SDGs Archives

Aerial view of a data centre in Newark, California, in the state's San Francisco Bay area.

Assessing environmental justice impacts of California data centre water use

Project / This project uses geospatial analysis and public engagement to determine how data centre siting in California affects vulnerable communities' water security.

2026 / About Participation, Public policy, Sustainable Development Goals and Water resources

Highway crossing the countryside of Uruguay, view of the windmill fields and logging truck with eucalyptus logs.

Neglected SDGs as gaps in sustainability policy? The case of bioeconomy agendas in South America

Journal article / An assessment of bioeconomy policies in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay reveals neglected SDGs and gaps linked to power relations, interests and policy processes.

31 August 2026 / About Bioeconomy

SDG Synergies for Malawi’s food systems transformation

Feature / SEI collaborated with Sustainable Food Systems Ireland to develop the Malawi Food Systems Transformation Tool using the SDG Synergies platform.

21 August 2026 / About Food and agriculture and Sustainable Development Goals

Large flock of starlings throng in a shifting mass above a wood at dusk in the Netherlands.

The politics of coherence

SEI brief / What have seven years of research revealed about aligning climate action and sustainable development?

19 May 2026 / About Climate policy and Sustainable Development Goals

Indian woman collecting pure water from the well. Collecting and carrying water are women's responsibilities in India. Rajasthani women often walk long distances through the desert to bring back jugs of water that they carry on their heads.

World Water Day: SEI on the intersection of water management and gender equality

Collection / Explore SEI's content on how the global water crisis overlaps with gender issues on this World Water Day.

About Participation, Sanitation, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2026

Past event / The 13th APFSD will take place on 24-27 February 2026 at the United Nations Conference Center (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand.

24 February 2026 / About Cities, Sustainable Development Goals, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

A view of Earth from space with an arm of a satellite to the right, and the green swirls of the eastern lobe of Caspian Sea at centre-right.

Three key trends in geopolitics of sustainability

Perspective / This perspective explores three key trends that became increasingly prominent over the course of the Mistra Geopolitics programme, running 2017-2025.

26 February 2026 / About Climate policy, Geopolitics and Innovation

Aerial view of Monterrey, Mexico, featuring a wide sprawl of buildings in the foreground and mountains on the horizon under a lightly clouded blue sky

Geographic SDG spillovers: how state-level policies influence the metropolitan level in Monterrey

SEI brief / This brief demonstrates the SDG Synergies tool's new geographic spillovers feature by comparing metropolitan and state climate policies in Monterrey, Mexico.

11 February 2026 / About Climate policy, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

A black silhouette of a submarine breaches the water at center of the image, with green and blue northern lights swirling above and reflected in the water surface below.

The Nordic region: a geopolitical and environmental hotspot

Perspective / Geopolitics and sustainability are boiling up together, and one of the world's most calm and stable regions, the Nordics, will be a hotspot.

27 January 2026 / About Climate policy and Geopolitics