SEI Asia Strategy 2020-24

The SEI Asia Strategy 2020-24 establishes a framework to bridge science, policy, and practice to achieve environmental sustainability and inclusive development in Asia. The strategy is organized around three primary impact areas: reduced climate risk, sustainable resource use and resilient ecosystems, and improved health and well-being. To achieve these, SEI Asia focuses on five core research and policy clusters: Gender, Environment and Development; Water; Climate Change, Disasters and Development; Urban; and Policy. The document also highlights specialized programs for the Mekong Region and Myanmar, and identifies evolving areas of work including ecological economics, sustainable finance, and the environment-health nexus.

• SEI Asia's strategic framework is built upon a theory of change that targets three specific outcomes: changing agendas, enhancing capacities, and improving decisions, with the ultimate goal of achieving a sustainable and prosperous future for all.
• The strategy identifies three overarching impact areas that guide all research and engagement: reducing climate risk, ensuring sustainable resource use and resilient ecosystems, and improving health and well-being.
• The Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET), hosted by SEI Asia, has expanded from 14 to 70 organizations and will focus through 2028 on reducing water insecurities, particularly for poor, marginalized, and socially vulnerable groups.
• In Myanmar, SEI Asia's work since 2013 in the Ayeyarwady and Chindwin River Basins contributed to the establishment of the country's first River Basin Organization (RBO) along the Chindwin River Basin.
• SEI Asia intends to integrate ecological economics into its work to use economic frameworks—such as value data and inclusive problem framing—to help governments identify priorities and incentivize long-term behavior change.
• The strategy proposes the establishment of a Centre for Financing Sustainability (CFS), using the Thai financial sector as a pilot, to align the private financial sector with the Paris Agreement and help Thailand become a regional green financial hub.
• The organization aims to strengthen the intersection between environment and health, arguing that integrated actions—such as tackling climate change and air pollution simultaneously—can provide significant co-benefits for health and climate resilience.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). SEI Asia Strategy 2020-24. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sei-strategy-web.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. SEI Asia Strategy 2020-24. 2020. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sei-strategy-web.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020sei, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{SEI Asia Strategy 2020-24}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sei-strategy-web.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }