Strategy 2020–24 Knowledge for action

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Strategy 2020–24 focuses on bridging science, policy, and practice to address global sustainability challenges. The institute identifies three primary impact areas: reducing climate risk, promoting sustainable resource use and resilient ecosystems, and improving health and well-being. To achieve these, SEI employs a theory of change centered on changing agendas, enhancing capacities, and improving decisions. The strategy emphasizes the use of data science, the development of decision-support tools, and the implementation of programmatic hubs called 'Initiatives' to tackle specific issues like carbon lock-in and bioeconomy pathways. Operationally, SEI utilizes a distributed network of centres across five continents to ensure regional relevance and North-South/South-South knowledge exchange. The institute also commits to an environmental policy aiming to reduce its per capita carbon travel footprint by at least 25% between 2017 and 2024.

• SEI has identified three universal impact areas for 2020–24: reduced climate risk, sustainable resource use and resilient ecosystems, and improved health and well-being.
• To reduce climate risk, SEI prioritizes supporting governments with national climate plans (NDCs), strengthening adaptation and disaster risk reduction decision-making, and facilitating industrial transitions away from fossil fuels.
• SEI's approach to sustainable resource use includes promoting sustainable bioeconomy strategies, holistic water resource management, and using the Trase platform to map commodity supply chains to address deforestation and biodiversity risk.
• In the area of health and well-being, SEI focuses on enhancing air quality in low- and middle-income countries, scaling up sustainable sanitation solutions, and integrating health into city planning and disaster response.
• The institute operates under a theory of change that seeks to generate three types of outcomes: changing formal and informal policy agendas, strengthening organizational and stakeholder capacities, and improving decisions in public policy, finance, and business.
• SEI has established several programmatic 'Initiatives' to mobilize expertise, including 'Tackling Carbon Lock-in' to address barriers to the fossil-fuel transition and 'Bioeconomy Pathways' to govern the shift to bio-based economies.
• The institute utilizes a distributed structure with centres on five continents to ground research in local realities and enable North-South, South-South, and South-North learning.
• SEI aims to reduce its environmental impact by decreasing its per capita carbon travel footprint by at least 25% from 2017 to 2024.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2019). Strategy 2020–24 Knowledge for action. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sei-strategy-2020%E2%80%9324-report-web.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Strategy 2020–24 Knowledge for action. 2019. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sei-strategy-2020%E2%80%9324-report-web.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2019strategy, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Strategy 2020–24 Knowledge for action}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sei-strategy-2020%E2%80%9324-report-web.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }