Americas

Trase at COP28: Trade practices must change to end emissions from deforestation

Perspective / Countries should collaborate on requiring importers to include action on deforestation at the heart of their sourcing practice, write Trase representatives.

The path to a fossil fuel phase-out

Past event / SEI experts will discuss opportunities for policy and leadership in phasing out fossil fuels at COP28.

Forest and peat loss driven by key agricultural commodities generate more emissions than Germany

Press release / To meet climate targets, world leaders at COP28 are urged to take stronger action against the nature loss linked to global supply chains.

Bottom-up regionality and the Sustainable Development Goals: civil society organizations shaping 2030 Agenda implementation in Latin America

Journal article / This article addresses civil society’s understudied roles in the SDGs framework, focusing on discursive and practical dynamics in the Forum LAC.

“It’s unprecedented”: Zoha Shawoo breaks down COP28’s loss and damage decision

Feature / SEI Scientist and Zoha Shawoo puts the COP28 loss and damage decision into perspective, saying it is both significant and inadequate for the scale of need.

10 new insights in climate science 2023/2024

Other publication / Each year, Future Earth, the Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme gather leading scholars to review the climate research findings.

Fossil fuel atlas: illustrating the threats of fossil fuel production – a rapid threat identification methodology and platform

Other publication / A GIS-based platform allows users to visualize current and planned fossil fuel infrastructure and its overlap with areas of ecological and cultural importance.

The forgotten generation: older people and climate change

Other publication / Older people have an active role to play in contributing to climate action and must be further engaged in initiatives to tackle climate change.

Indien och Sverige stärker partnerskap för global industriomställning och banar väg för LeadIT 2.0

Press release / Indien och Sverige har på COP28 lanserat ett stärkt partnerskap för att driva på klimatomställningen inom den tunga industrin .