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The report examines the plastic recycling ecosystem in Mombasa, Kenya, identifying a value chain that ranges from informal waste pickers to formal converters. While PET, HDPE, and PVC are recycled, other polymers like LDPE and polystyrene largely end up as litter. The study highlights significant barriers to a circular economy, including high licensing costs, poor working conditions for marginalized collectors, and a lack of designated recycling infrastructure. It emphasizes the potential of upcoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations to transform the sector and recommends implementing waste segregation at the source and providing financial incentives for recyclers.

Global Shipping Watch is a data platform that matches cargo records with vessel movements from the Automatic Information System (AIS) to attribute maritime emissions to specific companies, products, and countries. By addressing the previous inability to associate emissions with individual cargo owners, the tool aims to improve scope 3 carbon reporting and life-cycle analyses. The initial 2019 data release covers US imports and exports, as well as exports from Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Indonesia.

The report analyzes urban greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on the transportation and built environment sectors. It evaluates the annual emissions reduction potential of various efficiency-based technologies—such as electric vehicles, LED street lighting, and building retrofits—and explores carbon removal strategies, including artificial technologies and nature-based solutions. The analysis provides a baseline for both global and Swedish emissions to guide municipal policymakers in selecting high-impact decarbonization strategies.

The authors analyze transportation data from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically focusing on the shift toward working from home. By applying the Opportunity, Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model and a concept map, the paper explores how these behavioral changes impact carbon emissions and suggests that policy-makers can leverage these shifts to support long-term climate mitigation goals aligned with the Paris Agreement.

The research identifies systemic feedbacks that lock the Punjab agricultural system into crop residue burning despite legal barriers and the existence of more profitable alternatives. It concludes that while government policy is necessary, achieving sustainability requires transformative shifts toward crop diversification, circular business models, and green financing, with financial institutions playing a key role in leveraging these changes.

The study found that while individual crop cycles in the Brazilian Cerrado can act as carbon sinks, the overall fields act as net carbon sources when accounting for harvest removals and emissions from soil preparation and intercropping. Irrigation was found to enhance carbon sink capacity compared to rainfed systems by mitigating drought-related losses and enabling additional harvests.

The Stockholm Environment Institute advocates for a shift in global climate diplomacy, moving away from 'us vs them' dynamics between developed and developing nations toward coalitions based on shared interdependence. Drawing on analysis of climate risk exposure, responsibility, and financial capacity, the author suggests that wealthy, high-emitting countries and vulnerable nations share a mutual self-interest in managing cross-border risks. The document highlights a new partnership with the EU and the role of the Glasgow–Sharm el-Sheikh Work Programme on the Global Goal on Adaptation in driving this transition.

The report evaluates four sanitation configurations in Montero, Bolivia, finding that while the city's utility cooperative COSMOL successfully manages a mix of centralized and decentralized systems, significant gaps in governance, technical optimization, and public awareness persist. It highlights that urine-diverting dry toilets (UDDTs) offer the highest environmental potential and that local farmers are open to using treated sanitation by-products as fertilizers, provided quality and price are managed. However, household adoption of non-sewered systems is hindered by perceptions of odors and a view of such technologies as merely transitional.

The ClimVis Europe pilot project identifies a significant gap between the production of complex climate data and its usability for non-expert decision-makers and educators in Europe. Through surveys and focus groups across six countries, the project found that existing tools often exclude users due to a lack of native-language options—particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia—and a failure to link real-time extreme weather events with long-term climate trends. The findings advocate for the co-development of intuitive, multilinguistic tools that provide necessary context to support climate risk reduction and adaptation strategies.

The report evaluates four sanitation system configurations in Montero, Bolivia, finding that while the utility COSMOL has successfully implemented mixed services, significant gaps remain in environmental sustainability and governance. It highlights that minor technical optimizations can reduce health and environmental risks across all systems, with urine-diverting dry toilets (UDDTs) offering the highest potential for impact reduction. While local farmers show interest in sanitation-derived fertilizers, household acceptance of on-site systems is hindered by concerns over odors and vectors. The report concludes that upscaling sustainable sanitation requires stronger collaboration between local authorities and COSMOL, new policy instruments, and a long-term strategic vision.

