Innovation

NDC-SDG Connections

Tool / Analyse and compare how climate actions correspond to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

ROCK

Project / Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities

A political economy perspective on technology innovation in the Kenyan clean cookstove sector

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.

Dematerialization, decoupling, and productivity change

Journal article / This paper proposes a novel explanation for why economic output has not historically been decoupled from total energy and material throughput.

A sustainable Europe through business unusual

Perspective / We need business unusual and Estonia’s successful track record in the last 25 years gives us hope that it will be able to make its mark, writes Lauri Tammiste.

New project explores how to secure the UK’s food future

Feature / How do we keep food on the plates of UK households in the coming decades? This is a central question for IKnowFood, a major new collaborative research project.

How can Swedish steel deliver on the Global Goals?

Feature / A recent workshop kicked off a process to explore the Sustainable Development Goals from the perspective of one of Sweden’s key industries - the steel industry.

Can resource efficiency give an edge to Estonian businesses?

Feature / SEI Tallinn and the Estonian Ministry of the Environment are part of a new project aimed at engaging businesses in the circular economy.

Mistra Geopolitics

Project / This project aims to critically examine how the dynamics of geopolitics, human security and global environmental change interrelate.