SEI https://www.sei.org/ Bridging science and policy since 1989 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:07:12 +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 The Short Guide to Environmental Policy https://www.sei.org/publications/the-short-guide-to-environmental-policy/ This guide provides a concise introduction to post-war environmental policies, bringing together perspectives from economics, sociology, politics and social policy. This guide provides a concise introduction to post-war environmental policies, bringing together perspectives from economics, sociology, politics and social policy.

]]> Wed, 14 May 2014 12:31:58 +0000 Gary Haq https://www.sei.org/publications/the-short-guide-to-environmental-policy/ Publication Solution scanning as a key policy tool: identifying management interventions to help maintain and enhance regulating ecosystem services https://www.sei.org/publications/solution-scanning-as-a-key-policy-tool-identifying-management-interventions-to-help-maintain-and-enhance-regulating-ecosystem-services/ This article systematically identifies a wide array of possible environmental interventions that policy-makers could apply in different settings, several of which have the potential to deliver multiple benefits. This article systematically identifies a wide array of possible environmental interventions that policy-makers could apply in different settings, several of which have the potential to deliver multiple benefits.

]]> Tue, 13 May 2014 22:00:00 +0000 Toby Gardner https://www.sei.org/publications/solution-scanning-as-a-key-policy-tool-identifying-management-interventions-to-help-maintain-and-enhance-regulating-ecosystem-services/ Publication Q&A: Gary Haq on the evolution of environmental policy https://www.sei.org/features/qa-gary-haq-evolution-environmental-policy/ A new book by SEI Research Fellow Gary Haq and his University of York colleague Carolyn Snell offers an introduction to environmental policies over the last 60 years, bringing together perspectives from economics, sociology, politics, and social policy. A new book by SEI Research Fellow Gary Haq and his University of York colleague Carolyn Snell offers an introduction to environmental policies over the last 60 years, bringing together perspectives from economics, sociology, politics, and social policy.

]]> Wed, 14 May 2014 14:53:14 +0000 Howard Cambridge https://www.sei.org/features/qa-gary-haq-evolution-environmental-policy/ Feature Can carbon revenues help transform household energy markets? A scoping study with cookstove programmes in India and Kenya https://www.sei.org/publications/can-carbon-revenues-help-transform-household-energy-markets-a-scoping-study-with-cookstove-programmes-in-india-and-kenya/ This report uses case studies of India and Kenya to examine the growing role of carbon finance in cookstove projects, with a focus on how it might support market transformation. This report uses case studies of India and Kenya to examine the growing role of carbon finance in cookstove projects, with a focus on how it might support market transformation.

]]> Tue, 13 May 2014 21:51:26 +0000 Carrie M. Lee; Fiona Lambe; Marie Jürisoo; Oliver Johnson https://www.sei.org/publications/can-carbon-revenues-help-transform-household-energy-markets-a-scoping-study-with-cookstove-programmes-in-india-and-kenya/ Publication China’s radical urbanisation and bringing capital and labour together step by step https://www.sei.org/publications/chinas-radical-urbanisation-and-bringing-capital-and-labour-together-step-by-step/ Tue, 13 May 2014 08:40:27 +0000 Guoyi Han https://www.sei.org/publications/chinas-radical-urbanisation-and-bringing-capital-and-labour-together-step-by-step/ Publication Using a Nexus Approach to Support Development and Environmental Planning in Ethiopia https://www.sei.org/publications/using-a-nexus-approach-to-support-development-and-environmental-planning-in-ethiopia/ This brief describes an ongoing collaborative project in the upper Blue Nile region of Ethiopia that applies an integrated nexus toolkit assembled by SEI for integrated analysis of potential development pathways. This brief describes an ongoing collaborative project in the upper Blue Nile region of Ethiopia that applies an integrated nexus toolkit assembled by SEI for integrated analysis of potential development pathways.

]]> Mon, 12 May 2014 22:00:00 +0000 Holger Hoff; Louise Karlberg https://www.sei.org/publications/using-a-nexus-approach-to-support-development-and-environmental-planning-in-ethiopia/ Publication A nexus approach for sustainable development in Ningxia, China https://www.sei.org/publications/a-nexus-approach-for-sustainable-development-in-ningxia-china/ This discussion brief describes ongoing work by SEI to apply an analytical nexus framework in Ningxia, an arid, rapidly developing province in northern China that extends across the Loess Plateau and the Yellow River plains. This discussion brief describes ongoing work by SEI to apply an analytical nexus framework in Ningxia, an arid, rapidly developing province in northern China that extends across the Loess Plateau and the Yellow River plains.

