Finance

A women from the Japo Ande Liggeye association supported by local NGO Symbiose draws water from a cistern to water her garden, Keur Bara, Senegal, 25 July 2018. The association uses the 50 m3 cisterns built by FAO to provide irrigation supplement at the end of the rainy season.

Let’s talk about water: new directions for agricultural water investment

Feature / A new FAO report co-authored by SEI scientists carefully targeted investments in agricultural water can have a major impact on sustainable development.

22 August 2022 / About Finance, Food and agriculture, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Too risky – the role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions

Journal article / The aim of this paper is to further explore the role of the finance sector in sustainability transitions.

15 August 2022 / About Finance

Sarajevo old town from the nearby hills in Bosnia and Herzegovina

SEI researchers on international public funding flows for the environment, climate change and sustainability in BiH

Media coverage / SEI researchers Amar Čausević, Sanjin Avdić, Bernardas Padegimas and Biljana Macura believe that BiH could benefit from diversifying in environmental finance.

19 August 2022 / About Finance

Analysis of international public funding flows for the environment, climate change, and sustainability: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Journal article / This study analyses Bosnia and Herzegovina’s environmental finance to facilitate future sustainable finance prioritization.

16 August 2022 / About Finance

Pang Oung Lake and pine forest in Mae Hong Son, Thailand

SEI at World Water Week 2022

Feature / Join our SEI-hosted sessions at World Water Week from 23 August-1 September both in-person and online to discuss sanitation, biodiversity, climate and the SDGs.

16 August 2022 / About Business, Finance, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals and Water resources

Sun sets over lush forested mountains and a river in Dambo, Zambia

Country ownership in climate finance coordination: a comparative assessment of Kenya and Zambia

Journal article / This study examines how climate finance coordination occurs at the national level in the two developing countries of Kenya and Zambia.

29 July 2022 / About Finance, Geopolitics and Public policy

Rounded building with green leaves growing on the side

Sustainability-linked bonds – their potential to promote issuers’ transition to net-zero emissions and future research directions

Journal article / This article comments on the potential of sustainability-linked bonds to contribute to the decarbonization of the real economy.

31 July 2022 / About Finance and Innovation

Aerial view of financial district in Tallinn, Estonia

Reaching climate neutrality in Estonia: a progress update

SEI report / This study analyses progress made towards reaching climate neutrality in Estonia.

12 July 2022 / About Climate policy, Finance, Food and agriculture, Forests, Fossil fuels, Renewables and Transport

Construction cranes hover over a World Cup stadium-in-progress in Qatar, Middle East

SEI’s Derik Broekhoff casts skeptical view of FIFA World Cup’s carbon neutral claims in How to Save a Planet podcast

Media coverage / The How to Save a Planet podcast consults SEI Senior Scientist Derik Broekhoff about whether the 2022 FIFA World Cup can really call itself climate neutral.

7 July 2022 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Finance, Land use, Mitigation, Renewables and Transport