SEI https://www.sei.org/ Bridging science and policy since 1989 Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:34:25 +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 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 2020 Virtual Forum on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy https://www.sei.org/events/international-conference-on-fossil-fuel-supply-and-climate-policy/ On 15 September 2020, experts from IEA, IISD, UN and numerous other institutions and universities discussed policies to wind down fossil fuel production, with special attention to a COVID-19 recovery. On 15 September 2020, experts from IEA, IISD, UN and numerous other institutions and universities discussed policies to wind down fossil fuel production, with special attention to a COVID-19 recovery.

]]> Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:26:27 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/international-conference-on-fossil-fuel-supply-and-climate-policy/ Event Webinar: Going to work or on vacation: mobility in a post-Covid-19 world https://www.sei.org/events/going-to-work-or-on-vacation-mobility-in-a-post-covid-world/ What lessons post-Covid-19 can we use to design and build cities across the globe with low carbon mobility solutions? Webinar #5 of the Sustainable Lifestyles 1.5 webinar series is on mobility in a post-Covid-19 world. What lessons post-Covid-19 can we use to design and build cities across the globe with low carbon mobility solutions? Webinar #5 of the Sustainable Lifestyles 1.5 webinar series is on mobility in a post-Covid-19 world.

]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:57:41 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/going-to-work-or-on-vacation-mobility-in-a-post-covid-world/ Event Tackling the extinction crisis is everyone’s responsibility — and time is running short https://www.sei.org/perspectives/tackling-the-extinction-crisis-is-everyones-responsibility/ The latest BBC documentary by Sir David Attenborough ‘Extinction: The Facts’ makes the need for action very clear – but change can be made. This op-ed is written by Toby Gardner, Director of Trase, originally published by The Independent. The latest BBC documentary by Sir David Attenborough ‘Extinction: The Facts’ makes the need for action very clear – but change can be made. This op-ed is written by Toby Gardner, Director of Trase, originally published by The Independent.

]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:55:10 +0000 Toby Gardner https://www.sei.org/perspectives/tackling-the-extinction-crisis-is-everyones-responsibility/ Perspective Unravelling decision-making that leads to climate migration https://www.sei.org/projects/unravelling-decision-making-that-leads-to-climate-migrations/ How can the local characterisation of climate migrants inform the development of targeted policies to reduce climate-induced migration? This project will develop a multi-criteria model to assess and analyse the actual and potential vulnerability of climate change-induced migration in Honduras’ Dry Corridor. How can the local characterisation of climate migrants inform the development of targeted policies to reduce climate-induced migration? This project will develop a multi-criteria model to assess and analyse the actual and potential vulnerability of climate change-induced migration in Honduras’ Dry Corridor.

]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:55:45 +0000 https://www.sei.org/projects/unravelling-decision-making-that-leads-to-climate-migrations/ Project Descifrando la toma de decisiones que conducen a la migración climática https://www.sei.org/projects/descifrando-la-toma-de-decisiones-que-conducen-a-la-migracion-climatica/ ¿Cómo puede la caracterización local de los migrantes climáticos informar el desarrollo de políticas específicas para reducir la migración inducida por el clima? Este proyecto desarrollará un modelo multicriterio para evaluar y analizar la vulnerabilidad real y potencial de la migración inducida por el cambio climático en el Corredor Seco de Honduras. ¿Cómo puede la caracterización local de los migrantes climáticos informar el desarrollo de políticas específicas para reducir la migración inducida por el clima?

Este proyecto desarrollará un modelo multicriterio para evaluar y analizar la vulnerabilidad real y potencial de la migración inducida por el cambio climático en el Corredor Seco de Honduras.

]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:19:14 +0000 https://www.sei.org/projects/descifrando-la-toma-de-decisiones-que-conducen-a-la-migracion-climatica/ Project Meet Sukaina Bharwani, Senior Research Fellow https://www.sei.org/people/meet-sei/meet-sukaina-bharwani/ Meet Sukaina, an interdisciplinary senior researcher at SEI Oxford. Sukaina started working at SEI in 2003. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand drivers of behaviour when it comes to climate adaptation. Here she explains more about her work, outlines challenges facing the environmental community, and offers a book recommendation. Meet Sukaina, an interdisciplinary senior researcher at SEI Oxford. Sukaina started working at SEI in 2003. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand drivers of behaviour when it comes to climate adaptation. Here she explains more about her work, outlines challenges facing the environmental community, and offers a book recommendation.

]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:29:49 +0000 https://www.sei.org/people/meet-sei/meet-sukaina-bharwani/ Meet SEI Air Quality Monitoring in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania https://www.sei.org/projects/air-quality-monitoring-in-dar-es-salaam-tanzania/ Over the past 5 years, the City of Dar es Salaam has made substantial progress in improving air quality, but still experiences poor air quality days and faces challenges in describing levels of pollution in the city. Measuring air pollution is an important step in understanding risks and designing effective policies to reduce community exposure to improve public health. Over the past 5 years, the City of Dar es Salaam has made substantial progress in improving air quality, but still experiences poor air quality days and faces challenges in describing levels of pollution in the city. Measuring air pollution is an important step in understanding risks and designing effective policies to reduce community exposure to improve public health.

