Innovation

Breakdown or breakthrough: currents and turning points in 2022

Perspective / SEI Currents 2022 taps the institute’s expertise and insights from eight offices on four continents to examine trends emerging in 2022 and beyond.

Leveraging technology at a wartime pace without incurring wartime casualties

Perspective / Technology is a necessary lever to achieve net-zero goals by mid-century, but is not sufficient on its own. Policymakers must pick up the pace on innovation.

SEI Currents 2022

Feature / The world is in transition. What trends are emerging in 2022?

Islands as spaces of innovation for marine biodiversity

Perspective / Read key insights on how innovating in Islands offers an opportunity to think beyond the established ways of organizing society and building cities.

SEI–SU seminar on Innovation and Sustainable Development

Past event / Welcome to this hybrid event on innovation and sustainable development organized by SEI and Stockholm University.

Recovering resources from organic waste streams with the REVAMP tool

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.

Circular cities: an evidence map of research between 2010 and 2020

Journal article / An evidence map describes the literature published in the past decade on cities' circular economy strategies and focus.

Perceived unknowns about gridless water, sanitation and energy services

SEI report / This SEI report outlines issues that stakeholders in water, sanitation and energy services believe are holding back uptake of promising gridless technologies.

From “hard-to-abate” to net-zero: Policy priorities for decarbonizing steel by 2050

SEI brief / Based on three major new studies on the topic of steel decarbonization, this brief explores how the steel sector could achieve net zero by 2050 through policy.