Climate policy

Webinar: How to make the Covid-19 recovery sustainable, just and resilient

Past event / What opportunities for transformation lie in the disruption wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic and how can we seize them? Decision makers and experts discuss.

Disaster and climate-induced migration and displacement

SEI brief / Climate change is expected to increase disaster displacement and influence migration dynamics as the impacts of environmental hazards become more intense.

Distributional impacts of mining transitions: learning from the past

SEI working paper / This paper examines the gender- and age-related impacts of past mine closures, in order to inform current and future energy transitions.

Europe’s recovery plans must pass five sustainability tests

Feature / COVID-19 recovery plans must "build back better" and pass five tests, argue European sustainability think tanks.

Increasing ambitions of NDCs is hardly useful unless they also become more effective

Perspective / To go beyond ambition and enhance the effectiveness of NDCs, countries need to improve the transparency, coherence and implementability of NDCs.

Three ways of making NDCs more effective

Feature / A special issue of Climate Policy edited by SEI’s Richard Klein and Pieter Pauw identified three dimensions of making NDCs more effective.

Breaking the habit of fossil-fueled development

Perspective / SEI's Georgia Piggot and Peter Erickson explain "carbon lock-in" and how countries can avoid — and undo — this addiction to fossil fuels.

Surveying perceptions and practices of high-end climate change

Journal article / Read the results of a survey of the adaptation community about their views on high-end climate change.

Should carbon offsets only include removing CO2 from the atmosphere?

Perspective / A narrow focus on removal-based offsets -- such as those for forestry projects -- can be counterproductive to meeting climate goals.