Features

Can resource efficiency give an edge to Estonian businesses?

Feature / SEI Tallinn and the Estonian Ministry of the Environment are part of a new project aimed at engaging businesses in the circular economy.

9 March 2017 / About Business and Innovation

SEI at the 5th International Conference on Climate Services

Feature / More than 250 people will meet in Cape Town to explore how capacity-building and education can improve the use of climate information in decision-making.

24 February 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Mitigation and Public policy

How can Estonia’s transport and housing sectors contribute to cleaner air and a safer climate?

Feature / SEI researchers in Tallinn, York and the U.S. are exploring measures to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) in Estonia using a new calculator.

22 February 2017 / About Cities, Mitigation, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

In the search for food security, how can African scientists make themselves heard?

Feature / Large parts of the Horn of Africa are in the midst of a drought and 15 million people are facing food and water shortages. In Kenya 1,3 million need food relief

16 February 2017 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture and Public policy

Study links outdoor air pollution with 2.7 million preterm births per year

Feature / Results suggest that addressing major sources of fine particulate matter from diesel vehicles, to agricultural waste-burning, could save babies’ lives.

15 February 2017 / About Cities, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Q&A: Åsa Gerger Swartling on leading capacity-building at SEI

Feature / Capacity development is crucial to enable stakeholders to fully engage in our research and analysis, benefit and learn from it, and take ownership of results.

2 February 2017 / About Participation and Public policy

SEI Executive Director Johan Kuylenstierna inks the MoU with Instituto Humboldt.

SEI strengthens ties with partner institutes in Sweden and Colombia

Feature / SEI signed memorandums of understanding with Lund University in Sweden and the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Institute in Bogotá, Colombia.

31 January 2017

Two fishermen put out a net to catch reef fish in Fumato’o, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands.

Analysis shows how climate finance to Pacific Islands varies across countries

Feature / In 2010–2014, a total of US$748 million in official development assistance focused on responding to climate change flowed to the 15 nations, mainly bilaterally.

30 January 2017 / About Adaptation, Finance and Mitigation

SEI ranked as world’s most influential environment policy think tank

Feature / SEI is rated as the world’s most influential think tank on environmental policy issues in the University of Pennsylvania’s 2016 Global Go To Think Tanks Index.

26 January 2017