Event on 19 October – 30 October in Yerevan / Join SEI at CBD COP17 in Armenia where our research will help advance global biodiversity action and sustainable development.

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Green sea turtle swimming over a sandy seabed in clear turquoise water.

Five reasons to elevate biodiversity before COP17

Feature / SEI experts set out five reasons to elevate biodiversity on the global agenda ahead of COP17 in Yerevan this October.

22 May 2026 / About Bioeconomy, Ecosystems, Land use, Supply chains and Sustainable lifestyles

Mountain forest landscape with grassy clearing and trees under a partly cloudy sky.

Armenia strengthens its biodiversity agenda ahead of COP17: why it matters now

Feature / Armenia’s biodiversity push ahead of COP17 highlights how ecosystems underpin daily life, resilience and sustainable development.

16 April 2026 / About Adaptation, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Public policy

Seated audience members smile and react to an unseen speaker in a room

SEI at AGU25 Annual Meeting

Past event / SEI US water researchers will share their latest findings and ongoing projects at the AGU25 Annual meeting 15–19 December in New Orleans, Louisiana.

15 December 2025 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Rows of glass lotion and other dispensers stand on a table with people in the background at a trade conference.

Specialty markets: rethinking value chains in the tropics

Perspective / Commodities are not always the answer. Specialties suit development based on livelihood and biodiversity conservation, as well as more sustainable consumption.

15 December 2025 / About Bioeconomy

Two men, wrapped in warm outdoor clothing and hats standing in a moorland landscape. One holds an LED lamp with two hands, level with his head, shining it down onto the ground. Another, standing nearby holds a laptop connected to a number of pieces of scientific equipment on the ground.

Application of a hand-held supplementary light for extending field-based net ecosystem exchange carbon flux measurements in low light conditions

Journal article / Artificial light improves confidence in the measurement of ecosystem exchange rates under limited light conditions.

17 November 2025 / About Climate services and Land use

Overhead view of a dam where the water barrage flows into a turquoise body of water

Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning: using LEAP, WEAP and macroeconomic modelling to plan climate-resilient development

SEI brief / WEAP and LEAP tools can help governments align their mitigation and adaptation strategies to maximize their limited climate finance in water and energy systems.

13 November 2025 / About Adaptation, Energy access and Finance

A man stands on heather moorland with his back to the camera. Directly in front of him, parts of the ground billow smoke as he administers a controlled burn of the heather for land management.

Prescribed heather burning on peatlands: a review of ten key claims made about heather management impacts and implications for future UK policy

Journal article / A total ban on controlled burning is unproductive: alternative heather management planning should be site-specific and include a robust comparison with burning.

29 September 2025 / About Climate services, Land use and Public policy

Forest fires, conflict, and disrupted landscapes

Other publication / This chapter explores how wildfires expose hidden conflicts and power asymmetries in landscape planning, challenging the idea of landscapes as neutral spaces.

18 June 2025 / About Disaster risk and Land use