climate impacts

Bangkok’s Climate Week: Turning climate ideas into action

Perspective / SEI Asia will lead sessions to explore research and innovative solutions to tackle the climate crisis during the Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW).

Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) 2025 Science – Policy Dialogue

Past event / SEI and UNEP will co-host a science-policy dialogue side event at the Second Africa Climate Summit 2025 in Addis Ababa.

Seasonal heatwave forecasting with explainable machine learning and remote sensing data

Journal article / This article investigates machine learning models for predicting heatwaves, aiding early warnings and mitigation planning.

Knowledge gaps about mining impacts on Sami lands: a call for epistemic justice in European minerals extraction

Journal article / This article examines the gap between environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for new mines in Sweden and actual impacts experienced by the Indigenous Sámi.

Europe’s heatwave cities: lessons from Estonia’s fight to keep cool

Perspective / Estonian cities are starting to adapt to climate change – the summer heatwaves make it increasingly dangerous not to.

Extreme heat and heatwaves: hazard awareness and impact mitigation

Journal article / This journal comment details the importance of having quantifiable, standardized, multihazard early warning systems to address heatwaves.

Making the most of climate field schools for adaptation, mitigation and rural livelihoods

SEI brief / Climate field schools based in ecosystem-based adaptation principles can help strengthen farmers' livelihoods and enhance climate resilience and sustainability.

SEI’s Nella Canales in The Independent: aid cuts threaten vulnerable nations’ climate disaster preparation

Media coverage / Research Fellow Nella Canales weighs in on The Independent's reporting on how aid cuts stall climate adaptation in vulnerable countries.

Why should we care about places we will never see? Rethinking distance in climate adaptation

Perspective / In this perspective, Peter Lange explains why empathy, imagination and cultural memory are as crucial to climate adaptation as technology and finance.