SEI https://www.sei.org/ Bridging science and policy since 1989 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:51:20 +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 How to make financial analysis more long-term – new study https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/how-to-make-financial-analysis-more-long-term/ A study from Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre (SSFC) and Swesif shows that half of buy-side analysts as well as corporate investor relations officers think that sell-side financial research has a detrimental short-term focus. More than a third of sell-side financial analysts agree with this. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development constitutes a roadmap for where we, as a society that includes the private sector, need to go in just over ten years until 2030. A study from Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre (SSFC) and Swesif shows that half of buy-side analysts as well as corporate investor relations officers think that sell-side financial research has a detrimental short-term focus. More than a third of sell-side financial analysts agree with this.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development constitutes a roadmap for where we, as a society that includes the private sector, need to go in just over ten years until 2030.

]]> Tue, 28 May 2019 14:48:42 +0000 Andrea Lindblom https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/how-to-make-financial-analysis-more-long-term/ Press PRINCE: revealing the global impacts of Sweden’s consumption https://www.sei.org/features/prince-global-impacts-sweden-consumption/ SEI was a driving force in PRINCE – a project to help Swedish policy-makers understand, and address, the environmental and social impacts of Swedish consumption. SEI was a driving force in PRINCE – a project to help Swedish policy-makers understand, and address, the environmental and social impacts of Swedish consumption.

]]> Mon, 27 May 2019 04:00:47 +0000 https://www.sei.org/features/prince-global-impacts-sweden-consumption/ Feature Del mundo para Colombia: Entrevista a Fiona Lambe durante su visita a Bogotá https://www.sei.org/features/del-mundo-para-colombia-entrevista-a-fiona-lambe-durante-su-visita-a-bogota/ La iniciativa de Comportamiento y Elección – Behaviour and Choice – del Instituto de Ambiente de Estocolmo (SEI) busca comprender los factores que influencian el comportamiento individual y grupal y cómo esto afectan la adopción de tecnologías, normas y procesos innovadores relacionados con sostenibilidad y medio ambiente en los países en desarrollo. Durante su visita a Bogotá y Manizales, Fiona Lambe, líder de la iniciativa, compartió con el equipo del Centro SEI de Latinoamérica percepcione... La iniciativa de Comportamiento y Elección – Behaviour and Choice – del Instituto de Ambiente de Estocolmo (SEI) busca comprender los factores que influencian el comportamiento individual y grupal y cómo esto afectan la adopción de tecnologías, normas y procesos innovadores relacionados con sostenibilidad y medio ambiente en los países en desarrollo.

Durante su visita a Bogotá y Manizales, Fiona Lambe, líder de la iniciativa, compartió con el equipo del Centro SEI de Latinoamérica percepciones y resultados de su investigación y expectativas para aplicar los hallazgos en un caso de estudio en Colombia.

]]> Mon, 27 May 2019 02:47:28 +0000 Fiona Lambe; Natalia Ortiz https://www.sei.org/features/del-mundo-para-colombia-entrevista-a-fiona-lambe-durante-su-visita-a-bogota/ Feature Nueva herramienta ayuda a visualizar interacciones entre los ODS en Colombia https://www.sei.org/features/nueva-herramienta-ayuda-a-visualizar-interacciones-entre-los-ods-en-colombia/ ¿El progreso en un Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) resulta en progreso en otro? Investigadores prueban una versión interactiva de la herramienta de interacciones entre ODS del Instituto de Ambiente de Estocolmo (SEI). ¿El progreso en un Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) resulta en progreso en otro? Investigadores prueban una versión interactiva de la herramienta de interacciones entre ODS del Instituto de Ambiente de Estocolmo (SEI).

]]> Fri, 24 May 2019 17:06:57 +0000 Ivonne Lobos Alva; Natalia Ortiz https://www.sei.org/features/nueva-herramienta-ayuda-a-visualizar-interacciones-entre-los-ods-en-colombia/ Feature Governing sustainability in biomass supply chains for the bioeconomy https://www.sei.org/events/governing-sustainability-in-biomass-supply-chains-for-the-bioeconomy/ To explore ways to establish sustainable supply chains for bioeconomic goods, this workshop will present an overview of relevant existing sustainability governance; what may be needed; and how can policy, market and civil society actors across sectors support a sustainable bioeconomy. The workshop is organized by IEA Bioenergy in collaboration with GBEP, FAO, IEA, Biofuture Platform, IRENA, Below50 and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO) as local host. Experts from the SEI Initiative on G... To explore ways to establish sustainable supply chains for bioeconomic goods, this workshop will present an overview of relevant existing sustainability governance; what may be needed; and how can policy, market and civil society actors across sectors support a sustainable bioeconomy.

The workshop is organized by IEA Bioenergy in collaboration with GBEP, FAO, IEA, Biofuture Platform, IRENA, Below50 and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO) as local host. Experts from the SEI Initiative on Governing Bioeconomy Pathways will take part in the consultation.

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]]> Tue, 07 May 2019 12:08:09 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/governing-sustainability-in-biomass-supply-chains-for-the-bioeconomy/ Event The Tandem framework: a holistic approach to co-designing climate services https://www.sei.org/publications/the-tandem-framework-a-holistic-approach-to-co-designing-climate-services/ This SEI discussion brief introduces the Tandem framework, a seven-step approach to help scientists, intermediaries and decision-makers work together to tailor climate services to specific situations. The framework’s collaborative approach aims to increase the likelihood that scientific information will be used to inform climate change adaptation decisions and policies. This SEI discussion brief introduces the Tandem framework, a seven-step approach to help scientists, intermediaries and decision-makers work together to tailor climate services to specific situations. The framework’s collaborative approach aims to increase the likelihood that scientific information will be used to inform climate change adaptation decisions and policies.

]]> Thu, 23 May 2019 07:00:22 +0000 Liz Daniels; Sukaina Bharwani; Ruth Butterfield https://www.sei.org/publications/the-tandem-framework-a-holistic-approach-to-co-designing-climate-services/ Publication Working in Tandem: focusing on collaboration to link climate science and climate policy https://www.sei.org/features/working-in-tandem-focusing-on-collaboration/ Policy-makers and planners who are trying to make decisions about how to adapt to climate change often do not use relevant scientific information, even when it is available. As a result, research on climate change adaptation has been slow to impact policy and practice. SEI’s new Tandem framework aims to address this gap between good science and good decision-making. It outlines a process for engaging policy-makers and planners dealing with adaptation-related decisions as full design partners ... Policy-makers and planners who are trying to make decisions about how to adapt to climate change often do not use relevant scientific information, even when it is available. As a result, research on climate change adaptation has been slow to impact policy and practice.

SEI’s new Tandem framework aims to address this gap between good science and good decision-making. It outlines a process for engaging policy-makers and planners dealing with adaptation-related decisions  as full design partners of climate services. The framework is currently being tested through case studies on four continents.

]]> Thu, 23 May 2019 07:00:09 +0000 Liz Daniels; Sukaina Bharwani; Ruth Butterfield; Karen Brandon https://www.sei.org/features/working-in-tandem-focusing-on-collaboration/ Feature How California and China can adapt to an uncertain climate future https://www.sei.org/features/california-and-china-adapt-to-uncertain-climate-future/ By working with the U.S. Department of Energy and the California and Chinese governments, SEI is helping policy-makers glimpse into the future so they can plan for resilient water and energy systems. By working with the U.S. Department of Energy and the California and Chinese governments, SEI is helping policy-makers glimpse into the future so they can plan for resilient water and energy systems.

]]> Thu, 23 May 2019 17:29:12 +0000 Emily Yehle https://www.sei.org/features/california-and-china-adapt-to-uncertain-climate-future/ Feature Learning-based intervention for river restoration: analyzing the lack of outcomes in the Ljusnan River basin, Sweden https://www.sei.org/publications/learning-intervention-river-restoration-lack-outcomes-ljusnan-river-basin-sweden/ The authors analysed a large and sustained stakeholder process for river restoration related to hydropower production that failed to reach any significant natural resource management outcomes. The analyisis asks, to what extent the stakeholder process can be characterized as a learning-based intervention, and what were the reasons for the lack of outcomes? The analysis finds that the stakeholder process featured virtually all fostering procedural factors as well as various fostering instituti... The authors analysed a large and sustained stakeholder process for river restoration related to hydropower production that failed to reach any significant natural resource management outcomes.

The analyisis asks, to what extent the stakeholder process can be characterized as a learning-based intervention, and what were the reasons for the lack of outcomes?

The analysis finds that the stakeholder process featured virtually all fostering procedural factors as well as various fostering institutional factors identified from a literature review. The main hindering institutional element consisted of strong pre-existing water rights, granted by the legislation governing hydropower production and river restoration in Sweden. Existing legislation provided a key stakeholder with the power to successfully reach its objective through the unilateral action of exiting the stakeholder process.

The results demonstrate that various learning outcomes, including knowledge acquisition, trust building, and the creation of networks, are possible in stakeholder processes that feature power imbalances. The results also suggest that, ultimately, the power imbalance limited the process from reaching significant natural resource management outcomes, both in the short and longer terms.

Based on comparison with international cases, the results reveal the need to focus attention on the national scale to remediate power imbalances in stakeholder processes that arise from a share of stakeholders possessing strong prior rights to the use of natural resources. In such cases, sustainable management of natural resources could be better served by efforts to modify existing legislation, rather than investments in resource-intensive learning-based interventions.

]]> Wed, 22 May 2019 08:28:01 +0000 Peter M. Rudberg https://www.sei.org/publications/learning-intervention-river-restoration-lack-outcomes-ljusnan-river-basin-sweden/ Publication Environmental pressures from Swedish consumption: A hybrid multi-regional input-output approach https://www.sei.org/publications/environmental-pressures-swedish-consumption-prince/ Smoke from a factory in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China. Sulphur dioxide emissions linked to Swedish consumption are far bigger in China than in any other country, including Sweden. Photo: Xuanyu Han / Getty Images. This article presents headline results from the PRINCE project, which developed macroindicators for domestic and external footprints of Swedish consumption using a novel modelling approach.

Smoke from a factory in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China. Sulphur dioxide emissions linked to Swedish consumption are far bigger in China than in any other country, including Sweden. Photo: Xuanyu Han / Getty Images.

This article presents headline results from the PRINCE project, which developed macroindicators for domestic and external footprints of Swedish consumption using a novel modelling approach.

]]> Tue, 21 May 2019 14:15:53 +0000 Elena Dawkins https://www.sei.org/publications/environmental-pressures-swedish-consumption-prince/ Publication Value farmers if you want to save bees https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/value-farmers-if-you-want-to-save-bees/ In a letter to The Guardian, Jean McKendree from SEI York calls for new agricultural policies to encourage biodiversity. Photo: Peter Schad / Unsplash. In a letter to The Guardian, Jean McKendree from SEI York calls for new agricultural policies to encourage biodiversity.

Photo: Peter Schad / Unsplash.

]]> Thu, 23 May 2019 08:01:22 +0000 https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/value-farmers-if-you-want-to-save-bees/ Press Sea of opportunity https://www.sei.org/features/sea-of-opportunity/ The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted seas in the world. This is partly down to human activity – the Baltic Sea Region is home to 85 million people, along with industries and vast agricultural areas; and partly physical geography – the Baltic Sea is almost completely enclosed, meaning pollutants that enter it tend to stay there. Discovering the Stockholm area in Sweden during winter with the 30,000 islands. Photo: Artur Debat / Getty Images. The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted seas in the world. This is partly down to human activity – the Baltic Sea Region is home to 85 million people, along with industries and vast agricultural areas; and partly physical geography – the Baltic Sea is almost completely enclosed, meaning pollutants that enter it tend to stay there.

Discovering the Stockholm area in Sweden during winter with the 30,000 islands. Photo: Artur Debat / Getty Images.

]]> Sun, 19 May 2019 16:04:15 +0000 Brenda Ochola https://www.sei.org/features/sea-of-opportunity/ Feature Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction https://www.sei.org/events/global-platform-for-disaster-risk-reduction/ The Global Platform is a biennial multi-stakeholder forum to review progress, share knowledge and discuss the latest trends in reducing disaster risk. Aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Photo: Sonny Inbaraj. The Global Platform is a biennial multi-stakeholder forum to review progress, share knowledge and discuss the latest trends in reducing disaster risk.

Aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Photo: Sonny Inbaraj.

]]> Thu, 02 May 2019 05:03:29 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/global-platform-for-disaster-risk-reduction/ Event New directions in earth system governance research https://www.sei.org/publications/new-directions-esg-research/ This article presents the new research framework of the Earth System Governance project, which aims to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant and relevant research community. This article presents the new research framework of the Earth System Governance project, which aims to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant and relevant research community.

]]> Fri, 17 May 2019 10:05:43 +0000 Åsa Persson https://www.sei.org/publications/new-directions-esg-research/ Publication Symbiosis in a circular economy: exploring solutions for improved water and nutrient governance https://www.sei.org/events/symbiosis-in-a-circular-economy-exploring-solutions-for-improved-water-and-nutrient-governance/ “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover” summarizes the idea behind the circular economy. Symbiosis – collaboration between companies or sectors where waste or waste by-products become a resource for something else – is key to enabling business models that allow a shift towards a circular economy. Despite technical and institutional progress towards circularity, knowledge, market and policy gaps remain. The classic view of Gdansk Old Town with the Hanseatic-style buildings and tourist sailing shi... “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover” summarizes the idea behind the circular economy. Symbiosis – collaboration between companies or sectors where waste or waste by-products become a resource for something else – is key to enabling business models that allow a shift towards a circular economy. Despite technical and institutional progress towards circularity, knowledge, market and policy gaps remain.

The classic view of Gdansk Old Town with the Hanseatic-style buildings and tourist sailing ship transports tourists across the River Motlawa to the Baltic Sea for a cruise, Poland. Photo: ewg3D / Getty Images.

]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:06:58 +0000 https://www.sei.org/events/symbiosis-in-a-circular-economy-exploring-solutions-for-improved-water-and-nutrient-governance/ Event It is time to transform our disastrous development model https://www.sei.org/perspectives/it-is-time-to-transform-our-disastrous-development-model/ The current development model followed in much of the world values economic and infrastructure gains over environmental health and human livelihoods. This clearly requires transformation if we are to be successful in reducing disaster risk. The Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction taking place in Geneva this week provides an opportunity to focus on incorporating a newly energized public sector into DRR efforts, ensuring that those on the ground – who bear the brunt of climate-related lo... The current development model followed in much of the world values economic and infrastructure gains over environmental health and human livelihoods. This clearly requires transformation if we are to be successful in reducing disaster risk. The Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction taking place in Geneva this week provides an opportunity to focus on incorporating a newly energized public sector into DRR efforts, ensuring that those on the ground – who bear the brunt of climate-related loss and damages – add their valuable knowledge and action to the transformation process.

Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines, 2015. Photo: Oliver Cam.

]]> Thu, 16 May 2019 09:52:01 +0000 Michael Boyland; Jamie Kemsey https://www.sei.org/perspectives/it-is-time-to-transform-our-disastrous-development-model/ Perspective SDG Synergies: An approach for coherent 2030 Agenda implementation https://www.sei.org/publications/sdg-synergies-factsheet/ This brief introduces the SDG Synergies approach, which governments can use to prioritize Sustainable Development Goals targets and to identify the most effective partnerships and collaborations to achieve them, based on a contextual understanding of real-world interactions between goals. Read the brief below or download as a PDF. This brief introduces the SDG Synergies approach, which governments can use to prioritize Sustainable Development Goals targets and to identify the most effective partnerships and collaborations to achieve them, based on a contextual understanding of real-world interactions between goals.

Read the brief below or download as a PDF.

]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 10:49:28 +0000 Nina Weitz; Henrik Carlsen; Caspar Trimmer https://www.sei.org/publications/sdg-synergies-factsheet/ Publication Sustainable cities: four ways the property sector can help https://www.sei.org/features/sustainable-cities-four-ways-the-property-sector-can-help/ SEI and property developer Fabege invited experts from within and beyond the property sector to a workshop to discuss how the sector can contribute to the sustainable cities of tomorrow. SEI and property developer Fabege invited experts from within and beyond the property sector to a workshop to discuss how the sector can contribute to the sustainable cities of tomorrow.

]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 05:40:16 +0000 Anneli Sundin https://www.sei.org/features/sustainable-cities-four-ways-the-property-sector-can-help/ Feature Hållbara städer: fyra sätt som fastighetsbranschen kan hjälpa till https://www.sei.org/features/hallbara-stader-fyra-satt-som-fastighetsbranschen-kan-hjalpa-till/ I mars 2019 bjöd SEI och fastighetsbolaget Fabege in experter inom fastighetsbranschen och andra samhällsaktörer, för att diskutera hur branschen kan bidra till morgondagens hållbara städer. I mars 2019 bjöd SEI och fastighetsbolaget Fabege in experter inom fastighetsbranschen och andra samhällsaktörer, för att diskutera hur branschen kan bidra till morgondagens hållbara städer.

]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 05:40:32 +0000 Anneli Sundin https://www.sei.org/features/hallbara-stader-fyra-satt-som-fastighetsbranschen-kan-hjalpa-till/ Feature International centre of excellence on transforming development and disaster risk launches new collaborative platform weTRANSFORM https://www.sei.org/features/international-centre-of-excellence-on-transforming-development-and-disaster-risk-launches-new-collaborative-platform-wetransform/ A new collaborative web platform launched by SEI focuses on transformation for equitable, resilient and sustainable development and disaster risk reduction. A new collaborative web platform launched by SEI focuses on transformation for equitable, resilient and sustainable development and disaster risk reduction.

]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 09:23:07 +0000 Jamie Kemsey https://www.sei.org/features/international-centre-of-excellence-on-transforming-development-and-disaster-risk-launches-new-collaborative-platform-wetransform/ Feature