]]> Mon, 12 May 2014 22:00:00 +0000 Guoyi Han; Holger Hoff https://www.sei.org/publications/a-nexus-approach-for-sustainable-development-in-ningxia-china/ Publication Can low-carbon options help expand energy access in Africa? https://www.sei.org/features/can-low-carbon-options-help-expand-energy-access-africa/ As part of the New Climate Economy project, SEI and IIASA convened a workshop in Nairobi to examine the extent to which these technologies are making a difference, and what it will take to scale them up. As part of the New Climate Economy project, SEI and IIASA convened a workshop in Nairobi to examine the extent to which these technologies are making a difference, and what it will take to scale them up.

]]> Tue, 13 May 2014 10:49:18 +0000 Marion Davis https://www.sei.org/features/can-low-carbon-options-help-expand-energy-access-africa/ Feature Special journal issue examines evolving international water law https://www.sei.org/features/special-journal-issue-examines-evolving-international-water-law/ SEI Research Fellow Harro van Asselt is editor of RECIEL journal and co-editor of a special issue on major ongoing developments in international water law. SEI Research Fellow Harro van Asselt is editor of RECIEL journal and co-editor of a special issue on major ongoing developments in international water law.

]]> Sun, 11 May 2014 01:43:50 +0000 Marion Davis https://www.sei.org/features/special-journal-issue-examines-evolving-international-water-law/ Feature Delivering Global Environmental Benefits for Sustainable Development: Report to the 5th GEF Assembly https://www.sei.org/publications/delivering-global-environmental-benefits-for-sustainable-development-report-to-the-5th-gef-assembly/ This report summarizes advice on future policy directions for the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) from the GEF’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), in advance of the Fifth GEF Assembly at the end of May 2014. This report summarizes advice on future policy directions for the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) from the GEF’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), in advance of the Fifth GEF Assembly at the end of May 2014.

]]> Thu, 08 May 2014 09:16:00 +0000 Jakob Granit https://www.sei.org/publications/delivering-global-environmental-benefits-for-sustainable-development-report-to-the-5th-gef-assembly/ Publication Seminar explores opportunities for collaboration on sustainable sanitation in Africa https://www.sei.org/features/seminar-explores-opportunities-collaboration-sustainable-sanitation-africa/ SEI invited stakeholders associated with water and sanitation development to a seminar in Nairobi in April 2014. The main aim of the seminar was to give a brief overview of SEI’s work on sustainable sanitation and explore opportunities for collaboration with different partners and actors on future projects within the newly launched SEI Sustainable and Productive Sanitation Initiative for Africa. SEI invited stakeholders associated with water and sanitation development to a seminar in Nairobi in April 2014. The main aim of the seminar was to give a brief overview of SEI’s work on sustainable sanitation and explore opportunities for collaboration with different partners and actors on future projects within the newly launched SEI Sustainable and Productive Sanitation Initiative for Africa.

]]> Thu, 08 May 2014 20:00:00 +0000 Ian Caldwell https://www.sei.org/features/seminar-explores-opportunities-collaboration-sustainable-sanitation-africa/ Feature Adding missing links in sanitation value chains https://www.sei.org/features/adding-missing-links-sanitation-value-chains/ This five-part webinar, part of the SEI-SuSanA webinar series that examines Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sanitation projects covers projects in India, South Africa and Kenya. Thu, 08 May 2014 20:00:00 +0000 Ian Caldwell https://www.sei.org/features/adding-missing-links-sanitation-value-chains/ Feature Global review of 169 think tanks rates SEI among ‘transparency leaders’ https://www.sei.org/features/global-review-169-think-tanks-rates-sei-among-transparency-leaders/ Transparify’s study gauged the extent to which organizations publicly disclose through their websites where their funding comes from, awarding up to five stars depending on the level of disclosure. Transparify’s study gauged the extent to which organizations publicly disclose through their websites where their funding comes from, awarding up to five stars depending on the level of disclosure.

]]> Wed, 07 May 2014 12:16:28 +0000 Ian Caldwell https://www.sei.org/features/global-review-169-think-tanks-rates-sei-among-transparency-leaders/ Feature The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Relevance for International Waters and the Global Environmental Facility https://www.sei.org/publications/the-political-economy-of-regionalism-the-relevance-for-international-waters-and-the-global-environmental-facility/ This report explores the role of regionalism and regional organizations in managing transboundary waters, and how this has been reflected in the design and implementation of Global Environmental Facility (GEF) projects on international waters. This report explores the role of regionalism and regional organizations in managing transboundary waters, and how this has been reflected in the design and implementation of Global Environmental Facility (GEF) projects on international waters.

]]> Mon, 05 May 2014 10:56:37 +0000 Jakob Granit https://www.sei.org/publications/the-political-economy-of-regionalism-the-relevance-for-international-waters-and-the-global-environmental-facility/ Publication Two hundred years of local avian extinctions in Eastern Amazonia https://www.sei.org/publications/two-hundred-years-of-local-avian-extinctions-in-eastern-amazonia/ This article describes a review of historical data sets of specimen records and results of contemporary surveys to document rainforest avian species extinctions over 200 years in the Eastern Amazon region. This article describes a review of historical data sets of specimen records and results of contemporary surveys to document rainforest avian species extinctions over 200 years in the Eastern Amazon region.

]]> Thu, 01 May 2014 22:00:00 +0000 Toby Gardner https://www.sei.org/publications/two-hundred-years-of-local-avian-extinctions-in-eastern-amazonia/ Publication It’s time to look beyond the UN’s $100bn climate finance target https://www.sei.org/perspectives/look-beyond-100bn-climate-target/ At the Cancún Climate Change Conference in 2010 (COP16), developed countries pledged to mobilize $100 billion USD in climate finance per year, starting in 2020. Yet three and a half years later, the Green Climate Fund is still not operational, because several major issues remain unresolved, including how to deal with private-sector contributions to climate finance. In this blog post, Adis Dzebo, a research fellow at SEI in Stockholm, and Pieter Pauw, a researcher at the German Development Ins... At the Cancún Climate Change Conference in 2010 (COP16), developed countries pledged to mobilize $100 billion USD in climate finance per year, starting in 2020. Yet three and a half years later, the Green Climate Fund is still not operational, because several major issues remain unresolved, including how to deal with private-sector contributions to climate finance.

In this blog post, Adis Dzebo, a research fellow at SEI in Stockholm, and Pieter Pauw, a researcher at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) who is currently a guest researcher at SEI, outline the key unresolved issues but argue that none of them should stop climate finance from flowing right away.

]]> Thu, 01 May 2014 13:59:25 +0000 https://www.sei.org/perspectives/look-beyond-100bn-climate-target/ Perspective Implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management in Cambodia: effects of regime design https://www.sei.org/publications/implementation-of-the-strategic-approach-to-international-chemicals-management-in-cambodia-effects-of-regime-design/ This article examines the early implementation of SAICM, based on a national-level case study in Cambodia and interviews with SAICM stakeholders. This article examines the early implementation of SAICM, based on a national-level case study in Cambodia and interviews with SAICM stakeholders.

]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:00:00 +0000 Åsa Persson; Linn Persson https://www.sei.org/publications/implementation-of-the-strategic-approach-to-international-chemicals-management-in-cambodia-effects-of-regime-design/ Publication Addressing the risk of double counting emission reductions under the UNFCCC (WP) https://www.sei.org/publications/addressing-the-risk-of-double-counting-emission-reductions-under-the-unfccc-wp/ Avoiding double counting of emission reductions is a key policy concern to Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper systematically assesses how double counting can occur and how it could be addressed. Avoiding double counting of emission reductions is a key policy concern to Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper systematically assesses how double counting can occur and how it could be addressed.

]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:00:00 +0000 Anja Kollmuss; Michael Lazarus; Lambert Schneider https://www.sei.org/publications/addressing-the-risk-of-double-counting-emission-reductions-under-the-unfccc-wp/ Publication Global sustainability and human prosperity – contribution to the Post-2015 agenda and the development of Sustainable Development Goals https://www.sei.org/publications/global-sustainability-and-human-prosperity-contribution-to-the-post-2015-agenda-and-the-development-of-sustainable-development-goals/ This discussion paper looks into the links between human well-being and the biosphere, and describes why and how these links should influence the formulation of the future global Sustainable Development Goals. This discussion paper looks into the links between human well-being and the biosphere, and describes why and how these links should influence the formulation of the future global Sustainable Development Goals.

]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:00:00 +0000 Åsa Persson https://www.sei.org/publications/global-sustainability-and-human-prosperity-contribution-to-the-post-2015-agenda-and-the-development-of-sustainable-development-goals/ Publication Eyesore or energy? Dutch government needs to take a lead in framing the national debate on wind turbines https://www.sei.org/features/eyesore-energy-dutch-government-needs-take-lead-framing-national-debate-wind-turbines/ Eyesore or energy? Dutch government needs to take a lead in framing the national debate on wind turbines Eyesore or energy? Dutch government needs to take a lead in framing the national debate on wind turbines

]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:00:00 +0000 Ian Caldwell https://www.sei.org/features/eyesore-energy-dutch-government-needs-take-lead-framing-national-debate-wind-turbines/ Feature