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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.

Territorial and consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions assessments: implications for spatial planning policies

Journal article / This study introduces four case studies that were conducted using the two quantification approaches to assess the climate impacts of local planning policies.

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.

Incorporating Climate into Macroeconomic Modeling

Past event / Join SEI's Eric Kemp-Benedict at the US National Academies two-day hybrid workshop on the intersections between climate and macroeconomic modeling.

Carbon Brief post on SEI study: Nearly half of recent climate pledges plan to keep extracting fossil fuels

Media coverage / A new SEI study shows while fossil fuels are increasingly mentioned climate plans, those who will continue to extract far outnumber those who will wind it down.

Connecting the dots: mapping references to fossil fuel production in national plans under the UNFCCC for the 2023 Global Stocktake

SEI report / Amid growing momentum to link fossil fuel production and climate goals, transparency on countries’ alignment with Paris goals is crucial to assessing progress.

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.

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.

Just resilience for Europe: towards measuring justice in climate change adaptation

Other publication / This technical paper contributes to making just resilience operational by stocktaking and structuring the knowledge on just resilience in climate adaptation.