Cities

More than 65% of the world's population are projected to live in urban areas by 2050, with major implications resource use, energy, water and sanitation, and health and well-being. At the same time urbanization can bring benefits, especially efficiency gains. SEI examines these challenges in the round to advance sustainable urbanization.

Learning Labs: creating collaborative ways to address climate change in African cities

Feature / Learning Labs, created by SEI and partners for southern African cities, underscore the importance of collaboration to address urgent climate adaptation needs.

14 January 2020 / About Adaptation, Cities and Climate services

Ten ways to support climate change adaptation planning and decision-making

SEI brief / Here are 10 ways that climate service providers can support climate change adaptation planning and decision-making.

8 January 2020 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate services and Disaster risk

Green office building next to traditional apartment block.

Urban Circularity Assessment Framework

Project / This project provides cities with an adjustable framework to assess their level and potential for circularity.

2020 - 2022 / About Cities

Comparing health, stress, wellbeing and greenspace across six cities in three continents

Journal article / This exploratory study applies a standardized analysis framework to health and wellbeing metrics of cities in the UK, Sweden, Estonia, Kenya and Thailand.

18 December 2019 / About Cities and Wellbeing

Particulate matter pollution in an informal settlement in Nairobi: Using citizen science to make the invisible visible

Journal article / Using citizen science approaches to explore personal exposure to air pollution of selected informal settlement dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya.

10 December 2019 / About Cities and Pollution

Report release: Nordic Green to Scale for Cities and Communities

Past event / Nordic countries offer proven and scalable solutions for cutting emissions globally. What would the impacts be if more cities joined in?

27 November 2019 / About Cities and Household energy

The Kenya Sanitation Conference showed we know what to do – now it’s time to do it

Perspective / Sanitation discourse in Kenya has made strides towards inclusiveness, realism and sustainability, but what happens after will decide the event's true success.

19 November 2019 / About Cities and Sanitation

Climate solutions in Nordic cities can cut emissions and save money

Press release / SEI participated in the release of a report highlighting the contribution of innovative green solutions in Nordic cities to the reduction of carbon emissions.

18 November 2019 / About Cities and Household energy

Careless development models in wake of Yolanda

Media coverage / As Tacloban city struggles six years after being devastated by Typhoon Yolanda, a call to transform current development and recovery models.

9 November 2019 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Innovation, Participation and Public policy