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Practitioners primarily use Google, social media, and professional networks to find information, whereas researchers primarily publish in peer-reviewed journals to meet career and funding requirements.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002336#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Swedish practitioners show a preference for research produced by globally recognized international institutions over research from Swedish universities and organizations. This is driven by a desire to avoid imposing a 'Swedish agenda' on partners in development countries and a lack of awareness regarding where to find Swedish research.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002336#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The report identifies a lack of funding and institutional incentives to support organized platforms for research-policy collaboration in Sweden. 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Based on a workshop with government agencies and industrial companies, it identifies key characteristics of successful permitting—such as transparency, predictability, and dialogue—and emphasizes the critical role of competence and resources. The brief argues that while some regulatory reforms may be needed, significant improvements can be achieved within existing frameworks by increasing institutional expertise, ensuring stable funding for authorities, and encouraging companies to treat stakeholder dialogue as a core competence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Participants identified ten key characteristics of a well-functioning permitting process: transparency, unambiguity, time-efficiency, thorough documentation, legal certainty, predictability, structured planning, a character of dialogue, appreciation of different roles, and early consensus on key issues.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The ease of a permitting process is influenced by the project's site and type; projects with smaller land footprints located away from recreational areas, water resources, or important ecological habitats are generally more straightforward.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Competence and resources are critical for smooth processes. For companies, this means transparency regarding project plan choices; for authorities, it requires experienced case officers, institutional memory, and organizational learning routines.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To improve permitting outcomes without regulatory reform, it is recommended that companies avoid outsourcing the entire process to consultants and instead treat permitting and stakeholder dialogue as a core internal competence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Stable, long-term funding for permitting authorities is essential to maintain expert staff, as a reliance on short-term project funding hinders the recruitment of permanent expert case officers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a tension for authority case officers between adopting a dialogue-focused approach and adhering to traditional priorities of unbiasedness and formal procedures, suggesting a need for new guidelines to combine these goals.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Some participants suggested regulatory reforms to shift the allocation of agency responsibility for permitting processes based on project type rather than project location.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002724#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["Industrial decarbonization","steel","cement","petrochemical product","climate policy"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy brief","workshop analysis"]},{"id":"sei-002832","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/sei-002832","title":"Apoyos públicos a los combustibles fósiles en cuatro países latinoamericanos en el contexto de COVID-19","publisher":{"name":"Stockholm Environment Institute","organization":"stockholm-environment-institute"},"document_type":"policy brief","language":"es","date_published":"2021-11","source_url":"https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/vegaaraujo-et-al-2021.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document identifies a regional trend where Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico have used the COVID-19 economic recovery as a justification to expand fossil fuel extraction and subsidies, often framing natural gas as a 'bridge fuel' or citing 'energy sovereignty'. This approach creates a 'carbon lock-in' that contradicts their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and increases the risk of stranded assets. The report highlights the central role of state-owned enterprises (such as PEMEX, YPF, and Petrobras) in maintaining this fossil-fuel dependency and notes a general absence of concrete just transition plans for affected workers and communities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"There is a systemic contradiction in Latin America where fossil fuels remain central to post-pandemic economic recovery policies despite global narratives of energy transition.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Governments in the four studied countries prioritize 'energy sovereignty' over climate mitigation to justify the expansion of fossil fuel production and use.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Natural gas is widely promoted as a 'bridge fuel' to facilitate transition, which the report argues increases the risk of technological lock-in and the creation of stranded assets.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"State-owned enterprises are primary vehicles for maintaining fossil fuel production, receiving significant public support and protection during the pandemic.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Mexico, the government provided significant fiscal stimuli to PEMEX and excluded the hydrocarbon sector from austerity policies intended to address the health crisis.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Argentina's energy policy focuses on expanding the extractive frontier through fracking and offshore activities, with specific funding for YPF derived from a tax on large fortunes.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Brazil is increasing its reliance on natural gas and domestic coal for electricity generation, partly as a response to droughts affecting hydroelectric power.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Colombia's climate leadership is contradicted by its focus on hydrocarbon self-sufficiency, including offshore production and fracking pilots, as well as the promotion of 'blue hydrogen'.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002832#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["fossil fuel subsidy","energy transition","natural gas","Carbon lock-in","stranded asset","hydraulic fracturing","blue hydrogen","Nationally Determined Contributions","just transition","coal power"],"geography_discussed":["Latin America"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","comparative study"]},{"id":"sei-000329","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/sei-000329","title":"SDG Localization Baseline 2030","publisher":{"name":"Stockholm Environment Institute","organization":"stockholm-environment-institute"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2021-10-29","source_url":"https://www.sei.org/publications/sdg-localization-baseline-2030/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed"],"summary":{"text":"The SDG Localization Baseline 2030 report examines the practical implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at local and regional levels. 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