Adaptation

Passengers disembarking train onto green grass and mud with green hills and green trees in distances, Hsipaw, Myanmar, March 2018

Tinker, tailor or transform: Gender equality amidst social-ecological change

Journal article / This article explores how different social-ecological narratives implicate gender equality.

13 December 2021 / About Adaptation and Behaviour and choice

COP26 President Alok Sharma at the Exploring Loss and Damage event at COP26

COP26: what it delivered and what’s next

Feature / The COP26 outcomes have sunk in and it is time to take stock of what happened on fossil fuels, loss and damage and other questions and look ahead.

13 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Finance and Mitigation

Lightning through clouds under purple-blue sky with orange sky in distance with more lightning over Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa

Combining service design and discrete choice experiments for intervention design: An application to weather index insurance

Journal article / Learn how a new combination of methods can make development action more effective. This article describes the case of weather insurance in Uganda.

8 September 2021 / About Adaptation and Climate services

Europe’s cross-border trade, human security and financial connections: A climate risk perspective

Journal article / A large-scale literature and data review to explore the potential climate impact transmission pathways between the EU and other world regions.

23 November 2021 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Geopolitics, Public policy and Supply chains

Water level of June Lake loop at Grant Lake in California appears particularly low due to drought conditions and low snowpack

Exploring the Water-Energy Nexus in California via an Integrative Modeling Approach

Journal article / This article discusses how different climate scenarios affect the water-energy nexus in California, employing the WEAP modelling tool.

29 September 2021 / About Adaptation, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Dead vines in vineyard near desert in the Cuyama Valley, California

Q&A: How can SEI tools help California prepare for a “new normal” of drought?

Feature / SEI Senior Scientist Chuck A. Young explains why California saw severe water shortages this year and how better forecasting can help alleviate those challenges.

29 November 2021 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

The voice of freshwater ecosystems in California

SEI podcast / Explore how functional flows and water allocation tools are helping balance ecosystems, agriculture, and cities in California’s fight for freshwater resilience.

24 November 2021 / Water stories / Adaptation, Ecosystems, Planning and modelling and Water resources

Two wind turbines tower over field of red tulips, Lelystad, Netherlands

Industrial decarbonization done right: Identifying success factors for well-functioning permitting processes

SEI brief / In order to ensure a smooth transition away from carbon-intensive industry, an efficient and effective permitting process must help pave the way.

23 November 2021 / About Adaptation, Business, Fossil fuels, Participation and Public policy

Black wooden handrail next to body of water with buildings in the distance on hazy day

Critiquing Latour’s explanation of climate change denial: moving beyond the modernity / Anthropocene binary

Journal article / This article interrogates Bruno Latour's explanation of climate change denial with reference to ontological differences between Modernity and the Anthropocene.

15 November 2021 / About Adaptation and Mitigation