SEI https://www.sei.org/ Bridging science and policy since 1989 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:15:54 +0000 en hourly 1 https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-favicon-20180207-2-150x150.jpg?modtime= SEI https://www.sei.org/ 32 32 Semana de Financiamiento Climático y Sostenible en LAC, 2020 https://www.sei.org/events/semana-de-financiamiento-climatico-y-sostenible-en-lac-2020/ La pandemia causada por COVID-19 ha complejizado los retos a los que los países se enfrentan en el marco de la lucha contra el cambio climático; sin embargo, también representa una oportunidad única para redefinir los esfuerzos hacia la creación de políticas integrales que atiendan la crisis de salud y al mismo tiempo combatan al cambio climático y avancen hacia el desarrollo sostenible. La región de América Latina y el Caribe puede aprovechar esta oportunidad y transformar sus procesos de pl... La pandemia causada por COVID-19 ha complejizado los retos a los que los países se enfrentan en el marco de la lucha contra el cambio climático; sin embargo, también representa una oportunidad única para redefinir los esfuerzos hacia la creación de políticas integrales que atiendan la crisis de salud y al mismo tiempo combatan al cambio climático y avancen hacia el desarrollo sostenible.

La región de América Latina y el Caribe puede aprovechar esta oportunidad y transformar sus procesos de planeación, presupuestación y de gestión financiera, para avanzar en este sentido.

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 02:01:30 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/semana-de-financiamiento-climatico-y-sostenible-en-lac-2020/ Event Co-designing climate services for water planning: a case study from the Campoalegre River Basin in Colombia https://www.sei.org/publications/co-designing-climate-services-for-water-planning/ This article presents a case study examining the processes used to co-design climate services in the Compoalegre River Basin of Colombia. The brief is one in a series testing SEI’s Tandem framework, which was created to help a wide variety of stakeholders work collaboratively to address climate adaptation issues. This article presents a case study examining the processes used to co-design climate services in the Compoalegre River Basin of Colombia. The brief is one in a series testing SEI’s Tandem framework, which was created to help a wide variety of stakeholders work collaboratively to address climate adaptation issues.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:43:51 +0000 Tania Santos; Åsa Gerger Swartling https://www.sei.org/publications/co-designing-climate-services-for-water-planning/ Publication Climate and Youth: Nordic Voices for a Greener Future https://www.sei.org/events/climate-and-youth-nordic-voices-for-a-greener-future/ SEI Research Associate Zoha Shawoo will participate as one of the Nordic region’s prominent young green voices at this digital Climate and Youth event on 24 September, 10:00-12:00 CEST. Together with the Nordic embassies in Berlin, Zoha will share perspectives on current progress towards meeting the goals in the Paris Agreement. SEI Research Associate Zoha Shawoo will participate as one of the Nordic region’s prominent young green voices at this digital Climate and Youth event on 24 September, 10:00-12:00 CEST. Together with the Nordic embassies in Berlin, Zoha will share perspectives on current progress towards meeting the goals in the Paris Agreement.

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 07:43:54 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/climate-and-youth-nordic-voices-for-a-greener-future/ Event Uus uuring toob välja võimalused tekstiilitoodete ringluse suurendamiseks Baltikumis https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/tekstiiliuuring/ Äsja valminud uuringust selgub, et Balti riikidel on koostöös Põhjamaadega suur potentsiaal ringse tekstiilisüsteemi loomiseks, kuid selle realiseerimiseks on poliitikakujundajatel ja tekstiilitööstusega seotud sidusrühmadel tarvis astuda mitmeid olulisi samme. Uuringu viisid läbi PlanMiljø Taanis, Stockholmi Keskkonnainstituudi Tallinna Keskus Eestis, Green Liberty Lätis ning Textale ja KTU APINI Leedus. Uuringut rahastas Põhjamaade Ministrite Nõukogu. Äsja valminud uuringust selgub, et Balti riikidel on koostöös Põhjamaadega suur potentsiaal ringse tekstiilisüsteemi loomiseks, kuid selle realiseerimiseks on poliitikakujundajatel ja tekstiilitööstusega seotud sidusrühmadel tarvis astuda mitmeid olulisi samme. Uuringu viisid läbi PlanMiljø Taanis, Stockholmi Keskkonnainstituudi Tallinna Keskus Eestis, Green Liberty Lätis ning Textale ja KTU APINI Leedus. Uuringut rahastas Põhjamaade Ministrite Nõukogu.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2020 05:28:59 +0000 Helen Saarniit https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/tekstiiliuuring/ Press New study identifies opportunities for increasing textile circularity in the Baltics https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/new-study-how-to-increase-textile-circularity/ The Baltic states have the potential to create a circular textile system together with Nordic countries, a new study concludes, but significant action is needed by policymakers and industry stakeholders if this potential is to be realized. The study was carried out by PlanMiljø in Denmark, SEI Tallinn in Estonia, Green Liberty in Latvia as well as Textale and KTU APINI in Lithuania, and funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The Baltic states have the potential to create a circular textile system together with Nordic countries, a new study concludes, but significant action is needed by policymakers and industry stakeholders if this potential is to be realized.

