Mitigation

Avoiding dangerous climate change requires ambitious action to deeply reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the international, national, and local community levels. SEI informs, supports and advises decision-makers and civil society on possible pathways to an equitable, low-carbon future.

Aerial view of forestry machinery logging trees

“Everyone’s chasing removals”: SEI’s Derik Broekhoff comments on emissions reduction vs. removals in the carbon market

Media coverage / Senior Scientist Derik Broekhoff spoke to the climate news outlet Heatmap on the tension between carbon removals and emissions in the voluntary carbon market.

17 April 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Mitigation, Pollution and Public policy

AgriFoSe2030 report launch: Navigating the food crises: insights from Southeast Asia and East Africa

Past event / The AgriFoSe2030 team invites you to join us for the launch of the perspectives report on approaches to navigating food crises in SSA and SE Asia.

14 April 2023 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture and Mitigation

Oil well in frozen swath of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, before a twilight sky

SEI’s Michael Lazarus to New York Times: US faces ‘contradiction’ between fossil fuel extraction and climate goals

Media coverage / The Biden Administration disappointed climate activists by approving the Willow oil and gas project in Alaska. But that isn't the half of it.

6 April 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Land use, Mitigation, Public policy and Renewables

Multilateral climate finance coordination: politics and depoliticization in practice

Journal article / This article studies the coordination efforts of the most important multilateral climate funds, the CIF and the GCF, on the global level, in Kenya and Zambia.

30 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Finance and Mitigation

Aerial zenithal view of lake with ice melting.

The risks are starting to pile on, SEI’s Francis X. Johnson warns AP

Media coverage / SEI's Francis X. Johnson speaks to The Associated Press about the recent IPCC Synthesis Report.

20 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Finance, Fossil fuels, Mitigation and Renewables

Q&A: Francis X. Johnson on the IPCC Synthesis Report

Feature / In this Q&A, SEI Senior Research Fellow Francis X. Johnson discusses the IPCC Synthesis Report's significance, highlights and key takeaways.

20 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Disaster Risk, Finance, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Mitigation and Sustainable Development Goals

Two women cook around a wood-burning fire in South Africa.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

13 March 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Forests, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Cranes, Gothenburg harbour, Sweden © Peter Berglund / Getty

Towards a sustainable blue economy in Sweden

SEI report / A new report summarizes how a transformative transition towards a more sustainable "blue economy" could take place in Sweden, with impacts outside of Sweden.

9 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Food and agriculture, Mitigation and Water resources

Press point for journalists, policy-makers and stakeholders for the Mid-term Sendai Review

Past event / Join the ISC and Disaster Risk Reduction experts for a press point on the launch of the Sendai Framework Mid-term Review.

01 March 2023 / About Climate policy, Climate services and Mitigation