The report analyzes 57 SEI projects from 2010-2021, finding a heavy concentration in circular bioeconomy, solid waste, and water management, primarily in Europe and Asia. It identifies critical knowledge gaps in impact assessment, just transition, business models, and consumer behavior, recommending a shift toward higher-priority circularity strategies (refuse and rethink) and transdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder collaborations.

The report analyzes how climate change acts as a 'threat multiplier' in Asia, compounding existing social, political, and economic vulnerabilities to exacerbate conflict and drive migration. Focusing on Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, it examines how environmental stressors like droughts and floods intersect with ethnic discrimination and political instability. It highlights the specific vulnerabilities of displaced populations, such as the Rohingya and Afghans, who often reside in hazard-prone urban slums or camps. The document argues that national and regional policies frequently omit the climate-conflict-migration nexus and recommends that humanitarian agencies and policy-makers integrate these linkages to build long-term resilience and support safe, regular migration.

The authors argue that any climate compatibility checkpoint for UK oil and gas licensing must be based on a rapid wind-down of production consistent with 1.5°C pathways. They highlight that while different IPCC scenarios vary in their assumptions regarding carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and methane reductions, all require production to peak by 2020 for oil and 2025 for gas. The authors suggest that as a high-income country with low revenue dependence on fossil fuels, the UK should adopt a precautionary approach and potentially decrease production faster than the global average to ensure an equitable transition. They further refute the claim that reducing UK production would not impact global emissions, citing empirical evidence that supply reductions increase prices and lower global consumption.

The briefing examines the limitations of current water management frameworks, such as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the water-energy-food nexus, in addressing water teleconnections. Using case studies from Colombia and Southeast Asia, it demonstrates how agricultural exports (coffee and rice) transfer 'virtual water' across borders, creating dependencies that are not captured by traditional basin-level planning. The author contends that a multi-scale approach is necessary to integrate local challenges with regional and global economic connections.

The KE4CAP project convened a global network of 30 climate adaptation platforms (CAPs) and over 200 specialists to share lessons, build capacity, and address challenges. The project emphasizes that CAPs are vital for providing high-quality information to policymakers and practitioners to support national and transnational adaptation strategies and informed decision-making.

The KE4CAP project created a global forum for practitioners of climate adaptation platforms (CAPs) to engage in mutual learning and improve the effectiveness of their platforms. Over approximately two years, the initiative built a community of more than 200 specialists representing 30 platforms across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America.

The report examines the intersection of private market capital and municipal sustainability efforts in Sweden, noting that while capital access is not currently a primary constraint, systemic barriers hinder the transition.

The document examines the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, specifically regarding how systemic risks cascade across borders and sectors. It advocates for a broader approach to resilience that incorporates human wellbeing, ecological health, and adaptive risk management to handle the complexity of climate extremes.

The document examines the role of bio-inputs and biological control agents in Colombia's transition toward a sustainable bioeconomy. It highlights Colombia's early leadership in regulatory frameworks, the growth of a science-intensive industry comprising 238 registered companies, and the preference for these tools among exporters of high-value crops. However, it identifies significant barriers, including lengthy and costly registration processes (up to 5 years and $15,000), a lack of farmer education regarding the preventive nature of bio-inputs, the risks of unregulated artisanal production, and a reliance on imported cosmopolitan microorganisms over native biodiversity.

The document outlines the financial landscape for nine Swedish cities—Gothenburg, Linköping, Lund, Malmö, Nacka, Örebro, Östersund, Västerås, and Vellinge—stating that achieving climate neutrality would require at least 19,271 SEK per capita per year until 2030. It details municipal funding inflows, including taxes, subsidies, and debt, and distinguishes between on-balance sheet investments (equity and debt) and off-balance sheet options like blended finance and crowdfunding. A significant focus is placed on green bonds, with the nine cities having issued 52 such bonds to raise 31.2 billion SEK for projects like renewable energy and clean transportation.