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Feature / Today’s clothing industry has huge environmental impacts which the new project Towards a Nordic-Baltic Circular Textile System tries to mitigate.

Perspective / The livelihoods of the 350 million smallholder farmers in Asia are being threatened by unprecedented societal change. How can we better secure them?

Feature / Asia's small-scale farmers are vital to its future. SEI Asia Director Niall O'Connor calls for greater support, paired with food value chain innovation.

Journal article / How do reforestation gains stack up against deforestation embedded in consumption?

Other publication / This chapter examines the causes and effects of trade and land-use telecouplings.

Other publication / Wetlands provide critical ecosystem benefits. This study inventories Arctic wetlands and reviews current knowledge on these unique environments.

Journal article / A pan-tropical survey of emissions, coupled with supply-chain mapping, links emissions to consumer markets.

Feature / A look at phosphorus from mine to fork, problems it causes on the ocean and how we can leverage innovation to recover and reuse phosphorus.

Journal article / Can trading environmentally-based commodities as financial assets effectively protect ecosystems? This paper discusses the question of ecosystem valuation.

Perspective / SEI researchers Felipe Benavides and Jeanne Fernandez reflect on a recent tour of Bolivia's Tupiza watershed, where residents have "lost everything."

Other publication / What are the risks and uncertainties of implementing geothermal power and sustainable production and use of charcoal in Kenya?

Journal article / Research in Cambodia into how social innovation around positive and negative health messaging influences demand for clean biomass cookstoves.

Past event / At this round table, panelists will present the scope and activities of the Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution and Climate Change in Africa.

Other publication / UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook calls on decision makers to take action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the SDGs.

Press release / SEI is starting a collaboration with Fabege to help create sustainable and socially beneficial urban and regional development in Stockholm by 2050.

Feature / Africa could reach nearly a quarter of its energy needs from clean renewable energy by 2030. What are the challenges to realising this potential?

Media coverage / Environmental issues in the upcoming Thai elections.

Media coverage / Access to water and sanitation affects not only survival but also the possibility to live a socially and culturally fulfilling life.

Media coverage / Project uses creative methods to engage informal settlement community

Perspective / Special attention should be paid to integrated policy making and budgeting, securing the natural resource base, and building strong and inclusive democracies.