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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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Making the invisible visible: locally led adaptation as CARE

SEI podcast / A conversation on CARE – climate adaptation, resilience, and empowerment – as a rigorous necessity for effective locally led adaptation.

8 May 2026 / Environment and policy in Asia / Adaptation

Co-designing the future of water storage management by integrating grey, green and community systems

Perspective / Collaborative and multi-benefit approaches with nature-based solutions can help build a resilient, equitable water future for the Mekong Region.

9 June 2026 / About Water resources

Mangrove seedling with bright green leaves growing among dark tangled roots on a coastal mudflat.

Conviction-led capital: what a new report on Asian philanthropists means for SEI’s climate finance work

Perspective / A small group of Asian philanthropists is funding the risky climate solutions others will not, and SEI can learn from how they work.

4 June 2026 / About Adaptation, Finance, Innovation and Participation

Solar panels mounted across a residential rooftop, with apartment buildings and trees in the background.

Rooftop solar PV – a promising solution for the energy crisis in Thailand

Perspective / The war in Iran and ensuing energy crisis has exposed the vulnerability of Thailand’s energy system – how does solar rooftop PV offer an opportunity?

28 May 2026 / About Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation and Renewables

Time to be systemic: integrating and mainstreaming climate mitigation and adaptation across all scales

Perspective / This perspective argues for a systemic approach by integrating mitigation and adaptation by default into every policy, budget and planning decision.

24 April 2026 / About Adaptation and Mitigation

A crowd of early-morning commuters wearing face masks on their way to work in Bangkok.

สวนสาธารณะขนาดเล็ก บทเรียนอันยิ่งใหญ่: สิ่งที่นักวางผังเมืองสามารถเรียนรู้จากโครงการ สวน 15 นาที ของกรุงเทพฯ

Feature / บทเรียนจากสวน 15 นาที ของกรุงเทพฯ เผยให้เห็นว่าการออกแบบและทำเลที่ตั้ง ส่งผลต่อสุขภาวะ และวิธีที่ผู้คนใช้พื้นที่สีเขียวในเมืองอย่างไร

30 October 2025 / About Cities, Participation and Wellbeing

Small tree-filled park with a footpath beside a congested flyover packed with cars and motorbikes in Bangkok

สวน 15 นาที: บทบาทของสวนขนาดเล็กในการเพิ่มพื้นที่สีเขียวสาธารณะ และ สุขภาวะที่ดีของคนกรุงเทพฯ

Feature / สวน 15 นาทีในกรุงเทพฯ ปรับเปลี่ยนการเข้าถึงพื้นที่สีเขียวในเมืองและให้แนวคิดใหม่เรื่องความเท่าเทียม สุขภาพ และความยืดหยุ่นของคนในเมือง

15 October 2025 / About Cities, Participation and Wellbeing

Red squares on a dry dirt peninsula with deep blue water all around are chili peppers drying, with green forest on the mainland stretching to the gray blue horizon.

Policy barriers to climate finance flows in Asia: the case of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Thailand

SEI report / This report explores the barriers that hinder finance flows for climate adaptation in four Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Thailand.

24 April 2026 / About Climate policy and Finance

Aerial view of the city of Tupiza, Bolivia, on a sunny day. Buildings line the Tupiza River, cutting through the middle of the foreground, with a bridge that runs across it. Mountains line the background and the sun shines in the blue sky.

Socially responsive water adaptation planning: lessons from community informed water modelling in Bolivia and Cambodia

Journal article / This journal article describes how community-informed water systems modelling has fostered more resilient, equitable water management in Cambodia and Bolivia.

11 February 2026 / About Planning and modelling and Water resources

Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: exploring the dynamic roles of Indigenous intermediaries in cultural preservation and development

Journal article / This article analyses the impact of informal intermediaries on heritage governance within indigenous rice-farming communities in Southeast Asia.

4 February 2026 / About Food and agriculture and Water-energy-food nexus

Advancing interdisciplinary science of gender is key to the success of blue carbon initiatives

Journal article / This paper aims to close the gender gap in the conservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems and enhance their social-environmental impacts.

25 November 2025 / About Adaptation and Participation