SEI Asia's work focuses on climate change including climate finance for local adaptation, gender, water resources management, just energy transitions, city health and wellbeing, and capacity development for research in the Mekong Region. Based in Bangkok, our diverse team of multinational experts integrates scientific research with participatory approaches to co-develop and share knowledge, build partnerships, and provide strategic communications to influence policy for resilient development.
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SEI podcast / Trust-based philanthropy in climate adaptation is not just about changing funding mechanisms, but about fundamentally reimagining power relationships.
Perspective / Flooding in Bangkok in late September exposed a critical gap: forecasts identified the threat days in advance, warnings and preparedness did not translate fast.
Perspective / Asia’s next financial revolution must make climate adaptation finance accessible to vulnerable households and small businesses.
Perspective / This article offers lessons from Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, on turning circular economy policy into local action.
Feature / At the Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026, SEI Asia will showcase research and build pathways for climate action through science, dialogue, and engagement.
Feature / SUMERNET was founded with long-term funding from Sida, to strengthen the Mekong Region’s evidence-based policy for sustainable development.
Feature / Key messages from the second Joint Steering Committee (JSC) meeting on water-related collaboration between ONWR and SEI Asia on 20 August 2026
SEI report / This report examines evidence of the outcomes of locally led adaptation, barriers that limit financial support, and measures that can bridge the funding gap.
Journal article / A 40-year village study in Thailand shows how migration, return and circulation shape the country’s ongoing agrarian transition.
SEI brief / This brief is based on a report on implementation of rights of rivers in practice, with lessons from the Turag and Atrato rivers cases.
SEI report / This report examines how the rights of rivers are being implemented in practice through comparative analysis of the Turag and Atrato rivers cases.
Journal article / This paper analyses how transboundary hydropower development in the Mekong River generates injustices against downstream communities in Northeast Thailand.
Journal article / This article explores gender-differentiated lived experiences of fisherfolk in a changing climate in Kurigram, Bangladesh.
SEI report / This report explores the barriers that hinder finance flows for climate adaptation in four Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Thailand.
