vulnerability Archives

Join SEI’s Loss and Damage focus group to provide input on new global fund

Feature / COP27 ended with a decision to establish a Loss and Damage fund for countries most-affected by climate change. SEI and ICCCAD researchers want your insight.

30 January 2023 / About Disaster Risk, Ecosystems, Finance, Food and agriculture, Forests, Geopolitics, Mitigation, Participation, Public policy and Wellbeing

Brown sand pours through an hourglass with a light wooden outer frame in front of a white-painted brick wall

SEI’s Sivan Kartha provides peek behind the dial of the Doomsday Clock

Media coverage / The Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight than ever. SEI Senior Scientist Sivan Kartha, who leads the Clock's climate panel, offers reasons why.

24 January 2023 / About Disaster Risk and Geopolitics

SEI Currents 2023 – which trends will shape 2023?

Media advisory / SEI Currents 2023 taps the institute’s expertise and insights from SEI centres across five continents to identify trends emerging in 2023 and beyond.

3 January 2023 / About Business, Climate policy, Finance, Innovation and Sustainable Development Goals

Regions4Climate

Project / Regions4Climate will implement innovative actions to enhance climate resilience within the real-life environments of partner regions.

2023 - 2027 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Participation and Sustainable Development Goals

Snow-covered natural gas pipelines stretch across a white snowscape.

Tackling the energy crisis: six lessons from past crises

Perspective / Russia has caused an energy crisis for Europe. SEI Research Associate Jindan Gong says this opens the door to a green energy transition across the EU.

21 December 2022 / About Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Household energy, Mitigation, Public policy, Renewables and Sustainable lifestyles

SEI Currents 2023

Feature / Watch our Currents 2023 event from 11 January and read the perspectives by our researchers on topics to follow in the coming year.

20 December 2022 / About Adaptation, Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Finance, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Innovation, Mitigation, Participation, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles

Autonomous driving bus, Weltenburg Monastery, Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany, 7 August 2021

Technological disruption: Will artificial intelligence solve global problems or widen equity gaps?

Perspective / This perspective explores the issue of artificial intelligence as a tool to address climate change and as a force with the potential to affect social equity.

20 December 2022 / About Geopolitics, Innovation and Participation

More than 1 million march in Protest against controversial extradition bill, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, 9 June 2019

The democracy deficit: What does a global decline in freedom portend for climate and sustainability agendas?

Perspective / This perspective examines the decline of democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, and the implications for the climate change and sustainability agendas.

20 December 2022 / About Climate policy, Geopolitics, Mitigation, Participation, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

A bench and play equipment are inundated with water amid flooding at a public park in Pakistan.

Op-ed: What’s next for Loss and Damage? Three principles for helping those most in need

Media coverage / COP27's establishment of a Loss and Damage fund is a crucial victory. Now it must prioritize the most vulnerable communities, SEI researchers say.

13 December 2022 / About Geopolitics and Public policy