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This case study analyzes the relationship between water management and poverty in Senegal. While the country has made progress toward drinking water targets, sanitation remains a challenge, especially in rural areas. Agriculture consumes the vast majority of water withdrawals, and there is an increasing, potentially unsustainable reliance on groundwater. The report highlights that meeting food security goals will require nearly tripling water for agricultural food supply. Furthermore, climate change poses severe risks, with sea level rise potentially impacting 5-10% of GDP and 10% of the population.

This case study, commissioned by the African Development Bank and conducted by the Stockholm Environment Institute, examines the complex linkages between water management and poverty reduction in Tanzania. It analyzes the country's progress toward Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the impact of water on agriculture and ecosystems, and the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Pangani and Rufiji basins.

This policy brief, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute in March 2023, examines air pollution and its health impacts on workers in Cambodia's garment sector. Based on a study of 16 factories, it finds that while particulate matter levels generally complied with national standards and WHO guidelines on the day of assessment, there is a significant lack of worker awareness regarding air quality and its health risks. The document highlights the gendered nature of the workforce and recommends strengthening national air quality standards, improving gender-inclusive safety policies, and increasing worker education.

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.

The 'SCF2 MEL Guidance Notes 2022-05' provides a framework for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) for the Strategic Collaborative Fund Phase 2 (SCF2). It outlines a two-layer measurement design: event-level MEL implemented by partners and programme-level evaluation managed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). The guide details specific tools for data collection, GDPR-compliant data handling protocols, ethical requirements for human subject engagement, and environmental assessment criteria for funded events.

This consultation draft policy brief by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines climate hazards affecting the agriculture and water sectors in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It analyzes the status of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), identifies critical climate risks such as heatwaves and flooding, and outlines priority adaptation strategies and financing gaps across the region's member states.

This consultation draft report by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines the state of Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) and Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It identifies a gap between national-level policy frameworks and local-level implementation, noting that siloed institutional approaches and a lack of standardized tools hinder effective risk reduction. The document advocates for the institutionalization of bottom-up approaches, decentralized climate finance, and the integration of DRR and CCA to better support vulnerable populations, including women, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities.

This briefing explores the links between chemical safety, noise pollution, and social inequalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It identifies that marginalized groups, including women, children, and Roma communities, face higher risks of exposure due to physiological vulnerabilities, gender-normed occupational roles, and poverty-driven residential locations. The document highlights a severe lack of official environmental health data in BiH and advocates for disaggregated data collection and inclusive policy-making to protect vulnerable populations.

This policy brief examines the use of gypsum, an industrial by-product from phosphorus fertilizer extraction, as a soil amendment to reduce phosphorus run-off from agricultural fields into the Baltic Sea, specifically focusing on applications in Finland.

This document is a book of abstracts from the Science and Research Symposium, a segment of the first-ever Global Sustainable Blue Economy Conference (SBEC) held in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 26th to 28th, 2018. It compiles nearly seventy abstracts submitted by global scholars and practitioners, focusing on the role of scientific research, technology, and innovation in harnessing the Blue Economy sustainably. The abstracts are organized into thematic areas including sustainable resource use, climate action resilience, global connectivity and transportation, and sustainable cities, with an additional focus on human resource capacity.

This briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) examines the role of women environmental defenders in advancing transformative disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Nepal. It argues that while marginalized groups—including women, Indigenous peoples, and Dalits—are disproportionately vulnerable to disasters due to structural inequalities, they also possess critical traditional knowledge and strategies to mitigate risks. The document highlights how these defenders move beyond traditional DRR to address the root causes of vulnerability through legal action, capacity building, and multi-stakeholder collaboration, and provides recommendations for decision-makers to better support these efforts.

This guide from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) presents tools and resources designed to support participatory water management and the planning of community aqueducts, with a particular focus on integrating social dimensions of poverty and inequality into water resource management in Colombia.

This fact sheet describes the design and objectives of governance learning events conducted as part of the CADWAGO project, focusing on co-learning and the co-production of knowledge regarding water governance in the context of climate change.

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) details a pilot project evaluating the use of the SEI AI Reader, a tool based on large language models, to conduct systematic policy analysis. The project tested the tool's ability to extract data from policy evaluations and audits using a framework of 12 independent variables and 46 questions, focusing on climate policy implementation. The results indicate that with iterative prompt calibration, the AI can achieve high levels of accuracy and consistency, making it a viable method for processing large volumes of grey literature to identify drivers of successful policy outcomes.

The CASCADE (Community Safety Action for Supporting Climate Adaptation) project is a 24-month initiative funded by the European Union's DG ECHO to enhance resilience in the Baltic Sea Region by integrating civil protection and climate change adaptation expertise.

The CHAPOSA project investigated charcoal production and forest depletion in the supply areas of Lusaka (Zambia), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and Maputo (Mozambique) between 1989 and 1998. The report finds that woodland cover is reducing in all three regions due to charcoal production and agricultural expansion, with the most severe depletion occurring around Maputo. While charcoal provides a critical income source for the rural poor and an affordable energy source for the urban poor, the current system is largely unregulated, with state licensing and fee collection being highly ineffective. The report recommends a coordinated policy approach: enforcing fiscal systems to fund forest management, while simultaneously providing rural agricultural support and expanding urban electricity access to reduce dependence on charcoal.

This policy brief examines China's evolving role in global climate change mitigation and adaptation, highlighting the intersection of energy security, economic development, and international diplomacy. It details China's domestic targets for reducing energy intensity and increasing renewable energy, while analyzing the geopolitical tensions and trust deficits between China and developed nations like the U.S. and EU.

This policy brief by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines China's role in global greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting the tension between its rapid economic growth and the need for low-carbon development to meet global temperature targets.

This executive summary details a study by the Energy Research Institute (ERI) on China's energy and carbon emissions trajectories from 1998 to 2020. Using three scenarios—Ordinary Effort, Promoting Sustainability, and Green Growth—the report analyzes how different policy priorities regarding energy efficiency and supply structure impact economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions.