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Energy access

A clean, affordable, reliable supply of energy for basic needs is widely seen as a necessary for lifting people out of poverty and improving well-being. SEI examines how energy needs for human and economic development can be met in a way that is compatible with long-term sustainable development.

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Initiatives

Governing bioeconomy pathways

Rohingya Refugees Mark Two Years Since The Crisis

Gridless solutions

Projects and tools

Group of tree trunks cut and stacked in the forest with sun rays

Deployment of biobased value chains

All projects and tools

How finance works towards – or against – sustainable development

SEI’s work in the Initiative on Global Finance looked at how the global financial system at large either supports or undermines the sustainability transition.

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Governance
Climate
Energy
27 March 2020

What drives human behaviour when it comes to development solutions?

Explore the results from our Initiative on Behaviour and Choice, including a toolkit for behaviour-based development interventions and examples of its use.

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A group of people standing on an open roof, inspecting stoves

What makes an ‘improved’ stove worth using? Insights from India

Perspective
Energy
Air
Health
Gender
15 August 2016
India

Cookstove

Can health campaigns spur adoption of clean cookstoves?

Logs

Spatiotemporal modeling of fuelwood environmental impacts: Towards improved accounting for non-renewable biomass

Women carrying firewood

Women are central to Africa’s energy transformation

Perspective
Energy
Gender
8 March 2016

A small business in Kuria East sub-county uses solar power to provide customers with hair cutting, phone charging and torch charging services. All photos by Oliver Johnson.

Can county-level energy planning give the people a stronger voice? Lessons from Kenya

Feature
Energy
Governance
18 February 2016
Kenya

A shed out in the country side with a solar panel in front of it

County energy planning in Kenya: local participation and local solutions in Migori County

A women cooking on small stove on floor

Behavioural drivers for uptake of modern cookstoves, Kiambu County, Kenya

Steel

Navigating the transition to sustainable bioenergy in Sweden and Brazil: Lessons learned in a European and International context

Journal articles
Energy
16 January 2016
Sweden
EU
Brazil

Woman stirring in pot

Bringing clean, safe, affordable cooking energy to households across Africa: an agenda for action

Woman sitting by cookingstove

From Theory to Practice of Change: Lessons from SNV’s Improved Cookstoves and Fuel Projects in Cambodia, Kenya, Nepal and Rwanda

Children walking on a sand road in African village

Identifying behavioural drivers of cookstove use: a household study in Kibera, Nairobi

A man charcoaling wood

Investigating ecology and poverty dimensions of biomass use and energy access: methodological issues

People buying kerosene on sale

Ethanol: towards a viable alternative for domestic cooking in Ethiopia

Hot air balloons

Biomass Resources, Energy Access and Poverty Reduction

Kenya

Can carbon finance transform household energy markets? A review of cookstove projects and programs in Kenya