Initiatives
These are key issues on sustainable development. The SEI initiatives serve as hubs for our research.
This initiative investigates how rapidly-growing cities are affecting resident well-being, and how this interacts with the overall health of city systems.
This initiative aims to guide decision-makers towards more cohesive and constructive governance of bioeconomy pathways, with a focus on the global South.
This initiative brings together expertise in climate services to support planning and decision-making, with a focus on adaptation and disaster resilience.
This programme will foster collaboration and deepen SEI’s engagement with gender and equality issues in the context of development.
This initiative examines what drives people to change their behaviour when it comes to technology adoption or change of daily practices.
This initiative focuses on global trade and production to consumption systems, and identifies new opportunities to promote sustainability.
Our work on global finance looks at how the global financial system supports or undermines societal transitions.
This initiative gathers SEI’s work in sustainable sanitation, bringing together research, capacity-building and policy support.
This initiative focuses on integrated analysis and planning for the mitigation of air pollution and greenhouse gases, including short-lived climate pollutants.
This initiative seeks to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) with equitable, sustainable and resilient development.
This SEI initiative creates a platform for high-quality, timely and policy-relevant research and communications on various facets of fossil fuel development.