Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
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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.
253 results / 21 of 29 pages
Feature / Get a glimpse of what it means to live with air pollution in Mukuru informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.
Media coverage / By scaling up 10 selected low-carbon energy solutions, the Baltics, Poland and Ukraine could reduce their emissions by 150 Mt while saving money over time.
Journal article / Swedish case study: how do we model energy transitions to capture the technical, social, political and quantitative dimensions?
Initiative / This initiative aims to guide decision-makers towards more cohesive and constructive governance of bioeconomy pathways, with a focus on the Global South.
Press release / The World Health Organization estimates that millions of people die every year from lung and heart disease caused by cooking with solid fuels.
Feature / Kalenge, a village northwest of Tanzania, is unelectrified; its households have no connections to a central or local power grid.
Feature / This new network will engage with communities in Nairobi using theatre, visual arts, mobile phones, games, story-telling and music.
Journal article / After decades of programmes, there is a need to better understand if clean cookstoves are really transforming household energy use, and if not why not.
SEI brief / This policy brief highlights the successes and challenges Sweden's heat energy system faces as it moves towards a low carbon energy system.