]]> Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:18:55 +0000 https://www.sei.org/projects/air-quality-monitoring-in-dar-es-salaam-tanzania/ Project Prepare for landing: practical tips on tracking, reporting and reducing business air travel emissions https://www.sei.org/publications/prepare-for-landing/ How can flight-intensive organizations shrink their business travel emissions? How can flight-intensive organizations shrink their business travel emissions?

]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2020 10:48:07 +0000 Georgia Savvidou; Fiona Lambe; Jonathan Green https://www.sei.org/publications/prepare-for-landing/ Publication Climate-resilient trade and production: the transboundary effects of climate change and their implications for EU Member States https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-trade-production-transboundary-eu/ This brief provides an overview of the state of knowledge on transboundary climate risks in Europe, and explores how this knowledge could help Member States, businesses and the EU as a whole to advance climate-resilient trade and production. This brief provides an overview of the state of knowledge on transboundary climate risks in Europe, and explores how this knowledge could help Member States, businesses and the EU as a whole to advance climate-resilient trade and production.

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:44:34 +0000 Kevin M. Adams; Katy Harris; Richard J.T. Klein; Frida Lager; Magnus Benzie https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-trade-production-transboundary-eu/ Publication Euroopa Liidu keskkonnajuhtimissüsteem EMAS – roheettevõtte kvaliteedimärk https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/euroopa-liidu-keskkonnajuhtimissusteem-emas-roheettevotte-kvaliteedimark/ Euroopa Liidu keskkonnajuhtimis- ja auditeerimissüsteem EMAS rakendamine pakub nii era- kui ka avaliku sektori organisatsioonidele hea raamistiku oma keskkonnategevuse tulemuslikkuse hindamiseks, täiustamiseks ning avalikkusele kommunikeerimiseks. Seega on EMAS keskkonnajuhtimissüsteemi rakendamine ja vastava tunnistuse saamine roheettevõttele parimaks kvaliteedimärgiks. Euroopa Liidu keskkonnajuhtimis- ja auditeerimissüsteem EMAS rakendamine pakub nii era- kui ka avaliku sektori organisatsioonidele hea raamistiku oma keskkonnategevuse tulemuslikkuse hindamiseks, täiustamiseks ning avalikkusele kommunikeerimiseks. Seega on EMAS keskkonnajuhtimissüsteemi rakendamine ja vastava tunnistuse saamine roheettevõttele parimaks kvaliteedimärgiks.

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:58:06 +0000 https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/euroopa-liidu-keskkonnajuhtimissusteem-emas-roheettevotte-kvaliteedimark/ Press No green recovery for poor countries without loss and damage finance https://www.sei.org/perspectives/no-green-recovery-for-poor-countries-without-loss-and-damage-finance/ A loss and damage fund linked to rich countries’ mitigation efforts could levy new funds to address the ‘perfect storm’ of flooding, COVID-19 and economic hardship, argues Zoha Shawoo. This perspective was originally published on Climate Home. A loss and damage fund linked to rich countries’ mitigation efforts could levy new funds to address the ‘perfect storm’ of flooding, COVID-19 and economic hardship, argues Zoha Shawoo.

This perspective was originally published on Climate Home. 

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:47:26 +0000 Zoha Shawoo https://www.sei.org/perspectives/no-green-recovery-for-poor-countries-without-loss-and-damage-finance/ Perspective Small is critical – Q&A on insect life and a living planet https://www.sei.org/features/small-is-critical-qa-on-insect-life-and-a-living-planet/ Photo Credit: Inesa Cebanu / Unsplash SEI’s Neal Haddaway is co-author of a section on insect life in WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020, which assesses trends in biodiversity. Here, he discusses the report and the importance of insects to ecosystems and to human survival, and why better evidence is needed for reversing negative trends.

Photo Credit: Inesa Cebanu / Unsplash

SEI’s Neal Haddaway is co-author of a section on insect life in WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020, which assesses trends in biodiversity. Here, he discusses the report and the importance of insects to ecosystems and to human survival, and why better evidence is needed for reversing negative trends.

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:12:37 +0000 https://www.sei.org/features/small-is-critical-qa-on-insect-life-and-a-living-planet/ Feature Governing the circular economy: Assessing the capacity to implement resource-oriented sanitation and waste management systems in low- and middle-income countries https://www.sei.org/publications/governing-circular-economy/ This paper identifies factors that facilitate or limit governance capacity to adopt circularity in the form of resource recovery from urban organic waste streams. This paper identifies factors that facilitate or limit governance capacity to adopt circularity in the form of resource recovery from urban organic waste streams.

]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:22:38 +0000 Daniel Ddiba; Kim Andersson; Sarah Dickin https://www.sei.org/publications/governing-circular-economy/ Publication Setting the stage for the circular economy: Waste resource recovery opportunities in Naivasha, Kenya https://www.sei.org/publications/setting-stage-circular-naivasha/ This inventory report is a first step towards creating scenarios and roadmaps for a circular economy based on organic waste resources. This inventory report is a first step towards creating scenarios and roadmaps for a circular economy based on organic waste resources.

]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:22:33 +0000 Judith Mugambi; Constanze Windberg; Daniel Ddiba; Tom Ogol; Kim Andersson https://www.sei.org/publications/setting-stage-circular-naivasha/ Publication Insights from historical cases of transition: background paper for the EBRD just transition initiative https://www.sei.org/publications/insights-historical-transition-ebrd-just-transition-initiative/ The objective of this paper is to distill some insights into how industrial transitions impact people, economies and the environment, and how these impacts might best be managed going forward. The objective of this paper is to distill some insights into how industrial transitions impact people, economies and the environment, and how these impacts might best be managed going forward.

]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:26:29 +0000 Aaron Atteridge; Claudia Strambo https://www.sei.org/publications/insights-historical-transition-ebrd-just-transition-initiative/ Publication The CEEDER database of evidence reviews: an open-access evidence service for researchers and decision-makers https://www.sei.org/publications/ceeder-database-evidence-reviews-open-access-service/ This article introduces a new online, freely available and first-of-its-kind evidence service: the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Database of Evidence Reviews (CEEDER). This article introduces a new online, freely available and first-of-its-kind evidence service: the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Database of Evidence Reviews (CEEDER).

]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:52:15 +0000 Biljana Macura https://www.sei.org/publications/ceeder-database-evidence-reviews-open-access-service/ Publication Creando una visión de recursos hídricos en Bolivia a través de WEAP: de lo nacional a lo local. https://www.sei.org/features/creando-una-vision-de-recursos-hidricos-en-bolivia-a-traves-de-weap-de-lo-nacional-a-lo-local/ El uso de WEAP y el trabajo coordinado entre el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua de Bolivia (MMAyA) e investigadores de SEI ha logrado un impacto positivo en la planeación y gestión hídrica del país. En entrevista con SEI, Gustavo Ayala, Responsable de Sistemas de Información Geográfica del MMAyA, explica la importancia de WEAP en la formulación de los Planes de Aprovechamiento Hídrico en Bolivia. El uso de WEAP y el trabajo coordinado entre el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua de Bolivia (MMAyA) e investigadores de SEI ha logrado un impacto positivo en la planeación y gestión hídrica del país.

En entrevista con SEI, Gustavo Ayala, Responsable de Sistemas de Información Geográfica del MMAyA, explica la importancia de WEAP en la formulación de los Planes de Aprovechamiento Hídrico en Bolivia.

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:42:28 +0000 Natalia Ortiz; Marisa Escobar https://www.sei.org/features/creando-una-vision-de-recursos-hidricos-en-bolivia-a-traves-de-weap-de-lo-nacional-a-lo-local/ Feature BONUS RETURN Final Conference https://www.sei.org/events/bonus-return-final-conference/ The BONUS RETURN project has been exploring how ecotechnologies can turn nutrients and carbon from being environmental problems, into benefits – by closing nutrient loops and promoting circularity. Results, conclusions and recommendations were presented at the final conference. Öja, Nynäshamn, an island in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. Photo: Maria Swärd / Getty The BONUS RETURN project has been exploring how ecotechnologies can turn nutrients and carbon from being environmental problems, into benefits – by closing nutrient loops and promoting circularity. Results, conclusions and recommendations were presented at the final conference.

Öja, Nynäshamn, an island in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. Photo: Maria Swärd / Getty 

]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:06:45 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/bonus-return-final-conference/ Event Cooking oil factory that won’t allow locals to catch a breath https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/cooking-oil-factory-that-wont-allow-locals-to-breathe/ As the world marked the International Day of Air Quality on Monday, Ms. Eileen Sidi and her two children aged four months and four years had nothing to celebrate. Ms Sidi and other residents off Mombasa Road in Nairobi, are experiencing severe health problems because of pollution from a nearby cooking oil factory. Comment by Philip Osano, SEI Africa Director, in the Nation. As the world marked the International Day of Air Quality on Monday, Ms. Eileen Sidi and her two children aged four months and four years had nothing to celebrate.

Ms Sidi and other residents off Mombasa Road in Nairobi, are experiencing severe health problems because of pollution from a nearby cooking oil factory.

Comment by Philip Osano, SEI Africa Director, in the Nation.

 

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:25:23 +0000 https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/cooking-oil-factory-that-wont-allow-locals-to-breathe/ Press