The study was carried out by PlanMiljø in Denmark, SEI Tallinn in Estonia, Green Liberty in Latvia as well as Textale and KTU APINI in Lithuania, and funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:30:37 +0000 https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/new-study-how-to-increase-textile-circularity/ Press Transitioning to a climate-neutral electricity generation in Estonia https://www.sei.org/projects/transitioning-to-a-climate-neutral-electricity-generation-in-estonia/ Estonia’s electricity sector is one of the most carbon-intensive in the EU: in 2018, around 80% of the country’s consumed electricity was still produced from oil shale. This study will propose and analyse institutional, administrative and growth-sustaining reforms in Estonia that will enable the country to achieve climate-neutral electricity production by 2050 while addressing any adverse socio-economic impacts of decarbonisation. Estonia’s electricity sector is one of the most carbon-intensive in the EU: in 2018, around 80% of the country’s consumed electricity was still produced from oil shale. This study will propose and analyse institutional, administrative and growth-sustaining reforms in Estonia that will enable the country to achieve climate-neutral electricity production by 2050 while addressing any adverse socio-economic impacts of decarbonisation.

 

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:16:28 +0000 https://www.sei.org/projects/transitioning-to-a-climate-neutral-electricity-generation-in-estonia/ Project Manufacturing pollution in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: implications for the environment, health and future work https://www.sei.org/publications/manufacturing-pollution-in-sub-saharan-africa-and-south-asia-implications-for-the-environment-health-and-future-work/ This study provides an overview of the key manufacturing industries that are causing environmental degradation and subsequent impacts on human health in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This study provides an overview of the key manufacturing industries that are causing environmental degradation and subsequent impacts on human health in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:29:03 +0000 Lisa Emberson; Philip Osano; Andriannah Mbandi; Mbeo Ogeya; George Njoroge; William Apondo; Romanus Opiyo; Jaee Nikam; Diane Archer; Connie O'Neill; Alaoma Alozie; Steve Cinderby; Howard Cambridge https://www.sei.org/publications/manufacturing-pollution-in-sub-saharan-africa-and-south-asia-implications-for-the-environment-health-and-future-work/ Publication Private Sector Adaptation Finance and Nature Based Solutions https://www.sei.org/events/private-sector-adaptation-finance-and-nature-based-solutions/ As part of this year’s Climate Week NYC, SEI welcomes you to an event organized jointly with The Nature Conservancy and UNEP. Experts will share their views on how to increase funding for nature-based solutions to build resilience in coastal areas. The aim is to provide concrete recommendations on a finance roadmap to support nature-based solutions to reduce disaster risks. Image: Marco Bottigelli / Getty As part of this year’s Climate Week NYC, SEI welcomes you to an event organized jointly with The Nature Conservancy and UNEP. Experts will share their views on how to increase funding for nature-based solutions to build resilience in coastal areas. The aim is to provide concrete recommendations on a finance roadmap to support nature-based solutions to reduce disaster risks.

