2030 Agenda Archives

Powerful cross ocean wave breaking during a dark, stormy evening in Australia.

SEI Currents – key trends shaping the global agenda in 2025 – online event 21 January

Media advisory / SEI Currents 2025 presents three key trends shaping global agendas in 2025 and beyond.

15 January 2025 / About Climate policy and Sustainable Development Goals

A Guanaco stands in a prairie in front of a blue Lake Pehoe in Patagonian Chile, with the black snowy cliffs of Los Cuernos penetrating a deep blue sky with small white clouds.

Other publication / The 2024 IPBES Transformative Change Assessment details the causes of biodiversity loss and offers principles for the needed transformations to reverse course.

18 December 2024 / About Ecosystems

Representatives from SEI and IRD at the signing ceremony in Brussels.

New collaboration agreement signed by SEI and IRD

Feature / SEI and IRD has signed a new collaboration agreement that aims to further strengthen science and policy interaction in environmental research.

6 December 2024 / About Sustainable Development Goals

Smoke emanates from forested hillside in Cocora Valley, Colombia.

Understanding and overcoming policy (in)coherence to control deforestation in Colombia

SEI brief / This policy brief details how Colombia's efforts to reduce deforestation can conflict with other environmental policies and goals, such as the 2030 Agenda.

2 December 2024 / About Climate policy, Forests, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

Launch of the ERASuD Alliance in Brussels with SEI Executive Director Måns NIlsson (3rd from left). Photo: Tim Suljada /SEI.

New European Research Alliance for Sustainable Development calls for greater EU focus on collaborative research with low- and middle-income countries

Press release / Today in Brussels, 12 European research organizations urged the EU to focus on collaboration with low- and middle-income countries to tackle global challenges.

22 November 2024 / About Climate policy, Energy access and Sustainable Development Goals

Exterior view of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, featuring the iconic tall glass building, surrounding structures, and rows of international flags lining the front.

Mistra Geopolitics Director invited as an expert to UNDP in New York

Feature / Björn-Ola Linnér, Director of Mistra Geopolitics and Professor at Linköping University, has been appointed as an expert to the UN's Human Security Colloquium.

21 November 2024 / About Geopolitics, Innovation, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

Container ship transporting goods in Spain, Europe.

Climate change and geopolitical division pose risks to food security, but there are solutions

Press release / A new report, by SEI and Mistra Geopolitics, shows that climate change, geopolitical tensions and geoeconomic division are posing risks to food security.

19 November 2024 / About Climate policy, Food and agriculture, Supply chains and Sustainable Development Goals

Launch of Fossil Fuel Atlas and expansion of Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) to make energy-related data and decision-making more accessible than ever

Media advisory / On Thursday, SEI will unveil an interactive fossil fuel mapping tool and an expansion of free license availability to the world’s most popular energy software.

12 November 2024 / About Climate policy, Climate services, Energy access and Fossil fuels

The carbon footprints of consumption of goods and services in Sweden at municipal and postcode level and policy interventions

Journal article / This study provides households' carbon footprint estimates for all Swedish municipalities and examines how these data can be used to support policymaking.

8 November 2024 / About Climate policy, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles