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The paper examines why climate service producers in Sweden struggle to provide actionable information for climate adaptation, shifting the focus from producer incompetence to the systemic constraints they face. Based on interviews and participant observation, the authors identify funding, institutional, and professional barriers, while noting that even when actionable information is delivered, other external factors may still prevent its translation into practical action.

The paper presents five new consumption-based indicators for hazardous substances, utilizing a hybrid model that combines EXIOBASE with the Swedish System of Economic and Environmental Accounts. Applying these to Sweden, the study finds that the vast majority of chemicals-related pressures (76–90%) occur outside Sweden's borders, with specific pressures like pesticide use and hazardous emissions occurring primarily outside the EU.

The text emphasizes that climate change adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya will fail unless policies account for the intersection of gender with class, caste, ethnicity, and geography. It asserts that climate science and interventions must be linked with the contextual experiences of different groups, as gender relations create distinct vulnerabilities for women and men.

The report identifies significant regulatory and institutional hurdles to phosphorus (P) reuse in the Baltic Sea Region, particularly within the EU's fertilizer and waste frameworks. While the EU's Circular Economy package provides a positive signal, the study finds that 'silo-thinking' across sectors and a lack of harmonized national policies hinder the transition from linear to circular nutrient economies. It highlights a risk of 'lock-in' to sub-optimal technologies, such as mono-incineration in Germany, and recommends mainstreaming circular economy principles at local and national levels to support diverse systemic solutions like source separation.

The document argues that women's economic empowerment (WEE) strategies in South and Southeast Asian agriculture often fail to achieve gender equality because they ignore systemic patriarchal norms and power imbalances. It identifies four primary barriers: the perception of women as secondary labour, the gap between legal access and actual control over resources, the confinement of women to low-value stages of the agricultural value chain, and gender-blind policy implementation. The author contends that economic growth and market inclusion do not automatically lead to gender equality. To address this, the briefing recommends positioning social equality as central to projects, facilitating power negotiations, supporting collective action for women, and ensuring gender-responsive policy implementation across ministerial bodies.

The document examines gender imbalances in the energy sector of the Lower Mekong Region, noting that women are under-represented in technical roles and often excluded from energy decision-making. It highlights how gender norms, limited access to education, and siloed policy environments hinder women's participation in the transition to renewable energy. The briefing recommends promoting equal workforce opportunities, exploring community energy models, and developing gender-responsive national policies to ensure a just transition.

The document examines the gendered dimensions of water insecurity in the Lower Mekong Region, noting that women bear heavier caring burdens and are largely excluded from water governance, which remains a masculine technical domain. It highlights a disconnect between national gender policies and water policies, and argues that current gender mainstreaming is often tokenistic. The brief recommends involving women leaders in decision-making, integrating gender into water governance curricula, and creating partnerships between water and gender-mandated institutions.

The document argues that public participation is essential for achieving sustainable development goals, as it provides local knowledge and increases the legitimacy of decisions. It distinguishes between 'invited spaces' (formal state-led processes) and 'created spaces' (citizen-led mobilization), noting that these often interact to influence policy. However, the authors warn that without intentional design to address social injustice, participation can reinforce existing inequalities and be hindered by technocratic exclusion.

The report details a participatory framework developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to identify synergies and conflicts between SDG targets in Colombia. It outlines a 7-point scoring system to evaluate first-order (direct) and second-order (indirect) interactions, which are then analyzed using network analysis to inform policy prioritization. The methodology will be piloted through workshops in Bogotá and Antioquia, focusing on a preselected set of 20 targets with a particular emphasis on water management as a transversal element. The goal is to provide a systemic tool for national and subnational decision-makers to ensure that progress in one area does not hinder another.

The document identifies how social norms, political processes, and economic shifts marginalize women in the fisheries sector of South and Southeast Asia. It highlights the invisibility of women's labor, their exclusion from decision-making, and the negative impacts of industrialized fishing on small-scale producers. The briefing proposes five regional pathways for transformation, including increasing gender awareness, providing analysis training, improving women's agency, combating violence, and breaking policy siloes.

The document examines how current just transition policies often focus narrowly on compensating direct fossil fuel workers, thereby overlooking marginalized groups and structural inequalities. Through analysis of the US and Thailand, it highlights gaps in gender and racial representation and the risk of geographic economic disparities. It advocates for long-term strategies that integrate distributive and procedural justice to ensure a fair transition for all affected stakeholders.

The document highlights a 'production gap' where current fossil fuel extraction trajectories far exceed carbon budgets for 1.5°C and 2°C scenarios. It advocates for a combination of supply-side measures—such as exploration moratoriums and subsidy removals—and demand-side policies to achieve cost-effective emission reductions and a just transition for affected workers.

The study identifies key strengths in the Estonian EIA/SEA system, such as the licensing of lead experts and the role of assessments in highlighting environmental considerations. However, it reveals significant challenges, including conflicting views on the expert's role, lengthy procedures due to bureaucratic coordination, and the reluctance of decision-makers to make unpopular decisions based on assessment results. The report also notes a need for more flexible Natura 2000 assessments and better integration of socio-economic impacts in strategic assessments.

The PRINCE project developed a hybrid model combining Swedish national statistics with the EXIOBASE MRIO database to track environmental pressures from Swedish consumption between 2008 and 2014. The research found an absolute decoupling between economic growth and several key environmental pressures, including greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants, although GHG reductions remain insufficient for the Paris Agreement. Most environmental pressures from Swedish consumption, particularly hazardous chemical use and water consumption, occur outside Sweden, with China identified as a major geographic hotspot. The project also expanded indicators to cover deforestation, capture fisheries, and maritime shipping, highlighting that international trade drives a significant share of tropical deforestation emissions.

The SEI Environmental Strategy for Myanmar (2019-2028) establishes a framework for research, policy engagement, and capacity building across four primary themes: water resources and agriculture, gender and environment, sustainable energy, and climate change and disaster risk. The strategy aims to help Myanmar meet its commitments to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Paris Agreement. Key objectives include enhancing the capacity of river basin organizations, promoting a just transition to low-carbon energy systems, and addressing gender inequalities in natural resource management. SEI intends to implement this through partnerships with state agencies, such as the Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems, and non-state actors, using tools like the Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) system.

The 2019 Production Gap Report reveals that global fossil fuel production plans are significantly incompatible with the Paris Agreement goals. By 2030, planned production is projected to be 50% higher than consistent with a 2°C pathway and 120% higher than a 1.5°C pathway, with the largest gap occurring in coal. The report identifies that this gap is wider than the global emissions gap because governments continue to support production through subsidies, direct investment, and ambitious national targets. It examines 10 key producer countries and suggests 'supply-side' policies—such as extraction bans, subsidy reform, and just transition plans—to close the gap. The report emphasizes that international cooperation through the UN climate process and financial institutions is essential to manage an equitable decline in fossil fuel extraction.

The authors analyze the 'nexus' concept regarding natural resource demand and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, proposing a five-nodes definition to better align climate policy with the interests of supply-chain managers and resource-rich developing nations through improved modelling of bio-physical and human dimensions.

The report examines the economic feasibility of ecotechnologies, specifically those focused on phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) recovery in wastewater and agriculture. It identifies a prevalence of private-cost analyses over social-cost assessments and notes that most recovery technologies are not currently market-competitive without subsidies or the inclusion of social externalities. The document outlines the application of Techno-Economic Assessments (TEA), Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA), and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), concluding that the social perspective significantly improves the perceived economic efficiency of these technologies.

The Talanoa Dialogue is a UN-led inclusive process designed to assess collective climate action and motivate countries to increase their ambitions before submitting new nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in 2020. It serves as a test-run for the global stocktake scheduled to begin in 2023. The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) contributed to the process by advocating for the alignment of fossil fuel production with Paris Agreement goals, suggesting that countries use NDCs and long-term strategies to map a managed decline in fossil fuel supply.

The document highlights a systemic lack of integration between national low-emission development strategies (LEDS) and long-term adaptation plans, noting that neither typically accounts for the other's impacts or pathways.