Image: Marco Bottigelli / Getty

]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:32:28 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/private-sector-adaptation-finance-and-nature-based-solutions/ Event Refocusing the climate services lens: introducing a framework for co-designing “transdisciplinary knowledge integration processes” to build climate resilience https://www.sei.org/publications/refocusing-the-climate-services-lens/ This paper seeks to reconceptualize climate services to spur needed policy and action for climate change adaptation. It introduces the Tandem framework, which aims to guide co-exploration and co-production processes. The Tandem framework consists of structured elements, and practical, guiding questions informed by empirical analysis. This paper seeks to reconceptualize climate services to spur needed policy and action for climate change adaptation. It introduces the Tandem framework, which  aims to guide co-exploration and co-production processes. The Tandem framework consists of structured elements, and practical, guiding questions informed by empirical analysis.

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:27:01 +0000 Liz Daniels; Sukaina Bharwani; Åsa Gerger Swartling; Gregor Vulturius; Karen Brandon https://www.sei.org/publications/refocusing-the-climate-services-lens/ Publication Covid-19 recovery could answer urgent need to wind down fossil fuels https://www.sei.org/features/covid-19-recovery-wind-down-fossil-fuels/ Experts from the International Energy Agency, International Institute for Sustainable Development, the United Nations and numerous other institutions and universities discussed Covid-19, fossil fuel production and the next steps for a just transition at the 2020 Virtual Forum on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy. Photo: Suriyapong Thongsawang / Getty Images. Experts from the International Energy Agency, International Institute for Sustainable Development, the United Nations and numerous other institutions and universities discussed Covid-19, fossil fuel production and the next steps for a just transition at the 2020 Virtual Forum on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy.

 

Photo: Suriyapong Thongsawang / Getty Images.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:04:30 +0000 Molly Killeen https://www.sei.org/features/covid-19-recovery-wind-down-fossil-fuels/ Feature Fuego y agua: Integrando la gestión de recursos hídricos en la restauración de la Chiquitanía https://www.sei.org/features/fuego-y-agua-primeros-pasos-para-integrar-recursos-hidricos-en-la-restauracion-de-la-chiquitania/ Este artículo expone momentos y comentarios destacados durante un reciente webinar de SEI, donde expertos presentaron hallazgos iniciales de WATCH Chiquitanía, proyecto que busca evaluar los impactos de los incendios de 2019 en la región y guiar los planes locales de recuperación mediante la integración de los recursos hídricos en las estrategias de adaptación climática. Este artículo expone momentos y comentarios destacados durante un reciente webinar de SEI, donde expertos presentaron hallazgos iniciales de WATCH Chiquitanía, proyecto que busca evaluar los impactos de los incendios de 2019 en la región y guiar los planes locales de recuperación mediante la integración de los recursos hídricos en las estrategias de adaptación climática.

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:05:30 +0000 Natalia Ortiz; Jeanne Fernandez https://www.sei.org/features/fuego-y-agua-primeros-pasos-para-integrar-recursos-hidricos-en-la-restauracion-de-la-chiquitania/ Feature Open synthesis and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 https://www.sei.org/publications/open-synthesis-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-2020/ This article addresses the challenges of mapping and synthesizing the rapidly expanding body of research related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It makes the case for applying the principles of Open Science, or “Open Synthesis”, as a way of ensuring that this work is more collaborative, transparent and rigorous. This article addresses the challenges of mapping and synthesizing the rapidly expanding body of research related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It makes the case for applying the principles of Open Science, or “Open Synthesis”, as a way of ensuring that this work is more collaborative, transparent and rigorous.

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:36:43 +0000 Neal Haddaway https://www.sei.org/publications/open-synthesis-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-2020/ Publication Net zero targets – opportunities and pitfalls https://www.sei.org/features/net-zero-targets-opportunities-and-pitfalls/ Setting net zero targets has become a hot topic for framing climate ambition. SEI’s Derik Broekhoff explains what the concept of net zero is all about. Setting net zero targets has become a hot topic for framing climate ambition. SEI’s Derik Broekhoff explains what the concept of net zero is all about.

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2020 06:26:26 +0000 Derik Broekhoff https://www.sei.org/features/net-zero-targets-opportunities-and-pitfalls/ Feature European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme EMAS – a quality mark for green businesses https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/european-eco-management-and-audit-scheme-emas-a-quality-mark-for-green-businesses/ The European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a framework that the public and private sectors can use to assess, improve and communicate their environmental management performance. Using the EMAS environmental management system and gaining the EMAS certificate is the best quality mark for green businesses. The European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a framework that the public and private sectors can use  to assess, improve and communicate their environmental management performance. Using the EMAS environmental management system and gaining the EMAS certificate is the best quality mark for green businesses.

