Fossil fuels

A large open-pit coal mine with terraced slopes, mining equipment, and a dirt road under a blue sky.

Institutional capacities for a just transition in coal regions: the case of La Jagua de Ibirico, Colombia

SEI report / This report highlights the collapse of the coal industry in La Jagua de Ibirico, Colombia, with lessons on how other cities can better plan for coal's demise.

25 February 2025 / About Fossil fuels, Participation, Public policy and Supply chains

Brown, white and spotted black-and-white cows, each marked with numbers, are confined to metal pens at a cattle ranch in Colombia.

Replacing one polluting sector with another? The perils of shifting from coal to livestock in Cesar, Colombia

Perspective / As Colombia seeks a shift away from fossil fuel extraction, SEI experts warn against replacing one polluting sector with another.

12 February 2025 / About Business, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels and Public policy

Sparks fly as a worker takes a sample of molten iron flowing from a blast furnace at the Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe steelworks on November 09, 2021 in Duisburg, Germany.

Competition and climate policy in the steel transition: comparing costs and subsidies in the US and the EU

Journal article / This study compares subsidies and renewable energy costs in low-carbon steelmaking in the US and EU, highlighting the trade-off between competition and climate.

11 February 2025 / About Fossil fuels, Innovation and Renewables

Elevated landscape with a power station in the foreground and the city of Ulaanbaatar behind. Snow-capped mountains sit under a blue sky in the background, behind a haze of smoke.

Modelling long-term greenhouse gas mitigation pathways for Mongolia

Journal article / Implementation of 49 mitigation measures could reduce Mongolia's greenhouse gas emissions by 40% in 2050 compared to the baseline.

6 February 2025 / About Fossil fuels and Pollution

A supercharged geopolitical supercycle

Perspective / This is one of three SEI Currents for 2025, examining the consequences of seismic geopolitical shifts on climate action, military spending, migration and more.

21 January 2025 / About Business, Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics and Public policy

With the benefit of hindsight: Currents 2024

Feature / As SEI prepares to launch Currents 2025 on 21 January, it is time to take stock. Did we detect the way the winds were blowing when we looked ahead to 2024?

8 January 2025 / About Climate policy, Finance, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Land use, Mitigation and Participation

This image depicts two engineers walking along a path beside a farm of wind turbines in Thailand.

ASEAN Renewable Energy Long-Term Roadmap

Project / The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Renewable Energy Long-term Roadmap is a blueprint for increasing the implementation of renewable energy.

2025 / About Climate policy, Fossil fuels and Renewables

Street scene in an African town with people walking and riding motorcycles, and a woman carrying goods on her head and a baby on her back.

Sustainable transport

One-SEI program / SEI advances fair, inclusive, and low-emission transport solutions worldwide, bridging global insights with local action for a just mobility transition.

2025 - 2026 / About Energy access, Fossil fuels, Planning and modelling and Transport

aerial view of an orange-and-green ship tanker on a bright blue sea, with black shadow projected to the top of the image of towers and pipes.

How do governments discursively reconcile plans for expanding oil and gas production with global climate goals? The cases of Colombia and Nigeria

Journal article / This research explores how governments in Nigeria and Colombia use discursive strategies to reconcile hydrocarbon expansion plans with climate commitments.

9 December 2024 / About Fossil fuels