Pakistan Archives

Displaced people from heavy monsoon flooding rest at a temporary tent housing camp organized by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in Sukkur, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. Months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding have killed over a 1000 people and affected 3.3 million in this South Asian nation while half a million people have become homeless.

Five priorities for a meaningful post-2025 climate finance target

Perspective / The new global quantified target for climate finance post-2025 needs to address and overcome the many difficulties that the current target faces.

20 September 2022 / About Climate policy and Finance

An SEI researcher and trainees in Pakistan look at a laptop computer during a training on SEI's energy modelling software, LEAP

Pakistan aspires to LEAP into a new future with SEI training

Feature / SEI researchers trained energy sector practitioners on how to use LEAP in Islamabad, Pakistan, as part of the nation's effort to tackle its energy crisis.

1 September 2022 / About Business, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Renewables

Woman walking in desert landscape with goods on head

Exploring the Environment-Conflict-Migration Nexus in Asia

Other publication / This study examines the nexus between climate change, migration and conflict within Asia, with particular attention to Afghanistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

28 June 2022 / About Disaster risk

Harvested field on fire. Symbolizing burnings, air, punjab, crop-residue, rice-wheat burnings.

Q&A: SEI’s Amar Čaušević explains the effects of rice-wheat burnings in India

Feature / In this Q&A, SEI Policy Fellow Amar Čauševic explains the wider consequences of rice-wheat burnings in India, as well as the tricky system causing them.

23 May 2022 / About Food and agriculture, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Cattle graze on yellow grass near watering hole in dry Brazilian landscape in front of mountains, Porteirinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Beyond deforestation: water use in global agricultural commodity supply chains

SEI brief / Deforestation is not the only factor that should be considered in a crop's environmental footprint. Water use is often overlooked in agricultural policy.

2 May 2022 / About Business, Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use, Public policy, Supply chains and Water resources

Aerial view of two liquefied natural gas tankers moored at a jetty in Malta

The US can provide Europe with LNG while advancing climate goals

Perspective / SEI Senior Scientist Peter Erickson says it's possible for the US to offset European dependence on Russian LNG and advance climate goals.

1 April 2022 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Public policy and Supply chains

Tibetan prayer flags on glacier on mountain top with higher peaks in background and large clouds under blue sky, Langtang National Park, Himalayas, Nepal

Glacial lake outburst floods: A shared risk across the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Feature / When glacial lakes breach their moraine dams, huge amounts of water are released, with devastating impacts across regions.

10 November 2021 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk and Mitigation

Enhancing climate change commitments to improve air quality and human health: practical experience from the UK and Asia

Past event / At an Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2021 event, representatives from SEI, UNEP, Asia and the UK will share their experiences on updating NDCs and similar policies.

09 July 2021 / About Climate policy, Climate services, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

The Carbon Inequality Era

Other publication / This paper draws on new data examining the starkly different global distribution of carbon consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond.

21 September 2020 / About Climate policy, Finance and Fossil fuels