Sweden Archives

Brooklyn Bridge foregrounding New York City's skyline

SEI at Climate Week NYC 2026

Past event / SEI joins the Climate Week in New York to highlight global leadership and finance solutions for accelerating the transition to net zero industry.

20 September 2026 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Disaster risk

Forest landscape in the Tapajós National Forest in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Amazonian study identifies most effective ways of conserving biodiversity and carbon

Press release / As El Niño intensifies across the Amazon, new research in Science highlights the urgent need to better protect the region’s remaining forests from disturbances.

17 September 2026 / About Climate policy, Finance, Forests and Geopolitics

Man working on a small vineyard with his tablet

Digitalization in Swedish agroecological contexts: understanding technology adoption using social practice theory

Journal article / The study explores how Swedish agroecological farmers adopt and perceive digital technologies and what shapes their use.

3 September 2026 / About Food and agriculture

A cement plant in the morning sun in Thailand.

The climate potential of clay in the cement industry

Press release / One of the world’s oldest construction materials, clay, could help deliver lower-carbon cement, according to a new report from LeadIT.

3 September 2026 / About Climate policy, Public policy and Supply chains

Two industrial chimneys reach up into a blue sky, with a plume streaming out of the center-right stack, looming over industrial buildings with bright yellow doors and ladders.

Financing carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) – the Swedish example

Other publication / This overview of the development, financing and commercialization of CCUS in Sweden finds that most initiatives remain at the R&D, feasibility or pilot stage.

21 August 2026 / About Climate policy

Dark flowing water creates white foam as it crashes into calm water, moving left to right, with ice on either side.

What are the environmental and socio-economic impacts and associated mitigation measures of small and pumped storage hydropower? A Systematic Review Protocol

Journal article / Researchers will conduct a review that is global in scope, with the aim to inform Swedish decision making on hydropower.

14 August 2026 / About Renewables and Water resources

Arial view of roofs of apartment buildings with solar arrays and plants on the roofs.

Modelling degrowth policies with system dynamics: towards policy coherence

Journal article / The authors use the iSDG-Sweden system dynamics model to study the impacts and dynamics of combined degrowth policies in a high-income country.

14 August 2026 / About Behaviour and choice and Public policy

Power lines running through snow-covered forest under a pale winter sky.

A call for power: energy poverty vs data centres

Perspective / As data centres expand across northern Sweden, Jenny von Platten asks who the country's energy is actually for.

13 August 2026 / About Energy access, Household energy, Public policy and Wellbeing

Brown trees on blackened soil fill the top half, bright green trees and grass with light yellow houses and buildings at the bottom, divided by a road and intersection.

Assessing the impact of wildfires on the Swedish housing market: a case study of the 2014 Västmanland wildfire

Journal article / The largest wildfire in Sweden’s recent history affected nearby housing prices and time-on-market.

10 August 2026 / About Behaviour and choice