Climate policy

6 key issues for the UN climate change conference

Feature / As climate negotiators met, SEI researchers put their heads together to identify some of the key issues for the COP23.

Fairly sharing 1.5: national fair shares of a 1.5°C-compliant global mitigation effort

Journal article / This study examines national mitigation pledges presented at the 2015 Paris climate summit, relative to equity benchmarks and 1.5 °C-compliant global mitigation

weADAPT: celebrating 10 years at the forefront of climate change adaptation research and practice

Feature / weADAPT, SEI’s global platform and network for climate change adaptation issues, is marking its 10th anniversary in 2017.

How to design border carbon adjustments that work for the climate

SEI brief / Border Carbon Adjustments are instruments that address uneven climate efforts by including imports in, or exempting exports from, a carbon constraint.

Tackling fossil fuel subsidies through trade agreements

SEI brief / Reform of fossil fuel subsidies is attracting attention as a way to meet the objectives for the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Ratcheting up ambition: COP23 sets the stage for the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue

Feature / SEI researchers examine one of the key issues, the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue, a stock-taking of the Paris Agreement, ahead of COP23.

Decentralising climate finance: insights from Kenya and Ethiopia

Other publication / Different mechanisms for delivering climate finance at the local level, with a focus on case studies in Ethiopia and Kenya

Grey Zones

Project / Grey Zones facilitates an exchange of information and experience between climate change researchers and journalists in Sweden.

Capacity building for climate change: lessons from other regimes

Other publication / Not all countries have equal capacity to adapt. It is critical that the Paris Agreement’s capacity building provisions are implemented successfully