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How do the institutions, investments and infrastructure that support fossil fuel production lock-in dependence on fossil fuels? What strategies can help societies shift away from such dependence? SEI addresses these questions through timely, policy-relevant research and communications.
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Perspective / SEI's Georgia Piggot and Peter Erickson explain "carbon lock-in" and how countries can avoid — and undo — this addiction to fossil fuels.
Perspective / A narrow focus on removal-based offsets -- such as those for forestry projects -- can be counterproductive to meeting climate goals.
SEI brief / This brief synthesizes the findings from SEI's work on the inequality that exists in energy systems, on inclusive energy planning and on just transitions.
SEI report / Renewable energy technologies can lead to wider social equity, but a “just transition” cannot be achieved without inclusive institutional arrangements.
Perspective / How do we make the pandemic recovery sustainable, just and resilient?
Feature / SEI's Peter Erickson joined a panel of experts to discuss the importance of ensuring equity when transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Journal article / This article explores an obstacle to supply-side policy: the national government's narrative that fossil fuel extraction is necessary for development.
Journal article / This article in Nature explains how subsidies affect fossil fuel investment and why they deserve greater attention in global modelling analyses.
Feature / A new Nature article lays out the economic, political and symbolic effects of subsidies – and why their removal is important to a low-carbon transition.
