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Stockholm Environment Institute Press Releases

670 Press Releases

Published on January 16, 2025 - 20:51 GMT

Fighting Malaria Sustainably: An Investigation of the Innovation System for Biobased Malaria Repellents in East Africa

This paper investigates a biobased innovation system producing a catnip plant-based mosquito repellent developed to fight malaria in East Africa. This study adopts a technological innovation system (TIS) methodology. Previous studies on TIS in the global …

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Published on January 16, 2025 - 20:51 GMT

Water lost to evaporation from lower Snake River reservoirs

Historically, the Snake River was home to almost half of the total Chinook salmon and steelhead in the greater Columbia River watershed. However,current wild-origin returns of salmon to the Snake Basin are 0.1–2% of their historical abundance, with Snake …

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Published on January 16, 2025 - 03:12 GMT

Implementación de transiciones justas: lecciones de Sudáfrica

La transición del carbón es esencial para limitar el calentamiento global a muy por debajo de los 2°C sobre los niveles preindustriales, tal como se establece en el Acuerdo de París. Esta transición implica desafíos considerables para las regiones y países …

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Published on January 15, 2025 - 22:18 GMT

Launch of the UK Maximising Adaptation to Climate Change Hub

Please join SEI and its partners for this virtual event to launch the online information portal for the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) program – a new, landmark initiative aimed at addressing the urgent need for transformative climate …

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Published on January 15, 2025 - 10:19 GMT

SEI Currents – key trends shaping the global agenda in 2025 – online event 21 January

The insights leverage the expertise of SEI centres across five continents and its longstanding work on issues affecting climate, societies, sustainable development, and the environment. After opening remarks by Executive Director Måns Nilsson, Research …

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Published on January 15, 2025 - 10:19 GMT

Adaptation at Altitude: enhancing resilience from glaciers to seas

Convened as part of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation through the Adaptation at Altitude (A@A) Knowledge Network, this event will bring together stakeholders to exchange and showcase solutions for adapting to climate change in mountains, …

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Published on January 14, 2025 - 07:11 GMT

First UNCCRD Delta Summit 2025

The event targets the critical challenges threatening river deltas worldwide, emphasizing the need for urgent, collaborative action to protect these ecosystems. River deltas, home to over half a billion people, face severe threats from climate change …

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Published on January 9, 2025 - 16:25 GMT

LIFE: a metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions

The “persistence score” approach marked a welcome development for extinction risk calculation: the process combined data on species’ ecologies and land-cover, while also accounting for the fact that the impact of habitat loss is cumulative and non-linear. …

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Published on January 9, 2025 - 06:07 GMT

Tackling climate change and malnutrition in Asia’s school lunchrooms

If you’re like me and spend time on TikTok, you may have encountered the meticulous world of “bento moms.” This global phenomenon originally started with Japanese mothers carefully preparing bento school lunch boxes for their children featuring a …

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Published on January 8, 2025 - 05:13 GMT

With the benefit of hindsight: Currents 2024

Multilateral events and processes carried on in 2024, but its limitations were increasingly evident to participants and observers. UN negotiations confronted severe headwinds at key events intended to increase global commitments, actions and funding to …

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Published on January 1, 2025 - 01:03 GMT

Mengimplementasikan transisi berkeadilan: poin-poin penting dari pengalaman Afrika Selatan

Transisi dari batu bara sangat penting untuk membatasi pemanasan global hingga jauh di bawah 2°C derajat di atas tingkat pra-industri, sebagaimana yang diuraikan dalam Perjanjian Paris. Transisi ini menandakan tantangan yang cukup besar bagi wilayah dan …

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Published on December 31, 2024 - 20:16 GMT

Transisi energi berkeadilan dan batu bara di Indonesia: rekomendasi kebijakan untuk masa mendatang

Rekomendasi tersebut, selain bertujuan untuk memberikan masukan bagi kebijakan dan praktik transisi yang adil di Indonesia, juga dapat berguna bagi negara-negara lain di kawasan ini dan negara-negara lain yang sedang menghadapi transisi yang adil dalam …

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Published on December 31, 2024 - 00:51 GMT

Transisi berkeadilan dari batu bara di Kolombia: antara kebijakan dan kenyataan

Laporan singkat ini didasarkan pada dua laporan dari proyek Transisi Adil dari Batubara di Kolombia, Indonesia dan Afrika Selatan, yang didasarkan pada lokakarya, wawancara, analisis kuantitatif, dan tinjauan literatur yang dilakukan antara tahun 2022 dan …

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Published on December 30, 2024 - 15:01 GMT

Just sustainability transitions — From concept to practice

As Europe strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decouple economic growth from resource use, certain social groups and European regions will be disproportionately affected. It is therefore critical to ensure that transitions are fair. A failure to …

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Published on December 28, 2024 - 00:11 GMT

Land Use Transitions in the Lower Songkhram River Basin in Mekong and Its Impact on Carbon Sequestration Potentia

Investigating spatiotemporal transitions in land use and cover (LULC) and their impact on carbon storage is crucial for optimizing and developing policies that prioritize climate mitigation and sustainable development. Using the Land Change Modeler (LCM) …

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Published on December 27, 2024 - 19:19 GMT

Amplifying Stories of Agroecology Practices and Principles (ASAPP) – Nazaré’s Farm

This case study from the “Amplifying Stories of Agroecology Principles and Practices” (ASAPP) project series highlights the Panela Cheia Agroecological Farm in Itaberá, Brazil. Founded in 1995, the women-led COOPLANTAS cooperative transitioned to …

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Published on December 23, 2024 - 17:59 GMT

Mistra Geopolitics Director invited as an expert to UNDP in New York

The world faces human security challenges At the 30-year mark of the introduction of the Human Security concept, introduced by the UNDP’s Human Development Report (HDR), the world faces some of its greatest human security challenges in decades. Wars and …

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Published on December 23, 2024 - 12:55 GMT

Stakeholders’ perspectives on the effectiveness of the feed-in tariff and renewable energy auction policies in Kenya

The Kenyan government has introduced a series of policy reforms and formulated several strategic planning documents to advance the development and expansion of the renewable energy sector. FIT and REA are part of these policy instruments aimed at …

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Published on December 20, 2024 - 17:03 GMT

Standard hellre än särart? Förutsägbarhet och (o)förståelse i svenska biståndsrelationer – en enkätstudie

Den här rapporten redovisar resultat från en enkätstudie genomförd 2023 av tillitsmönster i biståndets organisering. Enkäten fokuserar på tre typer av svenska biståndsorganisationer: civilsamhällesorganisationer, myndigheter och forsknings-organisationer, …

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Published on December 20, 2024 - 02:08 GMT

Examining the role of risk mitigation and transfer for renewable energy investments: case studies in West and Central Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the greatest need for additional energy to meet the demands of its growing economies and populations. Under any scenario of development and economic growth in the area, electricity consumption is bound to increase …

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