263 results / 6 of 30 pages

A photo of a laptop with a document open on the screen and a plant in the background on the table.

Circular procurement lessons to be included in Estonian strategies

Feature / Estonia has developed three strategic documents, incorporating expertise from SEI Tallinn and the CircPro project, to advance circular procurement principles.

8 May 2023 / About Business, Innovation, Supply Chains and Sustainable lifestyles

Aerial view of forestry machinery logging trees

“Everyone’s chasing removals”: SEI’s Derik Broekhoff comments on emissions reduction vs. removals in the carbon market

Media coverage / Senior Scientist Derik Broekhoff spoke to the climate news outlet Heatmap on the tension between carbon removals and emissions in the voluntary carbon market.

17 April 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Mitigation, Pollution and Public policy

Wide shot of farmer arranging large cardboard boxes on a the back of a pick-up truck.

Taking responsibility for supply chain impacts: who, why and how?

Other publication / The authors of this discussion paper discussed how to fairly allocate responsibility for production level impacts across supply chains.

17 April 2023 / About Food and agriculture, Public policy, Supply Chains and Sustainable lifestyles

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/beekeeping-beehives-royalty-free-image/479998850?adppopup=true

Setting priorities through “systems thinking” at the SDG Summit

Perspective / A systems-thinking approach is required to figure out where to prioritize action to accelerate progress across the Sustainable Development Goals.

14 April 2023 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Land use, Public policy, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable lifestyles and Water resources

Spatio-temporal analysis of game harvests in Sweden

Journal article / The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of human hunting and carnivore predation pressure on game harvests.

12 April 2023 / About Food and agriculture

Biogas plant in agricultural landscape, Czech Republic.

SEI’s Måns Nilsson: EU policymakers exclude transport options with societal benefits

Media coverage / "With the kind of regulatory approach that the EU is taking, they are removing possibilities to use biogas," said SEI's Måns Nilsson in a recent debate.

5 April 2023 / About Fossil fuels, Pollution and Wellbeing

Young pepper plants grow in a dry, cracked field at a farm in Meki Batu, Ethiopia

New WEAP feature calculates water stress at the local level

Feature / A new feature of SEI’s WEAP tool allows users to gain insight on water stress at the local scale, enabling accurate SDG reporting and regional water planning.

23 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Cities, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Water resources and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

A man carries a basket of freshly picked coffee beans by a greenhouse on a rural farm in Colombia.

UN Regional Forums must become a launchpad for localizing SDG actions

Perspective / UN Regional Forums on Sustainable Development in 2023 have been sending a clear message: time is short; progress is less than expected.

22 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Land use, Public policy, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable lifestyles and Water resources

Two women cook around a wood-burning fire in South Africa.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

13 March 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Forests, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Design and development by Soapbox.

sustainable consumption