Land use

A person walking with a basket on a stone walkway beside a bright green agricultural field, with mountains, a village and fog in the distance.

Prospects and challenges for implementing land-based climate change mitigation in support of carbon dioxide removal in China

SEI working paper / Land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs) have great potential in China; how does policy promote these practices despite challenges?

7 February 2024 / About Climate policy, Land use and Mitigation

Aerial view of a palm oil plantation. The bottom two thirds of the image shows regular planted trees; across the top third a wavy forest borders cuts off the pattern.

Assessing tropical deforestation in Germany’s agricultural commodity supply chains

Other publication / The German economy is linked to significant amounts of deforestation risk, but the majority of this risk results from just five key commodities.

29 January 2024 / About Land use and Supply chains

The Earth rises over the moon's horizon against the black outer space

The new “space race”: intensifying competition to control resources on land, of the ocean and in outer space

Perspective / Unprecedented pressure on the planet’s finite resources fuels a new race for space of all kinds. How will we manage the trade-offs and resulting conflicts?

17 January 2024 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Land use, Renewables and Water resources

Drone panoramic aerial view of illegal amazon deforestation, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Forest trees and agriculture field land.

Changes in evapotranspiration, transpiration and evaporation across natural and managed landscapes in the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes

Journal article / In this study, the authors investigated how evaporation and transpiration vary within 3 Brazilian biomes for natural and managed land uses and land covers.

15 January 2024 / About Land use

Nordic socio-recreational ecosystem services in a hydropeaked river

Journal article / The authors present a novel spatiotemporal hydropeaking impact assessment of socio-recreational ecosystem services (SRESs).

5 January 2024 / About Land use and Water resources

The Global South Alliance for a Just Transition to Renewable Energy (JustRE)

Project / A new alliance championing socially responsible renewable energy implementation with meaningful participation and benefits for communities across the globe.

2024 / About Climate policy, Land use, Mitigation, Renewables, Supply chains and Water-energy-food nexus

A rocky green hill in the background of a blue and yellow sky

Land use conflicts on Sámi lands

Project / Green transition has become a catch-all solution, but it's not without its trade-offs and conflicts. We seek to highlight them to ensure a just transition.

2024 - 2027 / About Climate policy and Land use

Birdseye view of heavy mining equipment on brown rock formation during daytime

Mistra Mineral Governance

Project / Mistra Mineral Governance research project aims to help decision-makers in Sweden and the EU navigate the critical mineral governance landscape.

2024 - 2028 / About Geopolitics, Land use, Renewables and Supply chains

Shadowy outlines of several reindeer stopped in their tracks with their heads turned toward the camera in the background of dark green hills drenched in sunlight from a bright, but cloudy sky.

RADISAM

Project / RADISAM investigates Nordic settler colonialism and its impact on present day Indigenous land rights and discrimination against the Sámi.

2024 - 2027 / About Forests, Land use and Public policy