Sub-Saharan Africa

Capacity gaps in land-based mitigation technologies and practices: a first stock take

Journal article / This article investigates capacity gaps to successfully facilitate land-based mitigation technologies (LMTs) adoption and/or scaling in different regions.

Supporting climate-resilient urban planning: 10 lessons from cities in southern Africa

Other publication / This brief presents insights about ways to integrate climate information into adaptation planning in urban ares of sub-Saharan Africa.

SEI and IRENA form partnership on renewable energy work

Feature / SEI and the the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing a working collaboration on energy issues.

Saving the world through private-sector efficiency and local empowerment? Discursive legitimacy construction for social entrepreneurship in the Global South

Journal article / This article explores how legitimacy is discursively constructed for social entrepreneurship in the Global South.

Gender and social outcomes of WASH interventions: synthesis of research evidence

Other publication / This systematic evidence synthesis collated evidence on the impact of WASH interventions on GESI outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

Scaling up gas and electric cooking in low- and middle-income countries: climate threat or mitigation strategy with co-benefits?

Journal article / A novel analysis shows the global climate and health benefits of switching biomass cookstoves in low- and middle-income countries to electricity and LPG.

Novel research shows health, climate benefits of increasing access to electricity and gas for cooking in low- and middle-income countries

Press release / Expanding the use of LPG and/or grid electricity to replace biomass-fueled cooking in low- and middle-income countries benefits human health and climate.

New research on the benefits of cleaner cooking: Q&A with Rob Bailis

Feature / SEI's Rob Bailis led research for a journal article featuring the first known analysis of the health and climate consequences of large-scale fuel transitions.