sustainable consumption Archives

The Klamath River empties into the Upper Klamath Lake near Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Project / SEI is building a water allocation and hydrology model in the Upper Klamath River basin.

2022 / About Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

Asia in Focus: Climate Change and the Business and Human Rights Agenda

Past event / SEI Asia Doctoral Fellow and Consultant Sara K. Phillips discusses the connections between the environment, business and human rights in a UNDP webcast series.

08 September 2022 / About Business, Climate policy, Forests and Public policy

Man in white hard hat looks up at a row of wind turbines set against a blue sky filled with thin white clouds

Q&A with SEI’s Peter Erickson: “There is something for everyone to like” in new US climate law

Feature / SEI Affiliated Researcher Pete Erickson lays out the benefits and drawbacks – mostly benefits – in the recently passed transformative climate law in the US.

8 September 2022 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Fossil fuels, Innovation, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Renewables, Supply chains and Transport

A man standing in the front of the picture, wearing a hat and a backpack, looking through binoculars. The background is colored orange, sun simmering through warm clouds. Under the orange sky stand several shilouettes of mountains, each one increasingly lighter and soaked in sun.

Project VINCI helps foster low-carbon tourism

Press release / A Virtual and Augmented Reality Trainers Toolbox helps foster low-carbon tourism with the participation of SEI Tallinn.

31 August 2022 / About Business, Pollution, Sustainable lifestyles and Transport

Woman showing her hands covered in the natural colour obtained from the barks of the community forest.

“I’m not JUST a farmer”

Feature / Meet the Thai “agripreneurs” who are adapting to their local context by diversifying rural livelihoods.

25 August 2022 / About Adaptation, Behaviour and choice, Cities, Food and agriculture, Land use and Sustainable Development Goals

A shopping street in Sweden with Swedish flag in the foreground

How will Sweden’s ambitious climate targets change how we eat and get around?

SEI working paper / Sweden aims to shift to fossil fuel free transport and food sectors by 2045. This paper discusses the gaps in these plans and how can they be addressed.

8 July 2022 / About Climate policy, Food and agriculture and Transport

Center-pivot irrigation system hovers over dry agricultural field, Southern California, US

Developing a regional agricultural nonpoint salinity pollution management framework: application to the San Joaquin River, California

Other publication / This paper simulates policy and climate scenarios in California to inform salinity pollution management while keeping farmers in business.

16 June 2022 / About Adaptation, Business, Food and agriculture, Innovation, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

A white house in a background hillside overlooks a nearly-dry lake bed near Friant Dam, outside of Fresno, California.

Hydrological and operations forecasting in the Central Valley of California

Project / SEI researchers developed a long-range automated water forecasting tool for the California State Water Resources Control Board.

2022 - 2026 / About Cities, Disaster risk, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling and Water resources

Clothing Swap Day!

Past event / Listen to an exciting lecture on sustainable consumption by SEI's Head of Division - Societies, Climate and Policy Support Fedra Vanhuyse on Clothing Swap Day.

12 June 2022 / About Sustainable lifestyles