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SEI Currents 2022

Past event / What risks and opportunities are surfacing? What issues warrant greater attention? Watch the event as SEI experts offer their perspectives.

12 January 2022 / About Climate policy and Public policy

The value of water

SEI podcast / Explore how valuing water is key to tackling poverty, climate change and resource equity, with insights from SEI experts across global water initiatives.

12 January 2022 / Water stories / Adaptation, Public policy, Sanitation, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Four researchers standing beneath a tree with measurement equipment tied to a branch

Opportunity: Join the Programme Life Cycle Support

Feature / SweDev and the Development and Aid Policy Team is announcing an opportunity for development practitioners to show interest in the Programme Life Cycle Support.

12 January 2022 / About Adaptation, Behaviour and choice, Business, Cities, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Finance, Geopolitics, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

Bright light in space above Earth with stars in background

New video: Climate risks to global food trade

Feature / Kevin M. Adams explains how climate risks to major commodities can be addressed in this film produced by Mistra Geopolitics.

12 January 2022 / About Climate policy, Food and agriculture and Supply chains

Patches of grass shaped as footprints contrast with parched and cracked soil beneath it, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK

The inequality-emissions link and what it means for the 1.5°C goal

SEI brief / This report highlights the methods used to calculate the chasm in carbon emissions between the world's richest and poorest populations.

10 January 2022 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Pollution, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles

Row of yachts and superyacht docked at Croatian resort town

Q&A: Paris Agreement won’t rectify carbon footprint of the rich

Feature / SEI Scientist Emily Ghosh discusses the continued disparity in carbon emissions between the poor and everyone else.

10 January 2022 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Pollution, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles

Cleared forest with trees in distance, Tasmania, Australia

Llamados por la ambición climática aumentan y se convierten en demandas de responsabilidad climática

Perspective / Los llamados a la acción climática están a punto de evolucionar y convertirse en demandas de responsabilidad climática.

7 January 2022 / About Climate policy, Finance, Pollution and Public policy

Aerial view of Bingham Copper Mine covered in snow, Utah, US, 2019

¿Está el mundo entrando en un superciclo de materias primas?

Perspective / Los precios de las materias primas agrícolas y mineras están al frente de las tendencias económicas y afectan la capacidad de alcanzar los objetivos climáticos.

7 January 2022 / About Ecosystems, Finance, Food and agriculture and Sustainable Development Goals

Aumento de la violencia contra activistas medioambientales es una amenaza para todos

Perspective / En todo el Sur Global, los activistas medioambientales se enfrentan a una creciente violencia: una tendencia que sugiere que sus esfuerzos son importantes.

7 January 2022 / About Behaviour and choice, Ecosystems, Land use, Participation, Public policy and Wellbeing