COP

Side event on the fossil fuel production gap to include UNSG Special Envoy, government officials, UNEP, labor representative

Media advisory / The panel will explore the findings of the recent Production Gap Report and discuss policy options for winding down fossil fuel production.

Watch the adaptation blind spot

Perspective / Guidance for national adaptation planning needs to help Least Developed Countries assess indirect climate risks.

How can multilateral development banks help make a “just” transition?

Perspective / Multilateral development banks must work and think differently across all operations to help spur net-zero carbon transitions that are “just”.

Our guide to COP25

Feature / Find explainers, background and contacts for SEI's involvement in COP25, held from 2–13 December in Madrid, Spain.

Why is it so hard to spend climate finance?

Perspective / Data from SEI’s Aid Atlas tool highlights problems with spending funds aimed at tackling climate change. This needs urgent attention.

How to make COP25 an “ambitious” COP

Feature / Here are some of the key tasks parties to the UNFCCC have before them at COP25.

Carbon offsets are all the rage again. But can they be used to raise global climate ambitions?

Perspective / SEI's Derik Broekhoff explains the importance of COP 25 to offsets — and how Paris Agreement rules could drive significant mitigation.

After Chile pulls out of hosting COP 25, is it possible to reconcile goals for climate, sustainable development and just transitions?

Perspective / The protests in Chile and pulling out as host of COP25 show: Climate action, sustainable development, and just transitions are goals that have to be reconciled.

Chile’s cancellation of COP25 highlights the social justice dimension of climate change

Perspective / SEI’s Ivonne Lobos Alva explains why Chile’s decision underscores the pressing need for just transitions that involve the people who are feeling left behind.