Around 2.4 billion people use biomass fuels - wood, charcoal and animal dung - for their domestic energy needs. These are typically burned in inefficient stoves or on open fires, with serious consequences for health and the environment. SEI identifies and designs actions to help households transition to cleaner technologies and energy sources.
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Media coverage / How can the world fulfill Europe's liquefied natural gas needs without Russia? The rest of the developed world must lower demand, SEI's Peter Erickson says.
Feature / Governments need to allocate funds for culture in a way that helps the sector become more sustainable.
Feature / Looking for ideas for green New Year's resolutions? Follow these six tips from SEI researchers to have a more sustainable year in 2022.
Feature / SEI researchers offer advice on how to have a more environmentally friendly Christmas this year.
Journal article / The effectiveness systematic review assesses the overall impact of residential energy efficiency, including installations and behaviour interventions.
Feature / Explore your city or community's resource recovery potential of urban organic waste streams on the new web-based platform for SEI’s newly launched REVAMP tool.
SEI report / This SEI report outlines issues that stakeholders in water, sanitation and energy services believe are holding back uptake of promising gridless technologies.
Project / Study generated critical knowledge to inform upscaling of investments in small-scale organic waste processing ventures in low- and-middle income countries
Feature / Almost one-third of the world’s population has no access to clean energy for cooking. SEI scientists hope to help tackle the problem with better policies.
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