To meet ambitious climate targets, we must transform our energy systems, how we use natural resources, and how we produce and consume goods and food. We must also adapt to climate impacts. SEI focuses on effective, equitable ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change for a safer climate for all.
Adaptation to climate change is a key area of SEI's research. In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community-based adaptation.
Feature / Mikaelsson discusses the first-of-its-kind assessment, emphasizing the urgency of adapting policies to mitigate climate risks.
SEI’s work sheds light on major ethical issues in climate policy, examines key governance challenges, and offers new analytical frameworks centred on equity.
Other publication / A Comment in Nature Food details the shortfalls in the FAO's food systems roadmap to eliminate hunger without breaching the 1.5°C climate change threshold.
Effective climate action should rest on reliable, relevant information. SEI's recognised expertise in climate science, policy engagement, decision-support tools and science communication make us uniquely well placed for the emerging field of climate services.
Media coverage / SEI Asia's Minh Tran discusses the E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration, emphasizing Indigenous People's rights as a critical component of climate action.
Our research recognizes that disaster risk and development are closely linked: it is development processes that largely determine who and what is exposed to risk as well how much, and how effectively they can respond. SEI works to integrate disaster risk reduction with equitable, sustainable and resilient development.
Feature / Mikaelsson discusses the first-of-its-kind assessment, emphasizing the urgency of adapting policies to mitigate climate risks.
Our research focuses on the effectiveness, efficiency and fairness of the international climate finance regime, but also looks beyond it, at how the global financial system at large either supports or undermines the societal transitions needed to achieve sustainable development.
Feature / A RISKSEC2.0 workshop highlighted innovative local climate change adaptation strategies from four European cities.
How do the institutions, investments and infrastructure that support fossil fuel production lock-in dependence on fossil fuels? What strategies can help societies shift away from such dependence? SEI addresses these questions through timely, policy-relevant research and communications.
Feature / Explore key takeaways from a new study examining development finance flows in the Western Balkans.
Avoiding dangerous climate change requires ambitious action to deeply reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the international, national, and local community levels. SEI informs, supports and advises decision-makers and civil society on possible pathways to an equitable, low-carbon future.
Journal article / Researchers explore three types of development transitions for low- and lower-middle-income countries that transition to low-carbon development.
We assess the impacts of and work to reduce the levels of short-lived climate pollutants – such as soot, methane and ozone – in the atmosphere. These agents affect human health and contribute to global warming.
Journal article / Analysis shows that Colombia's SLCP targets are well within reach thanks to careful planning and capacity building.
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