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The climate and equity program focuses on climate change mitigation policy and explores how to achieve socially and economically just transitions from emissions-intensive energy, food, and land use systems. Our research is used by communities, governments, civil society groups, and private companies to drive more equitable and ambitious climate action at local, national, and global levels.
Feature / SEI US has combined three strong programs into one, joining the efforts of accomplished experts at the vanguard of their fields.
One-SEI program / This program explores science-based, participatory and equitable pathways that can create a more sustainable, healthier and equitable global food system.
One-SEI program / Our mission is to help accelerate the allocation of capital to sustainable economic activities.
Project / This project explores the link between social and economic inequality and the unsustainable carbon dioxide emissions that fuel human-caused climate change.
Project / This project aims to steer renewable energy development in La Guajira towards more equitable and socially beneficial paths.
Program / This programme aims to build a collaborative platform to accelerate renewable energy deployment in La Guajira.
Project / This project provided Norad with a synthesis of existing evidence on the effectiveness of development cooperation in the energy sector.
Project / This project will inform targeted policy actions to reduce unsustainable investments and consumption-driven emissions, using the transport sector as case study.
Project / Helping policymakers to develop strategies for sustainable governance of natural resources and adaptation to transboundary climate risks.
Project / This research project explores the effectiveness of financial risk mitigation in attracting private investment in renewable energy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Project / The world’s appetite for animal products continues to grow, with profound implications for the environment, human health and animal welfare.
Project / Animal welfare matters for sustainable development; and sustainable development matters for animals.
SEI report / This SEI report outlines environmental concerns that challenge portrayals of the farmed insect industry as providing a sustainable dietary protein source.
Other publication / This publication discusses why US policymakers should support the development and integration of compliance and voluntary carbon credit markets.
Other publication / This report by SEI and The Brookings Institution explains and evaluates project-based carbon credit markets, delving into their challenges and potential.
Other publication / This handbook examines the complex and evolving intersection between geopolitics and sustainability.
Journal article / Access to clean, reliable energy is a cornerstone of public health, yet energy poverty continues to undermine health and equity in many lower income countries.
Other publication / This paper introduces a Mitigation Intervention statement to better quantify the real impacts of corporate climate actions beyond traditional GHG inventories.
Other publication / Insights and reflections from the exchange between Indigenous communities in Colombia and Brazil regarding wind energy and their involvement.
Journal article / This journal article explores the question: What exactly is a greenhouse gas "removal"?
SEI report / This report examines how risk mitigation and transfer instruments support utility-scale renewable energy investment in East Africa, drawing on six case studies.
Other publication / This report argues that animal welfare should be embedded in the 2030 Agenda and other sustainability goals to benefit environment, humans and animals alike.
Other publication / Each year, Future Earth, the Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme gather leading scholars to review the climate research findings.
Other publication / A new Oxfam report draws on SEI research highlighting the disproportionate greenhouse gas emissions generated by upper-income populations.
SEI report / This document provides an overview of wind and solar energy in Colombia at the beginning of 2025, with commentary on outlooks.
Other publication / Governments, in aggregate, still plan to produce far more fossil fuels than would be consistent with limiting global warming to between 1.5ºC and 2ºC.
Journal article / This journal article explores the effects of different cooking fuels, stoves and greater environment on users' air pollution exposure.
Journal article / This article reveals the health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States.
Journal article / This journal article applies the Welfare Footprint Framework to chicken farming, showing the investment and benefits of raising slower-growing chicken breeds.
Journal article / This article reports estimates of wood fuel removal and charcoal production for improving forecasting models and understanding the forest sector.
SEI report / This report analyses how just energy transitions figure into the policies of southeast Asian countries and China.
Other publication / This report explores business models and finance options that can help accelerate the use of clean-cooking technologies in last mile communities.
SEI working paper / Colombia’s renewable energy auctions can foster a just and inclusive energy transition by integrating socio‑economic and community interactions.
SEI working paper / Learn about the methods and data behind the second version of Consumption Compass, a tool developed by SEI to promote sustainable consumption at the local level
Journal article / This article by SEI researchers evaluates different economic principles and their implications in progressing towards UN's 17 sustainable development goals.
Journal article / Biomass cookstoves remain a major source of harmful air pollution. This article analyses the research and policy landscape on these cookstoves' emissions.
SEI brief / This brief analyses policy options for generating enough loss and damage revenue to meet the global need.
Other publication / SEI experts informed the 2025 version of the Carbon Offset Guide, a resource to learn about carbon credits and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
Journal article / This journal article calls for more national and sub-national evaluations of adaptation finance to determine whether money reaches the most vulnerable groups.
SEI report / This report explores the financial landscape of renewable energy projects in West and Central Africa, with recommendations on how to maximize success.
SEI report / The authors propose ways to transform voluntary net zero commitments into ground rules for the economy overall.
Journal article / This article from the journal Global Policy details how to incorporate the needs of marginalized communities in the global transition away from fossil fuels.
Journal article / The authors examine seven common strategies for feeding everyone with a smaller carbon footprint and analyse each for their consequences and benefits.
Journal article / A Comment in Nature Food details the shortfalls in the FAO's food systems roadmap to eliminate hunger without breaching the 1.5°C climate change threshold.
SEI report / The authors identify enabling factors of social acceptance for wind energy projects and, more broadly, of a just energy transition in La Guajira.
Other publication / SEI experts contributed to this publication from the UN discussing options to manage reversal risks of carbon crediting programmes.
Perspective / SEI fossil fuel experts weigh in on the successes and challenges of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia.
Perspective / Ahead of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Colombia, SEI experts name their priorities for advancing a fossil-free future.
Feature / After years of compiling data, a critical update arrived in December: a map of the Amazon that lays bare the real-time footprint of oil and gas expansion.
Media coverage / Emily Ghosh and Derik Broekhoff spotlight Nigeria and South Africa's fossil fuel production plans in The Conversation, based on the 2025 Production Gap Report.
Feature / Over 93% of Ugandan households rely on wood and charcoal for fuel. A new strategy sets a timeline through 2040 to support a clean energy transition.
Perspective / Anajia Guajira allows community members of La Guajira, Colombia, to give direct feedback on planned wind energy projects in their neighborhoods.
Feature / SEI researcher Emily Ghosh explains how SEI experts calculated the "emissions inequality" that informs a new Oxfam report.
Perspective / Science, policy and collaboration can transform food systems and improve production, nutrition, environment and lives.
Perspective / In this perspective, SEI Senior Scientist Cleo Verkuijl outlines lessons from fossil fuel governance that can guide transformation of the global food system.
Perspective / Four SEI researchers reflect on the recent ICJ ruling, which states that countries are obligated under international law to protect the environment.
Feature / SEI Scientist William Babis discusses how AI can support sustainable supply chains and its risks and opportunities for decarbonization efforts.
Media coverage / SEI experts illuminate the successes of renewable energy development in sub-Saharan Africa with a message: keep going.
Perspective / SEI delegates share their key COP29 takeaways and next-stage expectations.
Press release / The Fossil Fuel Atlas is a new tool that allows the public to see where existing and emerging fossil fuel extraction projects encroach on protected ecosystems.
Perspective / SEI's Cleo Verkuijl calls for a comprehensive approach to food system reform that supports climate, public health, animal welfare and ecosystems all at once.
Perspective / From sanitation to food systems, improved Nationally Determined Contributions can unlock untapped climate action, say SEI experts.
Feature / Renewable energy finance in Africa faces an uphill battle. With patience and more knowledge sharing, recent encouraging results can continue.
Feature / We speak with SEI US clean cooking expert Rob Bailis on how COP28 delivered for an issue that affects climate and development alike.
Tool / This web-based platform tracks fossil fuel infrastructure development and enables users to evaluate potential threats to ecosystems and communities.
Tool / This tool allows you to explore the inequalities in carbon dioxide emissions across the world, by linking emissions to income levels.
Tool / Anajia Guajira is a mapping and communication platform to foster a just transition to renewable energy in La Guajira, Colombia.
Tool / SEI's Consumption Compass is a unique tool, tracking greenhouse gas emissions from households in Sweden for over 100 consumption categories.
Tool / AMES is a macroeconomic simulation model designed to extend resource planning models. It is closely integrated to SEI’s Low Emissions Analysis Platform.
Tool / The Climate Equity Reference Calculator is an equity reference tool designed to allow users to analyse the implications of a country’s fair share.
