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This policy brief from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) explains the critical links between air pollution, human health, and climate change. It argues that prioritizing the immediate health benefits of reducing air pollutants can drive the policy changes necessary to achieve the IPCC's 1.5°C warming goal. The document highlights the role of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and introduces the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) and Integrated Benefits Calculator (IBC) as tools for cities and countries to plan integrated emission reduction strategies.

This policy brief, produced to inform the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, outlines a long-term vision for transforming global energy systems to achieve sustainability. It argues that a fundamental shift is necessary to address simultaneous challenges of energy access, climate change, air pollution, and energy security, emphasizing that such a transition is technologically and economically achievable but requires integrated policy frameworks and scaled-up investments.

This fact sheet from the CADWAGO project discusses the conceptual framework for addressing water dilemmas, emphasizing the need to reconcile both conflicting interests and competing claims over agency (position dilemmas) in water governance, particularly under the uncertainties of climate change.

This briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) advocates for a transition from a linear 'take>make>waste' economy to a circular economy to address environmental degradation and resource depletion. It outlines the principles of circularity, the economic and environmental benefits of such a transition, and provides examples of corporate implementation and SEI's own related projects.

This briefing from the Stockholm Environment Institute outlines pathways for the global steel sector to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. It highlights the necessity of transitioning away from conventional blast furnaces by 2025 to avoid stranded assets and catastrophic climate impacts, emphasizing a mix of hydrogen-based direct reduced iron (HDRI), carbon capture and storage (CCS), and increased recycling. The document stresses the critical role of policy-makers in providing clean energy, creating lead markets, and fostering international cooperation, specifically mentioning the Glasgow Breakthrough on Steel.

This methodology report from the Stockholm Environment Institute introduces the Transnational Climate Impacts (TCI) Index, a framework designed to quantify country-level exposure to climate impacts that occur in one location as a consequence of climate events elsewhere. The report details the selection of nine indicators across four risk pathways—biophysical, finance, people, and trade—plus a global context indicator, to identify how international interconnections and dependencies create climate-related risks for nations regardless of their internal vulnerability.

This fact sheet describes the Strategic Collaborative Fund (SCF), a programme launched in 2018 by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia with support from the Swedish government (Sida). The SCF focuses on enhancing the 2030 Agenda in Asia and the Pacific through regional cooperation, policy dialogue, and capacity building, with a specific emphasis on rights-based approaches, gender, and social equality.

This fact sheet describes the Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP), an analysis tool developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to calculate and illustrate the environmental impact of consumption at local, regional, and national levels. It emphasizes the importance of accounting for the entire life cycle of products, including production in other countries, to understand the full ecological footprint of consumption.

This capacity statement outlines the Stockholm Environment Institute's (SEI) approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and sustainable development, highlighting its role as a transdisciplinary think tank that integrates scientific research with policy engagement and capacity-building to reduce human vulnerability to natural hazards.

This executive summary previews a forthcoming book on the economic valuation of ocean services and the consequences of global environmental change. It identifies six primary threats to the ocean—acidification, warming, hypoxia, sea level rise, pollution, and overuse of resources—and argues that these stressors often interact synergistically, accelerating ecosystem degradation. The document advocates for a shift from traditional cost-benefit analysis to insurance-based risk models to account for catastrophic tipping points and recommends the appointment of a UN High Commissioner for Oceans to coordinate global governance.

This September 2020 report by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) provides practical guidance for organizations to track, report, and reduce business air travel emissions. Based on the TR2AIL project, which involved interviews at SEI and the University of East Anglia, the document outlines strategies for setting emissions targets, implementing decision-support tools, and fostering an organizational culture that prioritizes lower-carbon travel alternatives.

The UK Soy Manifesto is a collective industry commitment to ensure that all physical shipments of soy imported into the UK are free from deforestation and conversion. Signatories commit to implementing these standards immediately where possible, and no later than 2025, using a cut-off date of January 2020 for deforestation and conversion.

This report by the Stockholm Environment Institute and UNECE analyzes the potential for enhanced energy connectivity in Central Asia. Through scenario modelling, it demonstrates that transitioning from national self-sufficiency to integrated regional power trading can lower electricity production costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve energy security by leveraging the diverse renewable and low-carbon resources of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

This policy brief, published in November 2011 by UNESCO, SCOPE, and UNEP, examines the scientific, policy, and ethical implications of geoengineering (climate engineering). It distinguishes between carbon geoengineering and solar geoengineering, outlines a four-stage research framework, and highlights the urgent need for an international governance framework to manage the risks and equities associated with large-scale climate manipulation.

This report by the World Resources Institute examines Concentrating Solar Thermal power (CST) as a large-scale, zero-carbon alternative to coal-fired power generation. It highlights the role of thermal storage in providing baseload power and discusses the policy and economic barriers—such as high upfront capital costs and the need for carbon pricing—that must be addressed to accelerate global deployment, particularly in rapidly developing economies.

This document is a testimony provided by Dr. Jonathan Pershing, Director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program at the World Resources Institute, to the Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe. Pershing argues for an integrated policy framework that addresses the intersection of energy security and climate change, asserting that while some energy solutions create trade-offs, others—such as energy efficiency and renewables—provide mutual benefits for both security and the environment.

This guide by the World Resources Institute, developed with Johnson Controls, provides urban leaders with a framework and eight specific action categories to increase building efficiency. It outlines the economic, social, and environmental benefits of reducing the energy and resource footprint of the built environment, while offering a strategic approach to overcoming the "efficiency gap" through integrated policy planning and stakeholder engagement.

This report provides a pilot analysis of global grassland ecosystems, evaluating their condition based on the capacity to provide essential goods and services. While current goods and services are rated as good to fair, the report warns of a decline in the overall capacity of these ecosystems to sustain human, plant, and animal life due to degradation, urbanization, and biodiversity loss.

This research paper introduces a globally scalable, open-source framework designed to help cities map and quantify the potential for heat-resilient infrastructure. The framework utilizes a new high-resolution urban land-cover dataset called OpenUrban to generate implementation scenarios for passive cooling interventions such as trees, cool roofs, reflective pavements, and shade structures.

This briefing from the World Resources Institute discusses the role of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in mitigating climate change and identifies the primary policy and technical barriers to its deployment.