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Feature / SEI researchers discuss the health impacts of air pollution, and the related health questions and policy lessons emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Other publication / The study examined the evidence gap regarding alternatives to burn-rotation management of heather dominated UK blanket bog on carbon, water and biodiversity.

SEI brief / Off-grid solar electricty will be key to low-carbon energy transitions. How can climate finance be mobilized to scale it up?

Journal article / Find out the potential to mitigate emissions across the consumption domains of food, housing, transport and others.

Perspective / To go beyond ambition and enhance the effectiveness of NDCs, countries need to improve the transparency, coherence and implementability of NDCs.

Feature / A special issue of Climate Policy edited by SEI’s Richard Klein and Pieter Pauw identified three dimensions of making NDCs more effective.

Perspective / SEI's Georgia Piggot and Peter Erickson explain "carbon lock-in" and how countries can avoid — and undo — this addiction to fossil fuels.

Perspective / Citizen science initiatives that can help you connect with and support nature.

Journal article / Read the results of a survey of the adaptation community about their views on high-end climate change.

Perspective / To provide for the world in a sustainable way, current agricultural and food systems need transformative action.

Other publication / Learn how one country’s progress towards the SDGs is affected by actions in other countries

Perspective / A narrow focus on removal-based offsets -- such as those for forestry projects -- can be counterproductive to meeting climate goals.

Feature / The Covid-19 pandemic could influence regulations on the use and consumption of wild animals worldwide.

SEI report / Read a summary of discussions from a workshop in Colombia on different visions for the country's bioeconomy.

Journal article / Read how environmental issues can provide arguments for maintaining or even strengthening conflicts rather than fostering peace between states.

Journal article / This paper investigates whether inter-state negotiation over environmental issues can lead to more peaceful relations in areas with borderland conflict.

Perspective / Clean, accessible water is a human right, and universal access is essential to global health. Effective water planning can help us get there.

Past event / SEI Tallinn and the Estonian Association for Environmental Management are organizing a webinar to discuss implementing a circular economy in the textile sector.

Perspective / The pandemic is shining a light on inequalities. In the recovery, we must rethink the dynamics that shape them.

Other publication / A proposed UK strategic approach to overcome the challenge of commodity-driven deforestation and land conversion in UK supply chains.