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This policy brief by the Stockholm Environment Institute outlines a mitigation scenario for the EU27 to meet its 'fair share' of the global climate challenge. It argues that Europe can achieve a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and nearly 90% by 2050 through domestic action, including radical energy efficiency improvements and a shift to renewables, while simultaneously fulfilling international financial obligations to assist developing nations.

This policy brief by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) evaluates the role of carbon offsetting programs in climate policy. It discusses the potential for offsets to reduce mitigation costs and provide sustainability benefits, while warning of risks such as non-additionality, leakage, and permanence. The document highlights significant variability in how different protocols quantify offsets and argues for the standardization of these protocols to ensure market integrity.

This fact sheet from the Stockholm Environment Institute outlines the challenges facing smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically regarding food security, soil fertility, and water management. It proposes an integrated systems approach combining water harvesting, conservation agriculture, and 'productive sanitation'—the reuse of human excreta as fertilizer—to close yield gaps and build climate resilience.

This final report describes the activities and outcomes of the CIRCLE ERA-Net project, which aimed to establish a Nordic research network focused on local climate adaptation and mitigation within a multilevel governance framework. Through three workshops held in Norway, Sweden, and Finland between 2008 and 2009, the project explored the determinants of adaptive capacity, the role of national and international policies, and the importance of communication and stakeholder engagement in local contexts.

This briefing introduces the Framework for Integrating Rights and Equality (FIRE), a six-dimensional tool designed to help disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate resilience (CR) decision-makers integrate human rights and gender equality into laws, policies, and practices. The document details the application of FIRE within the Building Resilience through Inclusive and Climate-adaptive Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia-Pacific (BRDR) Program, specifically focusing on risk assessments, land-use planning, and emergency preparedness and response.

This fact sheet introduces the Framework for Integrating Rights and Equality (FIRE), developed by the Building Resilience through Inclusive and Climate-adaptive Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia-Pacific (BRDR) Program. The framework provides a six-dimensional approach to integrate human rights and gender equality into disaster risk reduction (DRR) laws, policies, and practices from national to local levels.

This fact sheet describes the CREST initiative, a partnership between the IOM and SEI investigating the links between climate change, environmental degradation, and international labour migration in Asia. It highlights how environmental stressors increase vulnerability to forced labour, particularly in the agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and construction sectors. The project aims to inform policymakers and businesses on how to protect migrant workers and maximize migration as an adaptation strategy, specifically focusing on agricultural supply chains in corridors involving Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

This project brochure describes an initiative funded by FONERWA and coordinated by ARCOS, in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and other partners, to promote climate resilience in the Akagera Basin of Rwanda. Running from October 1, 2015, to September 30, 2018, the project uses a 'Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus' approach to analyze the interdependencies between these sectors to guide sustainable development and policy decisions.

This policy brief by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines the impact of ground-level ozone (O3) on agricultural productivity and food security in South Asia. It argues that O3 is a significant threat to crop yields, potentially posing a more immediate risk to food security than climate change, and calls for international cooperation to reduce precursor emissions and improve crop breeding.

This report analyzes whether Sweden provides its 'fair share' of international climate finance. It concludes that a definitive answer is impossible because 'climate finance' and 'fair share' lack globally agreed definitions. While Sweden provides significant funds, most are integrated into its Official Development Assistance (ODA), meaning it provides very little 'new and additional' finance. The report suggests Sweden could lead by improving reporting transparency and defining its own ambitious fair share targets.

This briefing summarizes a dialogue session hosted by SIANI and EcoAdapt on 7 December 2014 as part of the Global Landscapes Forum. The session focused on governance strategies for 'frontier landscapes'—remote areas characterized by high rates of forest clearance, land use change, and social fluidity—to foster sustainability and connect bottom-up solutions with top-down policies.

This fact sheet outlines the potential for reducing emissions in the Baltics, Poland, and Ukraine by scaling up ten existing climate solutions, which could lead to significant emission reductions and cost savings by 2030.

This guidance note provides a framework for grantees of the Strategic Collaborative Fund (SCF2) to integrate human rights and gender equality into the design, implementation, and evaluation of events focused on sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.

This delivery report describes a matchmaking workshop held on 4 May 2021 by TEM – Lund University as part of the sWASH&grow project. The event aimed to explore how sustainable healthcare infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries can serve as a leverage point for implementing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) solutions and fostering sustainable community development.

This policy brief from the Stockholm Environment Institute examines the public health and environmental crises caused by the reliance of over three billion people on traditional biomass for household energy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

This report outlines a strategic plan for the sustainable energy transition of the Galápagos Islands from 2020 to 2040, aiming for 'Zero Fossil Fuels'. It analyzes demand and supply scenarios across four sectors: residential, commercial/public, land transport, and maritime transport. The study proposes various technological substitutions—such as induction stoves, solar water heaters, electric vehicles, and renewable energy generation (solar, wind, geothermal, and CSP)—to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on imported fuels. It evaluates the cost-benefit of these measures and the impact of existing energy subsidies on the transition's viability.

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 policy brief examines the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of sugarcane and jatropha biofuel production in Malawi, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Using an ecosystem services framework, the study analyzes trade-offs between biofuel feedstock production and other services like food security, carbon sequestration, and poverty alleviation, while also exploring the feasibility of ethanol for household cooking in urban Mozambique.

This guide, commissioned by the Environmental Board and published by the Stockholm Environment Institute in December 2020, provides instructions for implementing Article 6.4 of the Habitats Directive in Estonia. It details the process for granting exceptions to Natura 2000 assessments when a project or strategic planning document (SPD) is deemed essential for imperative reasons of overriding public interest (IROPI/AETP), despite causing adverse effects on a protected site.

This January 2021 briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines coordination and accountability mechanisms within Kenya's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. It identifies a gap between active group-specific platforms and dormant broad-based forums, notes a prevalence of 'soft accountability' lacking sanctions, and analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sector collaboration and financial transparency.