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The new Production Gap Report shows that the world is on track to produce 120% more fossil fuels than can be burned under 1.5°C warming.
To mark World Toilet Day 2019, three SEI researchers shared their perspective on global sanitation challenges and what this day means to them.
The SEI Strategy 2020–24 readies us to make a marked contribution to the changes needed in how human society governs and interacts with the environment.
For this year’s Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture, environmental historian Sverker Sörlin examined the evolution of the concept of the environment.
A new SEI Project Report describes a proof-of-concept study applying the SDG Synergies approach at the level of the European Union.
Lauded indigenous leader from West Timur Mama Aleta recently spoke with SEI, urging the use of Indigenous knowledge to meet today's environmental challenges.
A new paper describes a breakthrough in linking final consumption to localized biodiversity impacts in the Brazilian Cerrado.
Investments in fossil fuel-based energy infrastructure confront new risks from climate change. The situation is especially pronounced in Southeast Asia.
A new study in Science lays out three principles for UN climate negotiators, to ensure international carbon markets don’t hinder climate goals.
Resettlement planning after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has led to displacement of farmers that had been living on land for generations.
Non-traditional urban planning tools – think art and poetry – underpin new ways of co-designing city infrastructure to address health and mobility issues.
Getting out of coal to reduce emissions is the order of the day but doing so is complicated. Here are five lessons from our research.
SEI is developing a tool that makes data on development finance easy to visualize. The idea is that transparency will make aid more effective over time.
Countries are working to strengthen their NDCs and boost emission reductions. We take a look at how NDCs are created and the challenges they face.
The impacts of climate change cross borders just as people and goods do. This changes the adaptation challenge.