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COP26 President Alok Sharma at the Exploring Loss and Damage event at COP26

COP26: what it delivered and what’s next

Feature / The COP26 outcomes have sunk in and it is time to take stock of what happened on fossil fuels, loss and damage and other questions and look ahead.

13 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Finance and Mitigation

Storm clouds over road between cornfields, Sun Prairie, WI, 2020

Climate emotions: it is ok to feel the way you do

Journal article / How does doing climate research affect the emotions of scientists? This article measures their personal responses to the climate crisis.

9 December 2021 / About Climate policy and Wellbeing

Aerial view of sea bay with turquoise water and a small white beach. Beautiful lagoon and volcanic island covered with dense forest

Islands as spaces of innovation for marine biodiversity

Perspective / Read key insights on how innovating in Islands offers an opportunity to think beyond the established ways of organizing society and building cities.

8 December 2021 / About Business, Cities, Innovation and Water resources

Human hands protecting the earth. Elements furnished by NASA

Bridging the knowledge gap between distance health and social care solutions and the environment

SEI brief / SEI applied two different kinds of tools to the question of putting health and social care services online to improve access.

1 October 2021 / About Cities and Sustainable Development Goals

Lightning through clouds under purple-blue sky with orange sky in distance with more lightning over Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa

Combining service design and discrete choice experiments for intervention design: An application to weather index insurance

Journal article / Learn how a new combination of methods can make development action more effective. This article describes the case of weather insurance in Uganda.

8 September 2021 / About Adaptation and Climate services

Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

Journal article / Novel co-created transdisciplinary research uses arts and humanities methods to explore air pollution in an informal settlement (Mukuru) in Nairobi, Kenya.

19 November 2021 / About Cities, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Nyayo Gardens Park, Nakuru, Kenya provides shade and respite to workers and local residents

Assessing inequalities in wellbeing at a neighbourhood scale in low-middle-income-country secondary cities and their implications for long-term livability

Journal article / This article describes a mixed methods approach to understand inequalities in urban wellbeing in two rapidly changing cities in Kenya and Thailand.

10 November 2021 / About Cities, Participation, Pollution, Public policy and Wellbeing

Out of the Shadows

Project / The project's aim is to explore how to ensure inclusion of Sámi reindeer herding communities in the review of environmental licenses for hydropower.

2021 - 2025 / About Land use, Participation and Water resources

Two people at a whiteboard writing in Spanish and English

Governance challenges and opportunities for implementing resource recovery from organic waste streams in urban areas of Latin America: insights from Chía, Colombia

Journal article / A case study shows enabling factors and governance barriers critical to implementing circular economy strategies for organic waste in urban areas.

25 November 2021 / About Public policy and Sanitation