ecosystem services Archives

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

Large piles of rusted scrap metal sit in an industrial recycling yard, with a worker walking between them and a warehouse and mountains visible in the background.

Q&A: Financing the institutions behind sound chemicals and waste management

Feature / Annika Hilgert explores how sustainable domestic financing can strengthen institutions and reduce harms from chemicals and waste.

19 February 2026 / About Finance, Pollution, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

Workers harvesting tea leaves in a lush green field

Climate and ecosystem service benefits of forests and trees for agriculture

Other publication / This report underscores how forests and trees can strengthen agrifood systems by supporting climate regulation, soil health and resilient production.

1 December 2025 / About Climate policy, Food and agriculture and Forests

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

Close up: a red grouse peeps their head up over dense, pink-flowering heather.

Ecological implications of changes in vegetation elemental composition under different heather (Calluna vulgaris) managements on British blanket bog

Journal article / Active moorland management can enhance nutrients in heather and cotton-grass, with benefits for birds, grazing animals and carbon uptake.

7 November 2025 / About Ecosystems

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

Person in red jacket standing near a glacial lake with reddish water, surrounded by rocky terrain and melting glacier in the Peruvian Andes.

SEI launches seven programs to tackle urgent global challenges

Feature / The “One-SEI” programs foster cross-centre research and partnerships to accelerate action on climate, nature and wellbeing.

1 July 2025 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Finance, Food and agriculture, Innovation, Mitigation, Participation, Planning and modelling and Water resources

Southeast Asia Environmental Systems Workshop 2025

Past event / SEI Asia will take part in Southeast Asia Environmental Systems Workshop 2025 from 17–20 June 2025.

17 June 2025 / About Ecosystems

A forest of deciduous trees frames a rough path. In the distance are two walkers with their backs to the camera. One is dressed in a red coat, the other in blue.

Quantifying the unseen benefits: an innovative economic valuation of the social and cultural values of trees, woods, and forests at risk

Journal article / Economic valuations of trees must take account of their social and cultural values if they are to accurately reflect the financial benefits of treescapes.

31 October 2024 / About Forests