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Stockholm Environment Institute Press Releases

673 Press Releases

Published on February 18, 2025 - 18:07 GMT

Exploring conditions for designing citizen observatories in Sri Lanka: the case of air quality in rural areas

Citizen observatories (COs) are socio-technical initiatives that seek to engage citizens interested in environmental issues via digital applications to gather ecological data, drawing on participatory approaches. While CO projects conducted in higher- …

Distribution channels: Environment
Published on February 18, 2025 - 09:55 GMT

SEI expert gives evidence at UK Parliament nitrogen inquiry

The growing threat of nitrogen pollution Nitrogen is a fundamental element of life on Earth, making up 78% of the air we breathe in its inert, harmless form. It must be fixed into reactive forms to be of use to plants and is a key component of fertilizers …

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Published on February 17, 2025 - 16:44 GMT

Hydrometeorological resilience assessment of interconnected critical infrastructures

Undertaking systemic risk assessments of critical infrastructures (CIs) is necessary to improve understanding, mitigate impacts, and increase resilience to cascading effects of intensifying hydrometeorological hazards. This paper presents a novel …

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Published on February 17, 2025 - 10:54 GMT

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Stockholm Environment Institute is an international non-profit research institute that tackles environment and sustainable development challenges. We empower partners to meet these challenges through cutting-edge research, knowledge, tools and capacity …

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Published on February 14, 2025 - 10:08 GMT

Positioning bioeconomy to spur Kenya Vision 2030 goals

This workshop brought together 71 stakeholders from Kenya’s agriculture, energy and waste sectors to explore challenges and opportunities for bioeconomy development within the private sector. Discussions focused on key factors influencing the participation …

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Published on February 14, 2025 - 10:08 GMT

Living Lab offers new approach to mangrove rehabilitation in the Caribbean

The Resilient Coasts – Caribbean Sea project, funded by the Swedish Postcode Lottery Foundation, began in spring 2024. It is a collaboration between eight countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, in partnership with SEI. The project uses a …

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Published on February 14, 2025 - 10:08 GMT

Time to fix the biodiversity leak

Biodiversity leakage is undermining global efforts to halt biodiversity loss. There are concerns that conservation initiatives in regions like Europe and China are causing production shortfalls in sectors such as timber. These are then driving land …

Distribution channels: Environment
Published on February 13, 2025 - 15:50 GMT

How innovation led to a catnip plant-based mosquito repellent to fight malaria in eastern Africa

The project also had a strong legitimacy-building function, in that the project was accepted as fair and rightful by the local community and by Burundian government authorities. The project built its legitimacy by creating jobs and by including local …

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Published on February 12, 2025 - 02:05 GMT

Replacing one polluting sector with another? The perils of shifting from coal to livestock in Cesar, Colombia

The global agrifood system faces significant challenges to its sustainability and its contribution to climate change is widely recognized. Notably, emissions from livestock represent the largest portion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the global …

Distribution channels: Environment
Published on February 11, 2025 - 19:21 GMT

Illegal deforestation in Mato Grosso: how loopholes in implementing Brazil’s Forest Code endanger the soy sector

Brazil’s Forest Code (FC) is a landmark law that, despite dating back to the 1930s, has low compliance. Illegal deforestation continues, and millions of hectares that were set to be reforested remain degraded. Although sector agreements such as the Amazon …

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Published on February 11, 2025 - 12:08 GMT

Competition and climate policy in the steel transition: comparing costs and subsidies in the US and the EU

The nexus of climate policy and “competitiveness”—how to transition to clean energy while ensuring a competitive economy—is a concern on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States and the European Union, there has been an attempt to resolve the issue …

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Published on February 10, 2025 - 20:31 GMT

العراق في دائرة التركيز: أدوات معهد ستوكهولم للبيئة، والتدريب لتعزيز صمود الموارد المائية

يساهم معهد ستوكهولم للبيئة في دعم جهود العراق لمواجهة تحدياته المائية من خلال العمل عن كثب مع وزارة الموارد المائية العراقية. وبدعم من مشروع الابتكار المائي لتعزيز الاستدامة والصمود (WICER) المموّل من الوكالة السويدية للتعاون الإنمائي الدولي (Sida) ، …

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Published on February 10, 2025 - 20:31 GMT

Focus Iraq: SEI’s water tools and training enhance water resilience

Iraq faces significant water challenges due to its dry climate, rising temperatures and upstream water diversions, which threaten the country’s access to water. As demand increases, supply struggles to keep up, leading to significant shortages. This …

Distribution channels: Environment
Published on February 10, 2025 - 17:09 GMT

Integrating air quality into transition plans: best practices from the Alliance for Clean Air

The transport and logistics sector plays a vital role in global trade and the movement of goods, yet its operations significantly contribute to greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. While efforts to decarbonise this sector are gaining momentum, the …

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Published on February 10, 2025 - 12:24 GMT

Strategic vision for Ukraine’s green transition: paving the path through collaboration with Sweden

Current situation in Ukraine Despite the ongoing war with Russia, which necessitates that defense remains Ukraine’s top priority, there is also a critical need to invest in areas such as the green transition – a shift toward a sustainable, low-carbon …

Distribution channels: Environment
Published on February 10, 2025 - 12:24 GMT

Las narrativas sobre la producción de petróleo y gas en Colombia y Nigeria después del Acuerdo de París

Introducción Alcanzar los objetivos climáticos mundiales exige una transformación fundamental de los sistemas energéticos que siguen dependiendo en gran medida de la utilización de combustibles fósiles. Los científicos han calculado que, para cumplir los …

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Published on February 10, 2025 - 12:24 GMT

The economics of soil organic carbon: multi-benefits from sustainable land management for smallholders in Western Kenya

This study examines the economic impact of adopting SLM practices—specifically Conservation Agriculture (CA) and Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM)—on household income and carbon sequestration potential among smallholder farmers in Siaya County, …

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Published on February 7, 2025 - 19:03 GMT

Gore capitalism and necropolitics in Brazil’s malgovernance of the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive human suffering just as much as it heightened pre-existing socio-economic and political issues. Brazil, where over 700,000 people perished, offers one of the starkest cases as Black and Indigenous lives were …

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Published on February 7, 2025 - 19:03 GMT

What happened to the driver? Implications of electrification, digitalization, and automation on truck and taxi drivers

Electrification, digitalization and automation are three trends driving the low-carbon transition of the transport sector. For the transition to be just, it is essential to ensure that those affected by these trends view the changes they bring as …

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Published on February 6, 2025 - 19:41 GMT

LIFE at the edges of extinction

Produced by an international research team, the LIFE metric helps confront the challenge of human-driven habitat loss and its severe impacts on biodiversity. By combining existing methodologies with powerful new computing technology, the team assessed how …

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