Climate policy

One size doesn’t fit all: How to design a user-friendly climate insurance

Perspective / Weather-index insurance can shield smallholder farmers from climate-related disasters, but it's mainly the wealthy who can afford it. How to change that?

4 ways to harness data to stop deforestation in supply chains

Perspective / The Data Revolution can radically alter how we combat tropical deforestation – but it's not just about generating new data.

With no carbon market rules emerging from COP25, will aviation and voluntary offsets take the lead?

Perspective / SEI's Derik Broekhoff explains how international aviation and the voluntary carbon market can enable climate action.

Leadership Group for Industry Transition

Project / The Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) aims to enable the transition of heavy industry towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

SEI Initiative on Carbon Lock-In

Initiative / The Carbon Lock-In Initiative seeks to uncover and address the barriers that uphold the fossil fuel-based economy.

The future direction of design within research

Past event / Welcome to an interactive seminar to discuss the future direction of design within the research for sustainable development.

‘The Paris Agreement is also about managing the risks of living in a warming world’

Media coverage / Kevin M. Adams, Research Fellow at SEI was interviewed by the news agency Associated Press at COP 25 in Madrid.

Why an equitable approach is the only practical way to address the climate crisis

Perspective / SEI Senior Scientist Sivan Kartha recently joined a conversation with youth climate activists Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer. These are his remarks.

The UN climate talks can tackle fossil fuels head-on: here’s how

Perspective / The UN process has largely ignored the production of fossil fuels. That can, and must, change.