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Journal article / The TOAR-Vegetation report provides recommendations to facilitate a more complete global assessment of future ozone impacts on vegetation.

Journal article / Harro van Asselt and a team of researchers argue that applying carbon charges, not trade tariffs, to imports would bolster the Paris Agreement.

Feature / Harro van Asselt answers questions about how to promote climate ambition and respond to trade protectionism – a concept he and colleagues outline in Nature.

Feature / The lexicon is a tool by Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre to support financial actors. It provides a common terminology in sustainable finance.

Feature / Tropical forests are rich in carbon and biodiversity. As the world seeks to curb climate change, will protecting tropical forests also ensure species survival?

Press release / Trade and climate policy experts advocate tying together the international trade and climate change agendas by levying carbon charges on targeted imports.

Past event / SEI's Sustainable Lifestyles and Education programme is organising a half-day workshop in New York on sustainable lifestyles in conjunction with the UN HLPF.

Journal article / This article outlines why it is important that Parties to the Paris Agreement explicitly address the phasing out of fossil fuel production under the UNFCCC.

Journal article / How can science and technology help reduce disaster risk? This paper provides a roadmap for Asia by describing fourteen actions and six proposals.

Feature / The climate calculator estimates people's carbon footprint and helps them adapt their lifestyles.

Feature / The Asia Pacific region faces growing challenges for disaster risk reduction. SEI's TDDR Initiative presented its case for DRR transformation at AMCDRR 2018.

SEI working paper / This report finds that WEF nexus research has not validated claims that nexus approaches can improve resource management and governance outcomes.

Other publication / This book chapter looks at what approaches are required to understand and manage trees better, with a human dimension.

Journal article / This paper develops a global index of exposure to transnational climate impacts.

Journal article / This paper reports on an assessment of governance and policy literature to determine if and how accountability regimes are compatible with policy integration.

Perspective / Could it be that Agenda 2030 is becoming a unifying compass steering actors to come together, discuss and debate, think, and take action?

Past event / Between 1 and 8 July 2018 SEI experts will participate at Almedalen, one of the world's largest democratic gatherings for social issues.

Feature / The information boards installed on the changing cabins on Pirita beach in Tallinn, Estonia, provide information on the issue of plastic waste in the sea.

Feature / The Chindwin River Basin Organisation in Myanmar will improve water monitoring and management for the benefit of all who rely on this crucial river.

Journal article / This paper explains how ozone affects arable crops and how these processes can be incorporated into existing crop models.