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.

NATTOURS – sustainable urban nature routes using new IT solutions

Project / The NATTOURS project aims at improving public recognition of nature tourism possibilities in Tallinn and Helsinki.

2016 - 2018 / About Cities and Ecosystems

Planning a new urban research programme for SEI Africa: A review of current and potential avenues of research on sustainable urbanization

SEI working paper

14 December 2015 / About Cities

Nordic Green to Scale

Project / Nordic Green to Scale investigates how existing low-carbon solutions can contribute to tackling the global climate crisis.

2015 - 2019 / About Cities and Household energy

Benchmarking approaches and methods in the field of urban waste management

Journal article

28 September 2015 / About Cities and Pollution

The OPAL bugs count survey: exploring the effects of urbanisation and habitat characteristics using citizen science

Journal article

5 May 2015 / About Cities and Ecosystems

aerial shot of Smog hangs over Mexico City

SEI Initiative on Low Emission Development Pathways

Initiative / This initiative focuses on integrated analysis and planning for the mitigation of air pollution and greenhouse gases, including short-lived climate pollutants.

2015 - 2019 / About Cities, Climate policy, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Pollution, Renewables, Short lived climate pollutants and Transport