Publications

Intergenerational justice and youth participation

Other publication / This report gives an overview of intergenerational justice, youth concerns, and mechanisms for youth participation across Europe.

3 December 2025 / About Participation

Birds along the San Motor, an artificial sand beach designed as a nature-based solution for coastal defence in the Netherlands.

Scaling knowledge interoperability for accelerated climate action through the Climate Connectivity Hub and Taxonomy

Journal article / This article examines the value of taxonomies to advance findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) knowledge on climate adaptation platforms.

3 March 2026 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

White snow looks almost blue in twilight, on the ground, a tree and the roof of a small yellow house with glowing yellow lit windows.

A cold draft for many households: learning from Sweden’s Social Climate Plan to promote a truly just transition

SEI brief / An evaluation of the Swedish Social Climate Plan with the Transitional Assistance Framework, with examples from other member states’ proposed plans.

3 March 2026 / About Fossil fuels, Renewables and Transport

Many different colourful fresh vegetables in the wooden box

Mapping school food provision models in European cities: Operational, infrastructural, and financial insights

Journal article / This study contributes to a deeper understanding of school food provision models in Europe.

26 February 2026 / About Food and agriculture and Public policy

Flooding in 2024 in Pontypridd, Wales, UK

Advancing climate adaptation through citizen engagement: knowledge development, sharing, and implementation in Europe

Journal article / The authors analyse citizen engagement initiatives, examining aps between theory and practice, and key hurdles to surmount to enhance climate change adaptation.

26 February 2026 / About Adaptation and Climate services

View of agricultural fields in Kakheti, Georgia

Georgia’s potentials for sustainable intensification, increasing food security and rural incomes

Journal article / The authors estimate Georgia’s potential for sustainable intensification to achieve self-sufficiency for wheat, maize, and barley.

23 February 2026 / About Food and agriculture

Mexican agricultural laborer spraying fungicide on an onion field

Guidance document on implementing domestic financing for the sound management of chemicals and waste

Other publication / Guidance on building sustainable domestic financing for chemicals and waste management to reduce reliance on external funding.

19 February 2026 / About Finance

Co-designing soft climate adaptation: citizen centred solutions across four European pilots

Journal article / This study examines a staged co-creation process implemented across four pilot regions to engage diverse citizen groups in shaping soft adaptation measures.

18 February 2026 / About Adaptation and Participation

A standardized definition of rapid evidence assessment for environmental applications

Journal article / A consensus-driven definition of rapid evidence assessment for environmental applications, aimed at improving consistency and transparency.

17 February 2026

Business-as-usual and fantasy planning – an analysis of equity within climate adaptation planning for sanitation in Nairobi

Journal article / This study shows how climate adaptation planning for sanitation in Nairobi reinforces inequality by favouring sewer systems over equitable solutions.

17 February 2026 / About Adaptation and Sanitation

Cooking fuels and household air pollution in resource-constrained urban environments: a field assessment

Journal article / Household cooking contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and short-lived climate pollutants, especially where charcoal, kerosene are widely used.

11 February 2026 / About Household energy, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Worker dressed in black and a red helmet inspects a steel pipe, its opening taller than the person

2025: a year in review for green steel

Other publication / This brief reviews the performance of the global green steel and green iron sectors in 2025, giving policy signals and developments to watch in 2026.

11 February 2026 / About Business, Innovation, Mitigation, Public policy and Supply chains

Aerial view of the city of Tupiza, Bolivia, on a sunny day. Buildings line the Tupiza River, cutting through the middle of the foreground, with a bridge that runs across it. Mountains line the background and the sun shines in the blue sky.

Socially responsive water adaptation planning: lessons from community informed water modelling in Bolivia and Cambodia

Journal article / This journal article describes how community-informed water systems modelling has fostered more resilient, equitable water management in Cambodia and Bolivia.

11 February 2026 / About Planning and modelling and Water resources

Smoke rises from a chimney stake, which is silhouetted against a soft blue dusky sky with darker blue clouds

Clarifying what is meant by greenhouse gas ‘removals’ and categorising types of ‘removal-related activities’

Journal article / This journal article explores the question: What exactly is a greenhouse gas "removal"?

5 February 2026 / About Business, Climate policy, Fossil fuels and Mitigation

Aerial view of Monterrey, Mexico, featuring a wide sprawl of buildings in the foreground and mountains on the horizon under a lightly clouded blue sky

Geographic SDG spillovers: how state-level policies influence the metropolitan level in Monterrey

SEI brief / This brief demonstrates the SDG Synergies tool's new geographic spillovers feature by comparing metropolitan and state climate policies in Monterrey, Mexico.

11 February 2026 / About Climate policy, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals