Middle East and North Africa

SEI Currents 2024

Event on 17 January / What risks and opportunities are surfacing as we begin 2024? What issues warrant greater attention? Tune in as expert panelists offer their perspectives.

Press briefing 31 October: SEI experts present key topics ahead of COP28

Media advisory / At a press briefing, SEI experts will highlight the key topics ahead of the international climate change negotiations to be held in Dubai.

How to foster “just adaptation”

Past event / Watch the recording of the webinar, which features key experts discussing how to foster "just adaptation" at a time when climate risks are escalating.

Demand-side actors in agricultural supply chain sustainability: an assessment of motivations for action, implementation challenges, and research frontiers

Journal article / This article examines the limitations of current demand-side action on agricultural supply chain sustainability to understand how further progress can be made.

Potentials and barriers to land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs)—a review

Journal article / This study presents a detailed classification and analysis of the barriers to the adoption and scaling up of land-based mitigation technologies and practices.

Climate-resilient sanitation: three takeaways from World Water Week 2023

Perspective / Rising awareness of climate-resilient sanitation could lead to unlocking knowledge on causes and effects, eventually unlocking access to climate financing.

Global Stocktake and the SDG mid-term review as opportunities for integration

Journal article / This paper emphasizes merging climate action and sustainable development for potent NDCs and SDG progress.

SEI calls on the SDG Summit: it is time to lead with science to accelerate the Global Goals

Media advisory / Ahead of the 2023 SDG Summit in New York, SEI researchers present recommendations to guide policy to accelerate progress on the SDGs.

What scientists need to do to accelerate progress on the SDGs

Journal article / Drilling down into why the UN Sustainable Development Goals are so hard to achieve, and showing policymakers pathways to follow, will help the planet and people