SEI strategy 2025–29

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) strategy for 2025–29 focuses on accelerating the implementation of climate and sustainability goals through five new strategic directions and three core impact areas: climate transitions, nature and resources, and health and wellbeing.

• SEI has established five new strategic directions for the 2025–29 period to adapt to a 'turbulent world'. These include boosting research for implementation, pursuing innovative research on emerging topics such as critical raw materials, mining, the sustainability of AI, and the links between climate transitions and international security, deepening engagement in research-to-policy networks, strengthening data use and analysis (specifically quantitative datasets, timeseries data, and AI tools), and promoting a 'One SEI' approach to increase collaboration between teams and centres.
• The organization's work is centered on three primary impact areas: climate transitions, nature and resources, and health and wellbeing. Priorities within climate transitions include accelerating the shift from fossil fuels to renewables and supporting net-zero strategies. Nature and resources priorities focus on climate-resilient water management, tackling deforestation, and governing critical raw materials. Health and wellbeing priorities include enhancing gender and social equity, supporting healthy cities, and shifting food systems for sustainability.
• SEI utilizes a theory of change based on four outcomes: changing agendas, enhancing capacities, improving decisions, and a newly introduced outcome, accelerating implementation. The addition of 'accelerating implementation' is a response to the 'acute need to enact climate and development goals more urgently and effectively'.
• SEI's research on the 'Production Gap Report' since 2019 has influenced global climate policy, contributing to the COP28 agreement to transition away from fossil fuels and impacting legal rulings, such as a May 2021 District Court of The Hague ruling requiring Shell to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 45%.
• The institute supports over 20 low- and middle-income countries in integrating the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals into their planning using energy modelling tools like LEAP and LEAP-IBC. In Nigeria, this work supported an updated NDC stating that 30,000 premature deaths could be prevented by 2030 through meeting climate mitigation targets.
• SEI's Trase program provides data to reduce deforestation in commodity supply chains, having worked with the French government on import strategies and with actors in Brazil to address illegal deforestation in the soy supply chain.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). SEI strategy 2025–29. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sei-strategy-brochure-20250916.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. SEI strategy 2025–29. n.d. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sei-strategy-brochure-20250916.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendsei, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{SEI strategy 2025–29}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sei-strategy-brochure-20250916.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }