Perspectives

Data challenges in transboundary rivers: My experience in the Meghna Basin across Bangladesh and India

Perspective / Modelling the transboundary Meghna River (India/Bangladesh) at SEI Asia reveals a stark reality: data scarcity and geopolitics are key challenges.

9 July 2025 / About Water resources

Why should we care about places we will never see? Rethinking distance in climate adaptation

Perspective / In this perspective, Peter Lange explains why empathy, imagination and cultural memory are as crucial to climate adaptation as technology and finance.

2 July 2025 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

Why gender-inclusion matters in building climate resilience in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta 

Perspective / This blog sheds light on how GS4Infra project integrates resilience and inclusivity into the communities’ infrastructure in Vietnam's Cù Lao Dung district.

24 June 2025 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Participation

Man sits on a waterfront rock gazing across the river at the twilight skyline in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Strengthening justice in the Asian energy transition

Perspective / SEI's Stefan Bößner and Huiling Zhu discuss the implications of their work on AI-supported analysis of energy transition policies in China and Southeast Asia.

24 June 2025 / About Climate policy

People gathered in a conference room participating in a tabletop exercise, with documents, maps, and coffee on tables arranged in a U-shape; a presentation slide is projected at the front of the room.

Camaraderie in chaos: using play to build needed trust in uncertain times

Perspective / Serious games offer a way to help foster the trust that underpins needed collaboration on climate, environment and sustainable development issues.

16 June 2025 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

A shoreline view of a fishing village with several wooden boats docked along the water, simple houses with tin roofs, and people gathered near the shore under a bright blue sky.

Grid expectations: how mini-grid firms are managing investment and regulatory uncertainty in Kenya

Perspective / Gridless Solutions initiative researchers share insights from a recent study of two firms in Kenya, plus recommendations for companies, governments and donors.

11 June 2025 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Finance and Household energy

The missing link: how GEIC helps us understand the biodiversity impacts of consumption

Perspective / Trase highlights how the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator informs fairer, clearer and stronger policies to protect biodiversity.

28 May 2025 / About Public policy and Supply chains

High-voltage power line tower crossing a vineyard landscape in rural Spain, with mountains visible in the background under a clear blue sky.

Blackouts aren’t new – but is Europe’s grid ready for the next one?

Perspective / The Spanish blackout shows Europe’s energy transition needs urgent grid investment, smarter technology and stronger resilience to avoid future failures.

2 May 2025 / About Disaster risk, Innovation, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Renewables

When conservation collides with local livelihoods: insights from wetlands in Bangladesh and India

Perspective / In the wetlands of Bangladesh and India, conflicting policies are degrading ecosystems and threatening food security.

2 May 2025 / About Water resources