Despite spending most of our lives indoors, we have limited knowledge about indoor air pollutants’ sources, transformations, and fates and our exposure to them. The INGENIOUS project addresses this knowledge gap regarding indoor air pollution by studying …
Background The Kenya Vision 2030 aims to transform Kenya into, “a newly-industrializing, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens in a clean and secure environment”. The Vision 2030 fourth Medium Term Plan (MTP) 2023-2027 …
AIPP. (n.d.). The classroom of life. Retrieved October 14, 2024, from https://aippnet.org/the-classroom-of-life/ AIPP. (2011). Victims of development aggression: Indigenous Peoples in ASEAN. Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact. https://aippnet.org/wp-content/ …
The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) emphasise the need to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture (SDG2). They also highlight the need to shift …
Lower-income and marginalized communities in urban areas often have limited access to quality urban green spaces and their benefits. This is a growing concern in in low- and lower-middle-income countries where cities are expanding rapidly, and unplanned, …
Despite increasing recognition of climate risks, there is a lack of adequate adaptation responses, which the authors argue is partly due to how governance actors imagine the future. In this article, they contend that “imaginaries” – collective visions of …
Participants identified various drivers of food waste, including overbuying due to store promotions like “2 for 1” deals, social norms such as the “ick” factor of eating food past its “use by” date, being considered “stingy” when saving food and the …
Las transiciones implican cambios profundos, y el cambio siempre es un desafío para el ser humano. La crisis climática demuestra cómo el consumo desenfrenado a nivel personal y nacional genera consecuencias negativas para toda la sociedad. En América …
The risks posed by climate change and disasters have become more complex and uncertain; meanwhile, by contrast, the governmance of risks has become more compartmentalized. Recognizing the need for more holistic responses, the authors of this journal …
How can we ensure global food security and just transition with rising threats like climate change and geopolitical turmoil? What will the current political shift in the US mean for international efforts to combat climate change? On 4 February, the Mistra …
The authors investigate available cost estimates for a selection of NbS used for urban stormwater management in Sweden by scanning relevant databases and conducting a keyword search on municipal websites. Then, they map how NbS, co-benefits, costs, …
TG: So a very warm welcome and thank you for joining us in SEI’s Ground for Change podcast series, where we’re trying to bring a fresh and honest take on some of the most profound sustainability challenges of our time. Today, our focus is on land, and the …
COP30 and NDC submission – COP30 will serve as a telling inflection point for NDCs, revealing whether these updated goals will allow the world to course-correct back down to a 1.5°C or 2°C warming track when 1.5°C already appears breached, at least for …
“The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.” – Aldo Leopold Pose almost any of the major social, economic and environmental questions surfacing on the world’s freighted list. Ask how to foster economic sustainability …
Consider the arc of change unleashed by just one technological device. In 2007 a new gadget called the iPhone burst onto the market. In the 18 years since, the smart phone has reinvented the world. Almost 7 billion people hold in hand a device that …
The article focuses on the needs of a variety of user groups like decision-makers, educators and the general public, it addresses the demand for reliable, tailored and comprehensible climate information. A cross-national survey involving 343 users in five …
Abdelmagied, M., & Mpheshea, M. (2020). Ecosystem-based adaptation in the agriculture sector—A nature-based solution (NbS) for building the resilience of the food and agriculture sector to climate change. FAO, Rome. Atube, F., Malinga, G. M., Nyeko, M …
The extinction of species is a multifaceted phenomenon shaped by the complex interplay between biological and socio-cultural factors. Public and academic preferences for different species often play a direct or indirect role in influencing the conservation …
SEI Africa Centre Director Dr. Philip Osano and Dr. Romanus Opiyo, program leader of Sustainable Urbanization, have been supporting a project by WorldFish in the Lake Victoria region in Kenya. The project was led by Rahma Adam, Senior Scientist and Social- …
Numerous structural reforms of the international finance architecture have been proposed by different actors and institutions. These proposed reforms differ in the principles underpinning the need for the reform and the extent to which geopolitical power …
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