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Around 2.4 billion people use biomass fuels - wood, charcoal and animal dung - for their domestic energy needs. These are typically burned in inefficient stoves or on open fires, with serious consequences for health and the environment. SEI identifies and designs actions to help households transition to cleaner technologies and energy sources.
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Media coverage / Kuwait faces three challenges to ensure future prosperity: diversify its oil-dependent economy, stimulate efficient energy usage, and develop renewable energy.
Media coverage / Former head of UNDP and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, attends the policy dialogue hosted by SEI and the New Zealand Embassy in Sweden.
Feature / Africa could reach nearly a quarter of its energy needs from clean renewable energy by 2030. What are the challenges to realising this potential?
Media coverage / Project uses creative methods to engage informal settlement community
Project / A scientifically robust and policy-relevant framework to identify and assess priority measures that maximize the multiple-benefits for air quality and climate.
Journal article / The authors examine factors that enable or hinder household-level biogas development in rural Bali, Indonesia.
Media coverage / The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research has launched the first edition of the Kuwait Energy Outlook.
Other publication / This report presents the results of a six-year evaluation of Derwenthorpe, an urban extension of 500 homes in York.
SEI brief / Understanding gendered experiences in the energy sector is crucial to ensuring transitions to renewable energy are of benefit for all.









