Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
The international climate risk and adaptation team works to understand, manage and support adaptation to climate risk, particularly as it cascades across national borders and threatens to disrupt global systems. We are interested in how the “next generation” of climate risk can be better managed and governed across scales – the new coalitions that will rise to meet the challenge, the innovative solutions that will reduce the risks, the effective diplomacy that will strengthen systemic, equitable and just resilience.
We are a geographically dispersed team and thrive on connection and collaboration. We understand climate risk as interconnected and borderless – a whole-of-society challenge that requires a whole-of-society response. With our expertise in global climate risk and policy, transnational governance and international finance, we advance the dialogues and catalyse the cooperation needed to better manage climate risk in an interconnected world. Our efforts to drive global cooperation on adaptation reflect our own ethos and approach – to work collaboratively with one another and in cooperation with many actors around the world, cutting across silos and sectors.
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Team Leader: International Climate Risk and Adaptation; Senior Research Fellow
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Perspective / From sanitation to food systems, improved Nationally Determined Contributions can unlock untapped climate action, say SEI experts.
Perspective / Katy Harris and Richard J.T. Klein argue that COP29 made modest gains, like the Baku Adaptation Road Map, but lacked the ambition needed for real progress.
Feature / The Global Transboundary Climate Risk Report provides insights on 10 transboundary climate risks that remain overlooked in climate policies.
Feature / KRAFT is launching to enhance Sweden’s capacity to handle security threats and climate-related disruptions.
Feature / Mikaelsson discusses the first-of-its-kind assessment, emphasizing the urgency of adapting policies to mitigate climate risks.
Feature / Understanding global megatrends and utilizing foresight methods are crucial for planning sustainable transitions.
Perspective / Experts examine the flow of public adaptation funds from the governments of developed countries to developing countries since the Paris Agreement.
Feature / Frida Lager discusses the journey towards just resilience in European climate adaptation using the context of urban areas to illustrate some key findings.
SEI podcast / Dive into the consequences of the rapidly changing world order in this "Currents in sustainability" podcast featuring Leo Horn-Phathanothai and SEI experts.
Perspective / Katherine Browne explains the barriers found in Madagascar and Mauritius, and insights on how to improve financing of climate adaptation projects.
Journal article / Lack of reporting and evaluation rigour hinders the assessment of adaptation effectiveness. Four challenges provide stepping stones for solutions.
Other publication / This technical paper contributes to making just resilience operational by stocktaking and structuring the knowledge on just resilience in climate adaptation.
Journal article / This research proposes a framework for facilitating the identification and selection of responses to cross-border climate impacts.
SEI brief / A pilot study explores the promise and limitations of AI tools to deliver accurate, consistent policy analysis at scale, through the SEI AI Reader.
SEI report / The world faces unprecedented natural resource challenges. This paper introduces a new approach to analyzing resource governance in a fast-changing world.
Journal article / Identifying where EU adaptation can reduce systemic climate risks using stakeholder-informed network analysis from the CASCADES project.
Journal article / The study examines how systemic climate risks spread across sectors and generations, using mental health as a lens to reveal overlooked interconnections.
Other publication / This report provides a stocktake of adaptation progress and calls on leaders from both continents to champion adaptation action.
SEI brief / This brief informs adaptation financiers, the broader community of adaptation scholars, and practitioners in their efforts to scale up support for LLA.
Journal article / This study explores how network strategies impact coordination of interdependent policy issues using a typology and simulation models.
Program / A program on aligning climate action, reduced inequalities and sustainable development.
Project / The project investigates procedural and distributive equity in decentralised adaptation finance under the Green Climate Fund’s EDA programme
Initiative / The initiative explores implications of transboundary climate risks and strengthens cooperation to meet the global challenge of adaptation to climate change.
Project / GroundProgress uses AI and evidence synthesis to assess how adaptation projects advance global goals and improve future reporting on climate resilience.
Project / This project aims to build resilience in the global food system by exploring trade and environmental connections between distant global geographies.
Project / Helping policymakers to develop strategies for sustainable governance of natural resources and adaptation to transboundary climate risks.
Project / KRAFT is a research environment aimed at strengthening Sweden's supply preparedness and capacity to address climate-related disruptions.
Tool / The Excel-based tool allows users to explore climate risks to global trade by linking climate change impacts on commodity production and country consumption.
Tool / The NDC Explorer is an interactive visual tool. It provides transparency and comparability data between countries using data from NDCs and INDCS.
Tool / Analyse and compare how climate actions correspond to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
