Puesta en marcha del Fondo para Pérdidas y Daños: aprender de los beneficiarios previstos

Inès Bakhtaoui; Zoha Shawoo

doi:https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2024.013

A women from the Japo Ande Liggeye association supported by local NGO Symbiose draws water from a cistern to water her garden, Keur Bara, Senegal, 25 July 2018. The association uses the 50 m3 cisterns built by FAO to provide irrigation supplement at the end of the rainy season.

Let’s talk about water: new directions for agricultural water investment

Feature / A new FAO report co-authored by SEI scientists carefully targeted investments in agricultural water can have a major impact on sustainable development.

22 August 2022 / About Finance, Food and agriculture, Water resources and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Abstract image of a pasture in the Brazil Pantanal.

Net carbon dioxide exchange in a hyperseasonal cattle pasture in the northern Pantanal wetland of Brazil

Journal article / Seasonally flooded cattle pastures in the Brazilian Pantanal may be an important regional source of carbon for the atmosphere.

1 August 2022 / About Food and agriculture and Mitigation

View of Amman, Jordan, with smaller buildings and road traffic in the foreground and taller buildings in the background beneath a blue sky.

An assessment of strategies for sustainability priority challenges in Jordan using a water-energy-food Nexus approach

Journal article / This study aimed to support robust decision-making for planning and management of water-energy-food (WEF) nexus systems in the country of Jordan.

7 July 2022 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Mitigation, Participation, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Sustainable Development Goals, Water resources and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

A white house in a background hillside overlooks a nearly-dry lake bed near Friant Dam, outside of Fresno, California.

Hydrological and operations forecasting in the Central Valley of California

Project / SEI researchers are developing a long-range automated water forecasting tool for the California State Water Resources Control Board.

2022 - 2024 / About Cities, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling and Water resources

Kangaroo and joey in distance between scorched trees that survived forest fires in Mallacoota, Victoria, Australia, September 2020

Exploring Australia’s “climate election”

Perspective / The election on 21 May 2022 saw Anthony Albanese become Australia's 31st prime minister, putting climate change back on the agenda.

1 June 2022 / About Climate policy

Great blue heron perched near a California wetland stream, Ballona Wetlands, Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles, California, USA

Institutions and the economic efficiency of managed aquifer recharge as a mitigation strategy against drought impacts on irrigated agriculture in California

Journal article / This study analyses how managed aquifer recharge might affect irrigated agriculture in California's Kings Groundwater Basin during drought.

28 May 2022 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Water resources and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

SEI’s Richard Klein in Climate Home News: Defining vulnerability is a “political question”

Media coverage / In an article in Climate Home News, SEI Senior Research Fellow Richard J. T. Klein said that defining vulnerability is a "political question".

10 March 2022 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk and Mitigation

Climate Change and Decarbonisation: ‘Interdisciplinary Hopping’ to strengthen enablers and tackle barriers to a green transition

Project / The project adopts a whole system approach through ‘discipline hopping’ by diversifying and aligning with the ‘decarbonization agenda’ to address climate change

2022 / About Climate policy and Short lived climate pollutants

House destroyed completely by wildfire, US

SEI’s Zoha Shawoo speaks to Devex about loss and damage financing

Press / SEI's Zoha Shawoo spoke to Devex about five key principles that should underpin a future financing mechanism for loss and damage from an SEI brief on the topic.

11 February 2022 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk and Finance