SEI strategy 2025–29

The SEI strategy 2025–29 focuses on three impact areas: climate transitions, nature and resources, and health and wellbeing. It introduces 'accelerating implementation' as a new strategic outcome to move faster on global goals. The institute aims to pursue innovative research on emerging topics such as critical raw materials, the sustainability of AI, and the intersection of climate transitions and international security, while strengthening its global integration as 'One SEI'.

• SEI has established five new strategic directions for 2025–29: boosting research for implementation, pursuing innovative research on emerging topics, deepening engagement in research-to-policy networks, strengthening data use and analysis, and promoting a "One SEI" integrated global organizational approach.
• The institute's research agenda for the period includes specific focus on the sustainability dimensions of AI, critical raw materials and mining, and the links between international security and climate transitions.
• SEI identifies three core impact areas with specific priorities: 'climate transitions' (focusing on energy transitions, net zero strategies, and methane/black carbon), 'nature and resources' (focusing on water management, deforestation, and circular bioeconomy), and 'health and wellbeing' (focusing on gender equity, healthy cities, and sustainable food systems).
• A new strategic outcome, 'accelerating implementation', has been added to the institute's theory of change to address the urgent need to enact climate and development goals and agreements more effectively.
• SEI utilizes a 'theory of change' based on partnership and evidence to achieve four main outcomes: changing agendas, enhancing capacities, improving decisions, and accelerating implementation.
• The institute emphasizes the use of quantitative datasets, timeseries data, and the development of AI-driven analytics to improve the interpretation and application of data.

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

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=SEI strategy 2025–29 |url=https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sei-strategy-brochure-20250916.pdf |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

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} }