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

What makes a good climate service? Learning from practice

Perspective / From texts about pests to climate podcasts for women farmers, panellists at a COP22 event co-hosted by SEI offered many useful examples and insights.

6 December 2016 / About Climate services and Food and agriculture

The Maersk Developer drills an exploratory well into Statoil’s Martin prospect in the Gulf of Mexico.

Making future U.S. offshore oil leasing more consistent with climate goals

SEI brief

1 December 2016 / About Climate services, Finance, Fossil fuels and Public policy

Private finance for climate-change adaptation: Challenges and opportunities for Kenya

Other publication / Private finance for climate-change adaptation: Challenges and opportunities for Kenya

28 November 2016 / About Adaptation, Climate services, Finance and Public policy