Climate services

Negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn in 2014

6 key issues for the UN climate change conference

Feature / As climate negotiators met, SEI researchers put their heads together to identify some of the key issues for the COP23.

3 November 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Fossil fuels, Mitigation and Short lived climate pollutants

Global map of weADAPT case studies in 2017

weADAPT: celebrating 10 years at the forefront of climate change adaptation research and practice

Feature / weADAPT, SEI’s global platform and network for climate change adaptation issues, is marking its 10th anniversary in 2017.

25 October 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Disaster risk, Mitigation and Short lived climate pollutants

SENSES

Project / SENSES – Climate Change ScENario SErviceS – is developing a toolkit to connect new climate community scenarios with stakeholders.

2017 - 2020 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services and Mitigation

A duck swimming in water filled with algae

CoCliME

Project / CoCliME – co-development of climate services for adaptation to changing marine ecosystems – will develop climate services for marine systems in Europe.

2017 - 2020 / About Climate services

Infographic: The Disaster Management Cycle, a circle of information that flows from section to section (not described here in full). The inner circle describes four phases: preparedness, response, recovery and prevention. The outer circle includes questions like, What was the impact of an event? Where are the hotspots? What are potential solutions?

Prevent climate risk in coasts, before it’s too late

Perspective / Viewing disaster risk reduction as an integrated chain of actions could help cities mitigate and adapt to climate risk and prevent our coasts from washing away.

7 July 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate services and Disaster risk

Towards extended shared socioeconomic pathways: a combined participatory bottom-up and top-down methodology with results from the Barents region

Journal article / Presents a participatory method for generating locally relevant scenarios of future change nested in global climate. With results from the Barents region.

14 June 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate services, Disaster risk and Participation

An exclamation and a question mark made of jigsaw puzzle pieces. These are mainly colored in shades of blue and brown with a gray cardboard back.

Enhancing learning, communication and knowledge-sharing by design

Perspective / Taxonomy not only helps us sort through information – it also helps us make sense of complex topics and grapple with differences in our understanding.

29 March 2017 / About Adaptation and Climate services

SEI at the 5th International Conference on Climate Services

Feature / More than 250 people will meet in Cape Town to explore how capacity-building and education can improve the use of climate information in decision-making.

24 February 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Mitigation and Public policy

Renewable energy mini-grids: an alternative approach to energy access in southern Africa

SEI brief / Renewable energy mini-grids might provide an alternative and additional solution to energy pressures in countries of the Southern Africa Development Community

10 December 2016 / About Climate services, Energy access and Renewables