SEI Oxford

SEI Oxford conducts frontier research to bridge science and policy on climate-related issues and sustainable development. Our work informs effective adaptation to climate change, and climate-related governance and policy-making.

Two smokestacks on factory roof with billowing smoke on winter day in overcast sunlight

World governments must take immediate steps to close the fossil fuel production gap

The 2021 Production Gap Report shows governments' fossil fuel production plans remain dangerously out of sync with the Paris Agreement’s temperature limits.

Leafy greens, squashes, root vegetables, tomatoes and flowers, Leichlingen, Rheinland, Germany, 2019

COP26’s “plant-forward” menu should be the starting shot for a protein transformation

Earthquake and tsunami leave shattered buildings in Palu, Indonesia after Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami

SEI analysis shows how COP26 can mobilize loss and damage finance right away

Press release
Climate
Governance
27 October 2021

Young people on global strike for climate change

Our guide to COP26

Building climate diplomacy back better: imagining the UNFCCC meetings of tomorrow

Designing a fair and feasible loss and damage finance mechanism

Making adaptation a global ambition

All hands on deck! Now is the time to empower civil society in international climate diplomacy

Perspective
Climate
8 June 2021

Earth Day in the pandemic: rethinking our relationship with nature

Perspective
Climate
21 April 2021

Using artificial intelligence to detect permafrost thawing

Feature
Climate
Governance
8 April 2021

Bringing a runner’s mindset to the global “Race to Resilience”

Perspective
Climate
25 January 2021

The Paris Agreement Five Years On: Adaptation to dangerous climate change is not conceding defeat on mitigation

Perspective
Climate
15 December 2020

The Paris Agreement Five Years On: It’s time to realize a just transition away from fossil fuels

Production Gap Report Special Issue sees Covid-19 recovery as a potential turning point

Refocusing the climate services lens: introducing a framework for co-designing “transdisciplinary knowledge integration processes” to build climate resilience

Journal articles
Climate
23 September 2020

Curbing fossil fuel supply to achieve climate goals

Journal articles
Climate
Energy
2 September 2020

Governing the climate-energy nexus: Institutional complexity and its challenges to effectiveness and legitimacy

Other publications
Climate
18 August 2020

G20 governments have committed $151 billion to fossil fuels in Covid-19 recovery packages

How effective is climate finance in assisting farmers in low- and middle-income countries adapt to climate change?

Bouncing back or bouncing forward? The overlooked role of taxonomies for climate action and pandemic recovery

Perspective
Climate
16 July 2020

Covid-19 offers chance to go green for good, environmental researchers say

After the oil crash, we need a managed wind-down of fossil fuel production

Perspective
Climate
Energy
7 May 2020

A road map to accelerate information exchange for climate action

Perspective
Climate
13 May 2020

How the fossil fuel “production gap” hinders climate goals

Feature
Climate
Energy
20 November 2019

Online guidance to collaboratively address climate change adaptation

Tool
Climate
11 March 2020

Research areas

Our work examines effective climate change adaptation, and analyses policy-making and governance issues raised by the planet’s changing climate.

World governments must take immediate steps to close the fossil fuel production gap

The 2021 Production Gap Report shows governments' fossil fuel production plans remain dangerously out of sync with the Paris Agreement’s temperature limits.

Man participating in video call from home during lockdown

Building climate diplomacy back better: imagining the UNFCCC meetings of tomorrow

The Production Gap Report 2020

Understanding and supporting climate-sensitive decision processes in southern African cities

Refocusing the climate services lens: introducing a framework for co-designing “transdisciplinary knowledge integration processes” to build climate resilience

Journal articles
Climate
23 September 2020

Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as instruments for promoting national development agendas? An analysis of small island developing states (SIDS)

Barriers and opportunities to bioenergy transitions: an integrated, multi-level perspective analysis of biogas uptake in Bali

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