions.

Tool / Explore Commodity Footprints, a public dashboard using GEIC data to show how consumption links to environmental impacts across global supply chains.

SEI report / This report describes the methodologies of a new experimental statistic that will act as an indicator of the global environmental impacts of UK consumption.

Past event / In this webinar, experts discussed the social impacts of a transition to a circular economy in cities.

SEI brief / Financial support for countries that bear disproportionate effects of climate change has stalled for years. COP26 must spur real progress, researchers argue.

Press / Loss and damage support for countries experiencing catastrophic effects of climate change has stalled for eight years. This SEI analysis charts a way forward.

Perspective / World leaders attending the UN climate talks in Glasgow must commit to stopping commodity-driven deforestation if they are to prevent climate catastrophe.

SEI report / This report focuses on “active engagement”, where investors engage with high-emitting sectors, to impact green transition in four key industries.

SEI brief / This assessment looks at the latest round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and the progress made in raising industry transition ambition levels.

Perspective / Effective stewardship of Arctic wetlands, including conservation and restoration efforts, can buy time by contributing to climate mitigation and adaptation.

SEI brief / The fragmented climate finance landscape needs to develop a cohesive strategy to deploy aid most effectively for the countries that benefit from the funding.

Perspective / Countries need to pair their emission reduction commitments with clear and transparent plans to wind down fossil fuel production.

Past event / Leading authors of the 2021 Production Gap Report walk through a detailed review of the report's findings. Watch the webinar.

Journal article / Aging manufacturing infrastructure for producing steel is a major culprit for climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. A shift to new technologies will help.

Press release / The steel industry risks doubling its share of the global carbon budget, a new study by SEI and the University of Sussex Business School suggests.

Press release / Kenya, Canada, Japan and Portugal hosted a high-level blue economy side event in New York to launch an SEI-authored sustainable blue economy book.

Press release / Over the next two decades, governments are collectively projecting an increase in global oil and gas production, and only a modest decrease in coal production.

Feature / The 2021 Production Gap Report shows governments' fossil fuel production plans remain dangerously out of sync with the Paris Agreement’s temperature limits.

Media coverage / SEI's Philip Osano talks about building the scientific knowledge base for informed policy action on the blue economy in Africa.

Journal article / What drives the market in green bonds? Read a new study from Norway and Sweden.