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:13:39 +0000 https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/european-eco-management-and-audit-scheme-emas-a-quality-mark-for-green-businesses/ Press The Carbon Inequality Era https://www.sei.org/publications/the-carbon-inequality-era/ This paper examines the starkly different contributions of different income groups to carbon emissions from 1990–2015. It draws on new data that provides much-improved insight into global and national income inequality and national consumption emissions to provide an analysis relating emissions to income levels for the populations of 117 countries. Future scenarios of carbon inequality are also presented based on different possible trajectories of economic growth and carbon emissions. This paper examines the starkly different contributions of different income groups to carbon emissions from 1990–2015. It draws on new data that provides much-improved insight into global and national income inequality and national consumption emissions to provide an analysis relating emissions to income levels for the populations of 117 countries. Future scenarios of carbon inequality are also presented based on different possible trajectories of economic growth and carbon emissions.

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:55:19 +0000 Sivan Kartha; Eric Kemp-Benedict; Emily Ghosh; Anisha Nazareth https://www.sei.org/publications/the-carbon-inequality-era/ Publication Carbon emissions of richest one percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-percent-more-than-double-the-emissions-of-the-poorest-half-of-humanity/ The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth. Oxfam’s new report, ‘The Carbon Inequality Era’ is based on research conducted with SEI and is being released as world leaders prepare to meet at the UN General Assembly to discuss global challenges including the climate crisis. The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.

Oxfam’s new report, ‘The Carbon Inequality Era’ is based on research conducted with SEI and is being released as world leaders prepare to meet at the UN General Assembly to discuss global challenges including the climate crisis.

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:00:21 +0000 https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-percent-more-than-double-the-emissions-of-the-poorest-half-of-humanity/ Press Emissions Inequality Dashboard https://www.sei.org/tools/emissions-inequality-dashboard/ This tool allows users to explore the inequalities in carbon dioxide emissions across the world by linking emissions to income levels. This tool allows users to explore the inequalities in carbon dioxide emissions across the world by linking emissions to income levels.

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:55:28 +0000 https://www.sei.org/tools/emissions-inequality-dashboard/ Tool Climate change, crops and commodity traders: subnational trade analysis highlights differentiated risk exposure https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-change-trader-risk-exposure/ This paper describes the first attempt to analyze subnational climate risk to individual trading actors operating across an entire production landscape (Brazilian soy), leading to more precise risk exposure analysis. This paper describes the first attempt to analyze subnational climate risk to individual trading actors operating across an entire production landscape (Brazilian soy), leading to more precise risk exposure analysis.

]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:38:22 +0000 Emilie Stokeld; Simon Croft; Jonathan Green; Chris West https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-change-trader-risk-exposure/ Publication Course set for net zero in Estonia https://www.sei.org/features/course-set-for-net-zero-in-estonia/ For a long time, Estonia has relied on oil shale – which has an even higher carbon intensity than coal – for electricity production. An SEI study commissioned by the Government of Estonia is guiding the country's efforts to reach climate neutrality by 2050. For a long time, Estonia has relied on oil shale – which has an even higher carbon intensity than coal – for electricity production. An SEI study commissioned by the Government of Estonia is guiding the country's efforts to reach climate neutrality by 2050.

]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:49:09 +0000 https://www.sei.org/features/course-set-for-net-zero-in-estonia/ Feature Foro virtual 2020 sobre suministro de combustibles fósiles y política climática https://www.sei.org/events/conferencia-internacional-sobre-suministro-de-combustibles-fosiles-y-politica-climatica/ Únase a nosotros el 15 de septiembre de 2020 para un foro virtual sobre cómo reducir la producción de combustibles fósiles, con especial atención a la recuperación de COVID-19. Únase a nosotros el 15 de septiembre de 2020 para un foro virtual sobre cómo reducir la producción de combustibles fósiles, con especial atención a la recuperación de COVID-19.

]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:56:00 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/conferencia-internacional-sobre-suministro-de-combustibles-fosiles-y-politica-climatica/ Event