Fossil Fuel Atlas: Illustrating the threats of fossil fuel production – a rapid threat identification methodology and platform

Sivan Kartha

Green hilly meadows and forest stretch before a mountain range and a sky containing streaky clouds in Montana.

Montana youth win climate case, with support from SEI expert

Feature / A Montana judge ruled in favor of 16 youth who sued the state for the right to a "healthful environment".

15 August 2023 / About Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy and Wellbeing

Blue river stream meanders and splits through green landscape in Gambia

WEAP training: summer 2023

Past event / SEI scientists will host a three-day training on WEAP, SEI's flagship water modelling software, on 12, 14 and 16 June 2023. Register today.

12 June 2023 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals and Water resources

Coal conveyor belt at coal-burning plant in Montana

“Montana’s emissions matter”: SEI’s Peter Erickson testifies for youth in Montana climate trial

Media coverage / Sixteen young people sued Montana for violating the state constitutional right to a livable climate. An SEI affiliated researcher testified on their behalf.

16 June 2023 / About Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Land use, Mitigation, Participation, Pollution, Public policy and Wellbeing

Sailing through huge icebergs near the Melchior Islands

Opportunities for applying spatial management approaches in the Antarctic marine space

SEI report / A historic view of the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) shows how to make future progress for the Antarctic Treaty.

14 June 2023 / About Geopolitics

Aerial view of Silicon Valley at sunset, surrounding the San Francisco Bay.

Application of watershed-scale habitat modeling and decision-support tools for reservoir reoperations in coastal northern California

Journal article / Researchers used a suite of tools to model human and aquatic habitat water needs in a California watershed and aid local water allocation policy.

8 June 2023 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

An endangered Chinook salmon leaps above the surface of the Sacramento River in California

Balancing aquatic habitat and human water supply in California: a Q&A with Doug Chalmers

Feature / Water managers must balance the needs of aquatic habitat and human supply. SEI Scientist Doug Chalmers explains a new approach to help resolve that tension.

8 June 2023 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Participation, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

The Syr Darya river is framed by bushes and trees beneath a dark, stormy sky in Kazakhstan

The value of cooperation under climate change in Central Asia’s Syr Darya River: Using integrated water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus tools to inform policy

Other publication / Cooperation in the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus among countries sharing the Syr Darya River Basin can improve local livelihoods.

7 June 2023 / About Business, Climate policy, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Geopolitics, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Aerial photography of forest. Vitoria regia. Manaus Botanical Gardens MUSA, Brazil

Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

Journal article / The paper offers a new conservation model and highlights the need to tackle distant wealth-related drivers of biodiversity loss, while empowering local stewards

24 May 2023 / About Forests and Supply Chains

Eudaimonia in the Amazon: relational values as a deep leverage point to curb tropical deforestation

Journal article / The study draws on over 70 in-depth interviews in two states of Brazil to understand what has motivated people not to join deforestation activities.

29 March 2023 / About Forests and Land use