Work

Feature / Nature-based solutions are physical measures to protect, manage and restore our ecosystems. Explore their promises and pitfalls in this brief series.

Feature / SEI partnered with an off-grid community in Kenya to co-design a 10-year roadmap towards electricity-powered cooking. Local people set out their vision.

Project / SEI is working with UC Davis and the California State Water Resources Control Board to implement the Drought Emergency Regulation in the Scott River watershed.

Journal article / This paper introduces an analytical framework hypothesizing how ideas, institutions, and interests may influence policy coherence at different policy stages.

Other publication / This report by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations analyses four different scenarios up to 2050 to achieve the region's energy targets.

Media coverage / SEI's Derik Broekhoff features in a news segment by DW Planet A on FIFA's spurious claim that the 2022 World Cup will be carbon neutral.

Feature / SEI's work has been cited in consequential domestic and international decisions against major global polluters for their contributions to the climate crisis.

Media advisory / COP27 failed to advance climate action. Ended with only one achievement: the decision to establish a fund for financial support to victims of climate impacts.

Other publication / African leaders can act quickly across five key areas to fight climate change, prevent air pollution, and protect human health. 

Press release / An Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution and Climate Change for Sustainable Development in Africa released today at COP27.

Past event / SEI Senior Scientist Rob Bailis discusses the benefits of clean cooking on the climate, gender equality and economic empowerment at a COP27 side event on SDG 7.

Perspective / To ensure a just transition, ethnic minority groups and Indigenous Peoples need to be involved in decision-making and benefit sharing.