Shaping political and social change, empowering people and communities, improving policy and building effective institutions are central to a sustainable future. SEI works toward more functional, transparent and representative systems of governance.
Our research focuses on the effectiveness, efficiency and fairness of the international climate finance regime, but also looks beyond it, at how the global financial system at large either supports or undermines the societal transitions needed to achieve sustainable development.
Journal article / Systematic review of European marine multifunctionality through a policy-mix lens.
SEI geopolitics research examines the dynamic interactions between politics, natural resources, human security and global environmental change.
Feature / Trase identifies the leading coffee trading companies and estimate where traders and markets source coffee from within key coffee-producing countries.
Technological innovation can play a central role in transforming society for sustainable outcomes. SEI examines the conditions that enable new, green technologies to flourish.
SEI brief / This brief is based on a report on implementation of rights of rivers in practice, with lessons from the Turag and Atrato rivers cases.
Technological innovation can play a central role in transforming society for sustainable outcomes. SEI examines the conditions that enable new, green technologies to flourish.
Other publication / This research highlights the need to treat social viability as a core part of renewable energy planning, investment and implementation.
What laws, regulations and actions support sustainable outcomes? SEI is concerned with identifying policies and processes that lead to efficient and effective solutions.
Event on 04 September in Bangkok / SEI Asia's Cynthia McDougall will join an ESCAP panel on climate change, care work and futures at the APFN conference in Bangkok.
The Sustainable Development Goals reflect a global consensus that economic, social and environmental aspects of development are inextricably linked and mutually dependent. SEI offers scientific support to the conceptualization, implementation and follow-up of the goals.
Feature / SEI collaborated with Sustainable Food Systems Ireland to develop the Malawi Food Systems Transformation Tool using the SDG Synergies platform.





