planning Archives

Air pollution is an effective and underused measure of – and lever for – the Paris Agreement

Perspective / Chris Malley argues that improvements in air quality and public health can offer motivation for increasing climate actions.

5 December 2025 / About Mitigation, Planning and modelling and Pollution

Overhead view of a dam where the water barrage flows into a turquoise body of water

Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning: using LEAP, WEAP and macroeconomic modelling to plan climate-resilient development

SEI brief / WEAP and LEAP tools can help governments align their mitigation and adaptation strategies to maximize their limited climate finance in water and energy systems.

13 November 2025 / About Adaptation, Energy access and Finance

Aerial view of clear-cut forest with felled trees next to freestanding trees

SEI Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Tool

Tool / The AFOLU Tool assists with developing medium- and long-term greenhouse gas non-energy emission scenarios for agriculture, forestry and other land uses.

About Land use, Mitigation, Planning and modelling and Public policy

A silhouette of steaming pipes at a geothermal power plant in Iceland release steam into the dusky gray and pink sky.

Discover how LEAP supports energy, climate and air pollution planning with new Publications Database

Feature / Users can now explore thousands of research publications and planning documents that use LEAP in its new interactive database.

10 November 2025 / About Climate policy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling and Renewables

A crowd of early-morning commuters wearing face masks on their way to work in Bangkok.

Small parks, big lessons: what urban planners can learn from Bangkok’s new green spaces

Feature / Lessons from Bangkok’s pocket parks reveal how design and location shape health, inclusion and the way people use urban green spaces.

31 October 2025 / About Cities, Participation and Wellbeing

Small tree-filled park with a footpath beside a congested flyover packed with cars and motorbikes in Bangkok

Nature within reach: can pocket parks bridge Bangkok’s green gap?

Feature / Bangkok's pocket parks are reshaping access to urban green space, offering new insights into equity, health, and resilience in the city.

15 October 2025 / About Cities, Participation and Wellbeing

Male hands in disposable gloves disassembling an old laptop, disconnecting circuit board for electronic waste collecting in workshop. Boxes of different e-waste are set up around the edge of the worktop.

Aligning digital futures with ecological citizenship for sustainability

Journal article / Technological development should centre environmental values to ensure an equitable digital transformation which benefits human and planetary wellbeing.

2 October 2025 / About Participation, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles

Half-body details of a man sitting in his wheelchair climbing up a curb that is not wheelchair accessible.

Visual storytelling to rethink spatial justice through equity on the move

Project / Using a visual storytelling approach, this project documents everyday mobility practices and infrastructure use, revealing local issues.

2025 - 2026 / About Cities, Land use and Wellbeing

A train departs the Ikeja terminal during the commissioning of the Red Line rail Mass transit in Lagos on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

Enhancing private sector capacity for climate and clean air action in Nigeria

Project / The project boosts public–private collaboration to deliver inclusive climate and clean air transport initiatives in Nigeria.

2025 - 2026 / About Cities, Participation, Short lived climate pollutants and Transport