Climate policy

Distributional impacts of mining transitions: learning from the past

SEI working paper / This paper examines the gender- and age-related impacts of past mine closures, in order to inform current and future energy transitions.

Europe’s recovery plans must pass five sustainability tests

Feature / COVID-19 recovery plans must "build back better" and pass five tests, argue European sustainability think tanks.

Increasing ambitions of NDCs is hardly useful unless they also become more effective

Perspective / To go beyond ambition and enhance the effectiveness of NDCs, countries need to improve the transparency, coherence and implementability of NDCs.

Three ways of making NDCs more effective

Feature / A special issue of Climate Policy edited by SEI’s Richard Klein and Pieter Pauw identified three dimensions of making NDCs more effective.

Breaking the habit of fossil-fueled development

Perspective / SEI's Georgia Piggot and Peter Erickson explain "carbon lock-in" and how countries can avoid — and undo — this addiction to fossil fuels.

Surveying perceptions and practices of high-end climate change

Journal article / Read the results of a survey of the adaptation community about their views on high-end climate change.

Should carbon offsets only include removing CO2 from the atmosphere?

Perspective / A narrow focus on removal-based offsets -- such as those for forestry projects -- can be counterproductive to meeting climate goals.

Ensuring just and equitable energy transitions

SEI brief / This brief synthesizes the findings from SEI's work on the inequality that exists in energy systems, on inclusive energy planning and on just transitions.

Assessing the gender and social equity dimensions of energy transitions

SEI report / Renewable energy technologies can lead to wider social equity, but a “just transition” cannot be achieved without inclusive institutional arrangements.