Climate services

Our children warned us but we didn’t listen

Media coverage / The pandemic is a wake-up call to address climate change once and for all.

A breakthrough in carbon footprinting for agricultural commodities

Feature / A new approach to life cycle analysis can calculate precise footprints for thousands of individual commodity trade flows from source locality to export market.

Communication drives change in the edible insect sector

Feature / SEI led on communication and engagement in the AgriFoSe2030 programme, leading to better policy and practice around edible insect farming in Africa.

Webinar: LEAP2020 – a major new version of SEI’s platform for low emission development planning

Past event / Demonstration of our flagship decision support system for integrated planning of energy, climate change mitigation and air pollution abatement.

Combining indigenous knowledge and modern science

Feature / SEI’s work in Bali brought together farmers’ traditional knowledge and technical meteorological information for more effective climate adaptation.

Collaboration to bridge the gap between climate science and adaptation policy

Feature / The SEI Initiative on Climate Services generated new insights about co-design and co-production proocesses to integrate climate science into adaptation policy.

Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil’s soy exports

Journal article / An enhanced approach to life cycle assessments of globally traded agricultural commodities that takes into account the specifics of individual supply chains.

Online guidance to collaboratively address climate change adaptation

Tool / Tandem guidance is an interactive, online tool to help scientists and decision-makers collaborate to improve climate change adaptation planning and policies.

Co-designing climate services to support adaptation to natural hazards: two case studies from Sweden

SEI brief / Two Swedish case studies offer insights about how to improve "co-design" processes to support climate change adaptation planning for natural hazards.